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Originally Posted by you&me
It seems that battle against production may never be won, but what about a focus on distribution? Make dealing drugs just not worth it... Like, get caught selling fentanyl and get 1 year in prison for every pill.
I know we're trying to cut down on prison populations, but I have to imagine if you make the penalty severe enough, rather than end up in jail, most dealers just don't do it in the first place.
I'm sure this sounds incredibly naive and will be shot down by those more familiar than me...
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The issue is that Fentanyl is so easy to get right now, and the demand is always there. Someone will supply it. You can order it online to a PO Box. It's not like heroin or cocaine, where you need an intricate network of criminals.
If push comes to shove, the addicts themselves will order it.
Also, as it stands now, penalties for non-addicts dealing Fentanyl are already quite high.
In the USA, the average sentence for knowingly trafficking Fentanyl is 74 months:
https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/f...tanyl_FY18.pdf
In Canada, the first time sentence begins at 18 months, which is many times higher than other drugs:
https://www.provincialcourt.bc.ca/en...ews-15-08-2017
The profit from Fentanyl is just so high and the barriers to entry are so low that no matter what you do to deter dealing, it's going to happen.