'As a law enforcement agency, we must adapt as trends change.'
has launched a new fentanyl investigation unit after reassigning resources from illegal marijuana cultivation and crime enforcement.
As fentanyl crime and deaths increase in Denver, complaints regarding illegal marijuana activity have dropped by nearly 67 percent, according to the DPD. So the department's Marijuana Unit of the Vice and Narcotics Section has been transformed into the Fentanyl Investigations Team. The Marijuana Unit had been created almost a decade ago to focus on illegal large-scale operations involving marijuana growing and distribution, which increased shortly after Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012. But with more than half of the population of the United States now living in states with recreational marijuana, prices of legal pot are hitting record lows....and so are marijuana-related crimes, particularly illegal grows.
Commonly added to street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and painkillers, fentanyl is considered to be lethal after 2 milligrams, according to the
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