Maryland Governor Larry Hogan wants to up the penalties for drug trafficking and tighten the state’s program that monitors prescription drugs.
One measure would bring the state’s anti-gang statute more in line with the federal racketeering law.
The second measure would make the prescription drug monitoring program mandatory in identifying and investigating drug abuse.
In his statement the governor said he wanted to bring the various stakeholders together in the fight against the increasing phenomena of heroin and opioid addiction.
