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Home Front: Politix
House Democrats Block Crackdown on Fentanyl as Over 100K Americans Die Every Year from Overdoses, Poisonings
2022-10-02
[Breitbart] Even as more than 100,000 Americans are dying from drug overdoses and poisonings every year, many linked to fentanyl, House Democrats have blocked a plan that would crack down on the deadly substance flowing almost exclusively from the United States-Mexico border into American communities.

This week, 220 House Democrats blocked consideration for Rep. Michelle Fischbach’s (R-MN) Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.

Such a change would make it permanently illegal to sell fentanyl-related substances.

In April, House Democrats blocked consideration of similar legislation that would have cracked down on fentanyl-related substances. Consistent blockage of bills to combat fentanyl overdoses and poisonings comes as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials have warned parents to carry Naloxone in case their child is overdosing on fentanyl.
A pattern. Time to move the effort to the states, and those states that care can spend the money, while those that don’t can bury dead drug users that moved there for the high.
The warning is in response to concerns that the Mexican drug cartels, trafficking most of all of the China-manufactured fentanyl into the U.S., are targeting children by packaging tens of thousands of fentanyl pills in Skittles and Nerds candy bags along with vape pens.

Most recently, in Phoenix, Arizona, law enforcement investigators seized nearly a million fentanyl pills in a stash house. Just two milligrams of fentanyl can kill one person.

Related: RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Bashes Joe Biden, Democrats over Politicizing ‘Rainbow Fentanyl'
Posted by:Skidmark

#12  It seems like the only thing keeping Hunter from being part of that statistic is his Secret Service detail. Those guys have got to be going through a full Devon station every time they leave his premises.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-10-02 19:00  

#11  With nearly every agenda item, Democrats prove that they are literally "The Party of Death Murder".

This is more accurate.
Posted by: Woozle the Prolific2454   2022-10-02 18:09  

#10  @#7 - Me, neither, but then there's this:

DEA Warns of Brightly-colored Fentanyl Use to Target Young Americans
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-10-02 12:25  

#9  #7 Wait til it's in the water supply. Well, I mean, it already is, but wait til it hits LD 100 levels.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-10-02 12:24  

#8  With nearly every agenda item, Democrats prove that they are literally "The Party of Death".
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-10-02 11:10  

#7  I for one have no fear of fentanyl jumping in my mouth or up my nose.
Posted by: jpal   2022-10-02 10:36  

#6  When I say ruling clique, I am not just talking about democrats.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-10-02 10:08  

#5  I’ve been saying it for a long time that the democrats are in bed with the cartels
Why else do they advocate for open borders demonize our Border Patrol and block legislation designed to control the problems
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2022-10-02 10:06  

#4  /\ Let us not forget to mention the money generated for the ruling clique from the so-called legal drugs.

[Am I being too harsh?]
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-02 08:18  

#3  Not one crumb of illegal drugs is sold in the USA that does not generate money for the ruling clique. Not just at the top, but at the statehouse, the courthouse and the cop shoppe in your hometown.

You can thank them all.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-10-02 07:20  

#2  Feature not bug?
Posted by: George Clolumble2624   2022-10-02 01:06  

#1  This article alone should tell you who we're dealing with in Washington.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-02 01:06  

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