Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who voted no, took to the House floor to remind her colleagues of the bill's unfair sentencing consequences. “We should not forget that over 78 percent of people charged with a fentanyl trafficking offense are people of color.”https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/1222678181511155712 …
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley criticized the bill's criminalization of people who are not trafficking fentanyl and who need treatment, not prison terms. “We must have a deliberate conversation abou...the mandatory minimums embedded in this bill.”https://medium.com/@RepPressley/public-health-is-public-safety-cdd77da1b4aa …
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A coalition of advocates expressed similar concerns in a letter to House leadership earlier this week, warning that the bill would "exacerbate already disturbing trends in federal drug prosecutions and incarceration levels." http://www.drugpolicy.org/sites/default/files/house-coalition-letter-re-classwide-ban_0.pdf?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=301a85a7-b757-4384-b308-4ba522b5790bf …
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Data shows that three-quarters of those sentenced for fentanyl trafficking are Black or Latinx—even though research available about the demographics of people who sell drugs shows that white people are more likely to do so than Black or Latinx people.https://theappeal.org/fentanyl-schedule-1-drug-war/ …
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Time and time again, the War on Drugs leads to the same results. “Just like crack cocaine, those who will lose under the fentanyl policies currently being advanced in Congress are Black and Brown people,” the ACLU's Kanya Bennett told The Appeal.https://theappeal.org/fentanyl-schedule-1-drug-war/ …
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