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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that makes it a crime in Florida for someone to knowingly expose law enforcement and first responders to fentanyl.
He warned offenders that he would 'throw the book at you' if they lie to officers about whether fentanyl is present when they are responding to a call and blamed President Joe Biden for his 'unwillingness to secure the border' in exacerbating the opioid crisis.
'When you're putting fentanyl in our communities - you are killing people,' DeSantis said during a Monday press conference. 'And you need to be treated like the murderer that you are.'
The dangerous narcotic has been used nefariously in recent years by traffickers who are lacing other drugs with the deathly substance. Thousands of accidental overdoses and deaths have occurred as a result of the fentanyl epidemic – especially as the southern border crisis persists.
Fentanyl, unlike many other dangerous narcotics, does not need to be ingested to be dangerous and can enter the body in harmful amounts just through even unintentional inhalation of the powder substance or, in rare cases, through skin contact.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Monday making it a felony to expose first responders to fentanyl or other dangerous narcotics
Along with the massive flow of illegal immigration over the southern border, drug trafficking has also spiked to all-time highs and fentanyl is killing record-numbers of Americans
One story DeSantis often cites is when a toddler died after crawling on the floor of an AirBnB and coming in contact with fentanyl residue in the carpet. He told the tragic story during his bill signing on Monday.
'This is nasty stuff and you have situations where law
