Mike Dunleavy on Drugs

Increase penalty for fentanyl deaths from 20 to 99 years

Marijuana is legal, but regulate it very heavily

• Unveiled a plan to eliminate the state's Marijuana Control Board and give the state's commerce commissioner the authority to regulate the cannabis industry. (2019)
• Appointed an activist who opposed cannabis retail sales in Fairbanks to the state's Marijuana Control Board. (2019)
• Said he does not support altering the state's retail cannabis tax rate. (2018)

More enforcement but also more drug treatment

For those Alaskans who have made a mistake and have gotten involved with opiates or other drugs and want help, we are a compassionate people. Therefore, as part of our public safety approach we will provide ways for you to break this habit and get back into society and be productive individuals.

Comprehensive approach including prosecution & interdiction

Our statistics are terrible. It's affecting a lot of Alaskans. It's impacting many businesses. I don't think there's an Alaskan that's either not been impacted by crime or knows somebody that's not been impacted by crime. So we're going to have to increase our trooper numbers. Prosecuting attorneys, we have to have the right number of prosecuting attorneys. We have to have the courts opened on Fridays. We have to have a comprehensive approach to dealing with this issue, including dealing with the opioid issues, the heroin issue and making sure that we're working closely with the federal government to prosecute and interdict drugs coming into the state.