Penalties for fentanyl crimes should be as dire as the drug’s impact
To the editor:
Our government has closed its eyes on how to control the fentanyl drug problem. Every day we are losing our youth to this drug. It’s even being made here in the U.S. I feel one way to control the rising use of this drug is to take the profit away from the dealers by heavy fines, prison sentences, property seized, etc.
It’s time to make fentanyl punishments harsher — to possess, deal, manufacture, smuggle into our country. Prosecute at the federal level. This would free up the lower courts from the burden of fentanyl cases. Long prison sentences, no deals, just hard time. Cause a death because of a sale, life sentence.
Contract your local congressional representative and senator to sponsor a bill to attack fentanyl.
Gary Bongers
Cape Coral