On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to extend the Drug Enforcement Administration’s ban on fentanyl—a proposal that harm reduction advocates say is misguided and regressive, and perpetuates the ineffective, racist war on drugs.https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/01/30/world/asia/29reuters-usa-congress-drugs.html …
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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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