Geraldo requires legalizing marijuana ‘in each nook of this nation’ to curb fentanyl overdoses

“What I would do have been I in cost is, I’d completely legalize marijuana all over the place in each nook of this nation, each sort of marijuana you need,” Rivera mentioned Wednesday on “The 5.” “The chewies, the smokies, any approach you need to get stoned.”

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The Fox Information correspondent-at-large made the remark in response to the Home Democrats’ choice a day earlier to reject a number of amendments that might have strengthened penalties for distributing the lethal drug that was liable for over 90,000 overdoses within the U.S. final yr alone.

Regardless of the surging quantities of fentanyl seized on the border by Customs and Border Safety (CBP), Rivera would not imagine tighter border management could be sufficient to treatment the continuing disaster. 

“I’m in favor of the border wall being constructed, nevertheless it will not cease the skilled smugglers,” he mentioned. “They will get that stuff in. Individuals are going to get stoned somehow,” he continued. “If they’ve entry to authorized pot, I feel that the demand of medicine like fentanyl which killed Prince, it is a killer drug, it’s so potent…” he trailed off. 

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“The 5” co-host Jesse Watters flatly rejected the sentiment firing again, “If I could not discover pot, I do not suppose I would go on the lookout for fentanyl,” Watters mentioned.

Co-host Greg Gutfeld recommended lawmakers ought to “cease cracking down on prescription opioid customers since you’re driving these individuals to the road and also you’re punishing lawful ache.”

“The underside line, any sort of battle on medicine ain’t gonna make this higher,” Gutfeld mentioned. “It by no means has. You have to go after the supply after which you have to legalize it and get the federal government and the police off individuals’s backs.”

Yael Halon is a reporter for Fox Information.