re: Louisiana lawmakers advance proposal to mandate life sentences for fentanyl dealers.

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I mean you kinda proving my point… you can’t overdose on fentanyl unless you doing hard drugs… this a transaction between two non-law abiding citizens… dealers offer users no guarantee

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Not the case had a friends son take what he thought was a Xanax purchased from a classmate and it killed the kid. The classmate was charged with second degree murder

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I mean you kinda proving my point… you can’t overdose on fentanyl unless you doing hard drugs… this a transaction between two non-law abiding citizens… dealers offer users no guarantee

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Except there's nothing stopping a dealer from lacing it into anything. The problem with fentanyl is that just touching it can be lethal.

A lethal dose of heroin vs a lethal dose of fentanyl


As the old saying goes, "familiarity breeds contempt". The more fentanyl is used, the greater the eventuality that you'll see some asshat sprinkling it onto brownies, etc. Because it's so ridiculously powerful, even if someone doesn't die from the contact they are going to have all sorts of problems.

I'm a big proponent of legalization (caveated with no government funds for addiction centers, because if you think you are responsible enough to get on drugs then you are going to have to be responsible enough to get off of them), but fentanyl is a whole different ballgame due to its insane potency.

I'ld be fine with the death penalty for anyone caught dealing anything laced with fentanyl (except if they turn on their supplier, who is then caught with fentanyl themselves). It's so ridiculously deadly, so ridiculously addictive and the money involved is such a huge incentive to deal it that I really don't think anything less than an equally ridiculously severe penalty is going to do much to deter it.