A federal bankruptcy court judge on Friday said he would approve OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s latest deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids that includes some money for thousands of victims of the epidemic.
The deal overseen by US bankruptcy judge Sean Lane would require some of the multibillionaire members of the semi-reclusive Sackler family who own the company to contribute up to $7bn and give up ownership of the Connecticut-based firm.
The new agreement replaces one the US supreme court rejected last year, finding it would have improperly protected members of the family against future lawsuits. The judge said he would explain his decision in a hearing on Tuesday.
I think we are in agreement sort of. In my opinion if you legalize enough from each class no one would want those drugs legal. There are better opioids, better hallucinogens, better stimulants and better benzodiazepines.
If morphine, fentanyl, oxycodone, etc is legal why would anyone want Carfentanil? What other purpose would it have other than as a weapon? The same goes for the rest of each class except I would substitute weapon for poison due to the varying types of toxicity.
It was never really a super big problem, but notice how all those sketchy synthetic cannabinoids basically disappeared after states legalized weed and McConnel passed the farmbill?
You don’t need to make it illegal at possession or even point of sale. You can make manufacturing of some of these incredibly toxic substances illegal and it would be much easier to stay on top of them if they weren’t warring against literally every psychoactive drug.