5/24/2023 0 Comments Carl's Christmas by Alexandra Day![]() The committee vote Tuesday came despite the impassioned pleas of families carrying pictures of children killed by fentanyl poisoning. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, in rejecting another bill, SB 44, the latest iteration of Alexandra’s Law. That distinction - that the committee was not creating a new law or new penalties - was stressed by committee member Sen. ![]() Marie Alvarado-Gill, D-Jackson, would expand an existing law, adding fentanyl to a list of less harmful drugs that cannot be possessed while having a firearm. ![]() On Tuesday, April 25, the Senate Public Safety Committee blinked slightly by approving SB 226, which would make it a felony to possess fentanyl with a loaded, operable firearm. The graveyard for such legislation has been the Senate and Assembly public safety committees, which have repeatedly rejected bills that would result in more incarceration of fentanyl dealers. In 2021, fentanyl killed 5,722 people in California, many of whom thought they were taking prescription medications or other drugs. ![]() See: Legislative effort to curtail trafficking fentanyl through social media stallsįor years now, law enforcement, prosecutors and families of fentanyl victims have pleaded for harsher penalties for dealers of the synthetic opioid, which is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. The message from Sacramento has been clear: powerful state lawmakers have no appetite for a return to the War on Drugs, even as a way to combat the deadly fentanyl epidemic. ![]()
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