Straight Talk on Fentanyl

By Laurence M. Vance

 

The libertarian position on hard drugs, including fentanyl, is the same as the libertarian position on marijuana, and is really quite simple.

There should be no laws at any level of government for any reason regarding the buying, selling, growing, processing, transporting, manufacturing, advertising, using, possessing, or “trafficking” of any drug for any reason. All drug laws should be repealed, all government agencies devoted to fighting the war on drugs should be abolished, and the war on drugs should be ended completely and immediately. There should be a free market in drugs without any government interference in the form of regulation, oversight, restrictions, taxing, rules, or licensing. And, I say again, this includes fentanyl.

Drug warriors disagree, especially in Colorado.

Fatal fentanyl overdoses have jumped fivefold in Colorado. This has state officials debating on how to solve the problem, “including whether to roll back some of the state’s more lenient laws on drug possession.”

 

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