Democrats who helped legalize drugs are shocked to learn Washington is leading the way in fatal overdose deaths. If only they can figure out how to stem the tide.
Senator Maria Cantwell is soon up for re-election, so she’s emerged from her office where she pretends to represent voters. She’s holding roundtables on the drug overdose crisis in strategically selected areas where she can get free, easy, and widespread news coverage promoting her efforts.
These roundtables are little more than political theater. Nothing is learned and the reasons for the drug overdose epidemic are mostly ignored. But it’s especially troublesome that Cantwell is talking with some who helped create this mess to begin with. And all these roundtables do is give them cover for policies and approaches that have killed scores of people.
