the whole Fentanyl issue is easy to solve - death penalty for those who sell more than 50g of Fentanyl.
> Oh, well then you're just as naive as these guys who think that capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day-to-day lives under the possibility of execution
Where is 50g of fentanyl even being sold? That’s a huge amount. Would this be a deterrent for sellers in China or other countries outside of the US?
the question is how to make sure all sellers, not just kingpins, would be living under the possibility of execution.
> Would this be a deterrent for sellers in China or other countries outside of the US?
yes. that worked pretty well.
Did it? If so, where is the fentanyl in the US being manufactured and sold into the US from?
https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/blog/the-f...
rather than blaming others for all these problems, maybe it is time to clean up the mess from within.
Say you make a cop mad and he plants 51g on you. Dead? That’s cool?
that itself is another problem. if the system can make it extremely risky to sell such deadly drugs, its price will have to go up significantly, forcing many many people to stop abusing it.
you won't see that many fentanyl deaths if it costs say $10k per gram on the street. sadly, it is dirt cheap now, at only $100-200 per gram, people are dying.
The penalties are already pretty big for selling just a few lethal doses.. having 50g+ is enough to blight an entire region.
By all accounts, fentanyl is more addictive and potent drug than opium. The conclusion is obvious: the price for America to kick its fentanyl habit will be even higher. It's a matter of time. :(
Either way, something tells me this will be a moot point for the foreseeable future. We're still laboring under the stupidity of marijuana prohibition in almost half the country.
I think the parent's idea of the death penalty is (Sorry parent) dumb but I don't think that means we should act like there's nothing wrong here.
I mean there are already people selling ethanol to junkies. So why would changing it to fentanyl make any difference.
If you don't have a choice then you do things that will hurt you (assume you have some empathy) because you don't have a choice.
Who wants that job though? Who wants to see other people in a job that requires them to hurt people? I'm not saying there aren't people who make their living doing that but either they have, their ignorant of the harm they do or they don't care about hurting people; in any of those cases I feel sorry for them.