Dozens of parents gave agonizing testimony at the Colorado State Capitol Tuesday as lawmakers took up a sweeping bill aimed at addressing the fentanyl crisis.
– Dozens of parents gave agonizing testimony at the Colorado State Capitol Tuesday as lawmakers took up a sweeping bill aimed at addressing theSince 2019, deadly fentanyl overdoses in Colorado have jumped 260%. One of the cases that pushed the emergency into the spotlight was in Commerce City.when they used what they thought was cocaine. It turned out to be pure fentanyl.
Parents said their child was poisoned with fentanyl and prosecutors could do little to hold the killer responsible.The bill by Colorado House Speaker Alec Garnett and state Rep. Mike Lynch is aimed at changing that. It makes distribution of even small amounts of fentanyl a felony whether the person knows its fentanyl or not and requires mandatory prison for distribution resulting in death, depending on the amount of fentanyl sold. District attorneys testified that the bill doesn’t go far enough.
Under the bill, possession of 4 grams or less of fentanyl remains a misdemeanor. Two milligrams is deadly.“We simply cannot go on treating fentanyl — this deadly poison — the same as, frankly, a shoplifting ticket,” said Kellner.
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