Touching fentanyl won’t kill you. Why won’t cops and policymakers get the memo?

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Touching fentanyl won’t kill you. Why won’t cops and policymakers get the memo?
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At this moment, three bills — one in Florida (SB 718), one in West Virginia (HB 5319) and the other in Tennessee (SB 1754) — are making their way through their respective state legislatures. All three will allow for a felony charge to be levied against people who expose a first responder to fentanyl or a fentanyl analog, such as carfentanil or remifentanil.

All Republican states. They sure never miss an opportunity to incarcerate and kill the poor.

Felonies all over the place. There are more reasonable charges if the point isn't just to destroy as many lives as possible.

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