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by seanmcdirmid 1052 days ago
Fentanyl is popular because it so cheap (a large Asian country produces it cheaply). If it was taxed anywhere near the damage it causes, it would be too expensive to buy, and smuggling it in via Mexico would still occur.
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Make other aspects expensive. Drug crimes and related crimes get huge penalties. No medical treatment if you have certain drugs in your system. Make it so the cost of using fentanyl is so high that there is some deterrence.
Half the people in this thread are saying they don't want drug deterrence. IMHO I'm with you though.
> No medical treatment if you have certain drugs in your system

Have you thought this through? This is beyond evil. Same energy as "no organ transplant if you didn't get the vaccine"