Permanently classifying fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs will be a top priority for U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio if Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year and Jordan becomes House Judiciary Committee chairman
will be a top priority for U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio if Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year and Jordan becomes House Judiciary Committee chairman.to seek information on how the drugs’ temporary classification as Schedule I drugs that have no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse has assisted the fight against the opioid crisis.
The DEA temporarily put fentanyl-related substances on its Schedule I list starting in 2018, and has renewed its placement on the list several times. The drugs are classified as “fentanyl-related substances” because traffickers often make small chemical changes to the fentanyl versions they produce in order to expand their profits and avoid prosecution for producing fentanyl.
Civil rights and criminal justice stakeholders have expressed concerns that class-wide scheduling could result in convictions for use of substances that aren’t harmful, deliver long sentences for trace amounts of the drugs and exacerbate racial disparities in federal sentencingThe report said that offenses prosecuted under class-wide scheduling can trigger a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years for 10 grams of drugs or 10 years for 100 grams of a drug mixture containing a detectable amount of...
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