WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
Washington, D.C. -Last night, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto's (D-Nev.) Combating Illicit Xylazine Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously. Introduced in the Senate alongside Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), this legislation would list xylazine as a Schedule III controlled substance while protecting the drug's legal use by veterinarians, farmers, and ranchers.
"Thousands of Americans have died from overdoses of fentanyl laced with xylazine, but law enforcement still doesn't have the tools it needs to properly combat this crisis. Now is the time for us to address this emergency while ensuring xylazine can still be used for veterinary me...