With the fentanyl crisis causing more than 100 deaths a week in California, lawmakers met on May 24 for the first-ever hearing of a newly created committee on overdose prevention, with some lawmakers and family members walking out in frustration during the proceedings.
“This hearing, 80 percent of the time, was saying we care more about the dealers than the victims,” committee member Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno) told The Epoch Times while the hearing was underway.
The joint meeting included the new Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction, and Overdose Prevention and two Assembly committees—public safety and health—with a Democratic supermajority leading the discussions….