Finally, something the Dems and GOP can agree on…
According to a report from The New York Post, new legislation — S-5439 in the state Senate and A-5914 in the Assembly – would make xylazine, aka tranq, a schedule III drug, putting it on par with other potentially-dangerous tranquilizers such as ketamine, according to the bills.
Xylazine was originally created for use on large animals, like horses.
Republican assemblyman Brian Maher predicts the parties will come together to push back on the deadly street drug.
“I imagine both our parties will get together on this one,” Maher recently told The Post. “Too many people are just being killed and overdosing [on fentanyl and xylazine].”
“It’s got to be a priority for all of us,” Maher said. “And I would imagine that if you had this conversation with every single legislator, they’d all agree.”
From The New York Post:
Dealers desperate to cut their drugs with cheap additives have laced their supplies with so much tranq that medical professionals are warning users that the lesion-causing killer even lurks in mainstream party drugs like cocaine.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration has found that about 15% of all drugs tested in its northeast regional laboratory include xylazine, Frank Tarentino, the special agent in charge of the DEA’s New York Division, recently told The Post.
Of those, 85% contained a viciously lethal mix of xylazine and the synthetic opioid fentanyl, Tarentino added.
The New York State Senate tried to tackle the burgeoning crisis about seven years ago, when a bill declaring tranq a controlled substance unanimously sailed through the Republican-controlled chamber.
But the measure died in the Democrat-controlled Assembly, as did a similar bill that cleared the Senate the following year.
More over at The New York Post:
Lawmakers consider tranq bills that would make flesh-rotting drug a controlled substance in New York https://t.co/IhLDAfUyIt pic.twitter.com/4awxgfe4pP
— New York Post (@nypost) August 7, 2023
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