• Drug dealers who sell or distribute fentanyl could face first-degree murder charges under a proposed Virginia House of Delegates bill.
• House Bill 1455, authored by Del. Tim Anderson (R-Virginia Beach) states that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance containing fentanyl “to another person without such person’s knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl is guilty of attempted murder of the first degree by poison.”
• In addition, the bill proposes to punish dealers involved in the sale, gift, or distribution of substances containing fentanyl that “results in the death of the other person.”

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