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>It is exactly because you get a worse sentence for higher quantities that drug dealers have optimised to get the strongest per gram drug. Yeah, that's why the

>It is exactly because you get a worse sentence for higher quantities that drug dealers have optimised to get the strongest per gram drug. Yeah, that's why there is pressure to increase sentences for the fentanyl dealers. If you have tougher sentences for the more dangerous drugs, it makes people more likely to use the less dangerous ones.

Clubber 9y ago
How anyone can believe that harsher sentences will curb drug use in this day and age with 50 years of evidence to the contrary is beyond me.
- cpncrunch 9y ago
  You're probably right. However the other question is whether dealers should be help criminally liable for fentanyl-related deaths. In essence they are selling something that they know will likely kill some of their customers.
  - toyg 9y ago
    Like they didn't know already, even before fentanyl. Dealers don't care for the long run, they want their cash today and screw anything else. A few fiends die, tough; someone else will come along soon enough. And if you're caught, 5 or 10 years is an immaterial difference: prison is just part of the lifestyle, doing two 5-yr or one 10-yr is the same.
  - Clubber 9y ago
    I mean it depends on how far up the chain you want go. Lets say from the source to the buyer, it goes through 5 people. Which put fentanyl in it? Chances are, anyone else in the chain didn't know. Of course the problem with that is you end up executing some guy who had no idea there was fentanyl in there while the guy who actually put it in there continues business as usual. I mean I find it hard to believe dealers want their clients to die off, they want steady revenue stream just like every other business. If you want to save lives, the way the US does it obviously isn't working. I don't think it's their objective. It seems the main objective for the drug war in US is to give jobs to the FOP and give the government an easier job by eroding liberties, and to make headlines for politicians trying to get reelected.

Clubber 9y ago

How anyone can believe that harsher sentences will curb drug use in this day and age with 50 years of evidence to the contrary is beyond me.

cpncrunch 9y ago
You're probably right. However the other question is whether dealers should be help criminally liable for fentanyl-related deaths. In essence they are selling something that they know will likely kill some of their customers.
- toyg 9y ago
  Like they didn't know already, even before fentanyl. Dealers don't care for the long run, they want their cash today and screw anything else. A few fiends die, tough; someone else will come along soon enough. And if you're caught, 5 or 10 years is an immaterial difference: prison is just part of the lifestyle, doing two 5-yr or one 10-yr is the same.
- Clubber 9y ago
  I mean it depends on how far up the chain you want go. Lets say from the source to the buyer, it goes through 5 people. Which put fentanyl in it? Chances are, anyone else in the chain didn't know. Of course the problem with that is you end up executing some guy who had no idea there was fentanyl in there while the guy who actually put it in there continues business as usual. I mean I find it hard to believe dealers want their clients to die off, they want steady revenue stream just like every other business. If you want to save lives, the way the US does it obviously isn't working. I don't think it's their objective. It seems the main objective for the drug war in US is to give jobs to the FOP and give the government an easier job by eroding liberties, and to make headlines for politicians trying to get reelected.