Bill Advances Despite Strong Opposition from Major Criminal Justice and Conservative Groups; Advocates: Tough Sentences for Heroin Didn’t Stop the Opioid Crisis and Won’t Work for New Drugs
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 13, 2017. The House Judiciary Committee advanced legislation yesterday that greatly expands the penalties for new drugs and gives Attorney General Sessions unilateral new powers to schedule drugs. Opponents warned that the legislation is a counterproductive approach to the opioid crisis…
