Experts say Joe Biden’s laws worsened the opioid epidemic in the very places he says he can win in 2020
, the nonprofit organization formed to run the location, preemptively acting to prevent the overdose prevention site from opening. To block it, the law they cited was an old provision of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, known as the “crack-house statute,” which Biden co-sponsored.1986 Emergency Crack Control Act
The promoter, the guy who owned the building [where the rave happened], I’d put the son of a gun in jail!”Far from simply being a relic of the crack era, Biden expanded the statute in the early 2000s by authoring the Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstasy, or RAVE Act, in response to fears about the use of MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, at raves.
that owners and operators of overdose prevention sites would be in violation of Biden’s crack-house statute. The operators of those facilities would obviously know that drugs are being consumed within its walls––that’s the whole point—and as such, would be criminally liable. Violating the crack-house statute is punishable by hefty fines and imprisonment.
Len Bias was a college basketball star who died in 1986 from a cocaine-related seizure two days after the Boston Celtics selected him with the second overall pick in the NBA draft. The nation was shocked, and politicians felt pressure to do something, culminating in a new federal law that imposed life imprisonment on any person who distributed drugs resulting in a fatal overdose.
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