Matt Capelouto

Well, you know, we first introduced this in 2020, and it first had its first hearing in early 2021. But every time we reintroduced it, We watered it down a little bit to just try to get something to pass. To make it more palatable. To make it more palatable. Ultimately, by the end, it was specific to just fentanyl.

Originally, we had it, somebody would get the admonishment for dealing methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and a couple other hard drugs. We narrowed it down to just fentanyl. So not carfentanil or xylizine? No, any analogs of fentanyl, they would get the admonishment. But also, primarily because fentanyl is now being put into all these other drugs. All of them. Right.

Originally, we had it, somebody would get the admonishment for dealing methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and a couple other hard drugs. We narrowed it down to just fentanyl. So not carfentanil or xylizine? No, any analogs of fentanyl, they would get the admonishment. But also, primarily because fentanyl is now being put into all these other drugs. All of them. Right.

Originally, we had it, somebody would get the admonishment for dealing methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and a couple other hard drugs. We narrowed it down to just fentanyl. So not carfentanil or xylizine? No, any analogs of fentanyl, they would get the admonishment. But also, primarily because fentanyl is now being put into all these other drugs. All of them. Right.

Anybody who's dealing drugs, we want to get the admonishment. But in an effort to make it pass, because this is one of the arguments by the Senate Safety Committee, they mentioned that it might be more palatable to them if we just narrowed it down to fentanyl, which we did. Right. We did some things to make sure a minor wouldn't get this admonishment.

Anybody who's dealing drugs, we want to get the admonishment. But in an effort to make it pass, because this is one of the arguments by the Senate Safety Committee, they mentioned that it might be more palatable to them if we just narrowed it down to fentanyl, which we did. Right. We did some things to make sure a minor wouldn't get this admonishment.

Anybody who's dealing drugs, we want to get the admonishment. But in an effort to make it pass, because this is one of the arguments by the Senate Safety Committee, they mentioned that it might be more palatable to them if we just narrowed it down to fentanyl, which we did. Right. We did some things to make sure a minor wouldn't get this admonishment.

They were dead set on if somebody is under 18 caught dealing drugs, they shouldn't get the admonishment. Keep in mind, I'm of the opposite belief on that. As a parent, if my child was dealing drugs, I want this. Give them this warning. It's just a warning. Scare the heck out of them. I don't want them to continue dealing drugs. Exactly. Exactly. It's just insane.

They were dead set on if somebody is under 18 caught dealing drugs, they shouldn't get the admonishment. Keep in mind, I'm of the opposite belief on that. As a parent, if my child was dealing drugs, I want this. Give them this warning. It's just a warning. Scare the heck out of them. I don't want them to continue dealing drugs. Exactly. Exactly. It's just insane.

They were dead set on if somebody is under 18 caught dealing drugs, they shouldn't get the admonishment. Keep in mind, I'm of the opposite belief on that. As a parent, if my child was dealing drugs, I want this. Give them this warning. It's just a warning. Scare the heck out of them. I don't want them to continue dealing drugs. Exactly. Exactly. It's just insane.

Yeah. Yeah. And we can't give a warning to somebody between 17 and 18 and convicted of dealing drugs. Yeah. Just because they happen to be 17, 16.

Yeah. Yeah. And we can't give a warning to somebody between 17 and 18 and convicted of dealing drugs. Yeah. Just because they happen to be 17, 16.

Yeah. Yeah. And we can't give a warning to somebody between 17 and 18 and convicted of dealing drugs. Yeah. Just because they happen to be 17, 16.

So when Prop 36 came along and the people who were behind it, they added Alexandra's Law to it and they kept it in its original format.

So when Prop 36 came along and the people who were behind it, they added Alexandra's Law to it and they kept it in its original format.

So when Prop 36 came along and the people who were behind it, they added Alexandra's Law to it and they kept it in its original format.

Yes. Yeah. When Prop 36 was announced and we started to get more, when was it announced? Oh, gosh. It had to probably around... March of 2024. And there had to be a lot of money raised because we need, you know, the ballot measure process. California doesn't make it easy. Realize a ballot measure is a way around our legislature.

Yes. Yeah. When Prop 36 was announced and we started to get more, when was it announced? Oh, gosh. It had to probably around... March of 2024. And there had to be a lot of money raised because we need, you know, the ballot measure process. California doesn't make it easy. Realize a ballot measure is a way around our legislature.

Yes. Yeah. When Prop 36 was announced and we started to get more, when was it announced? Oh, gosh. It had to probably around... March of 2024. And there had to be a lot of money raised because we need, you know, the ballot measure process. California doesn't make it easy. Realize a ballot measure is a way around our legislature.

So our legislature sets the rules on how you get something to qualify for the ballot. And it takes lots of signatures to get signatures these days, takes lots of money. You have a very short period of time to do it and you really have to have all the stars and you have to be about 100 percent over the figure that they give you because they do this Jedi mind trick nonsense.