Michael Pope reports
Republican Congressman Morgan Griffith of Salem says licenses to sell opioids are not a commodity that should be bought and sold.
Rep. Morgan Griffith
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He says people who want to distribute opioids must earn their license, and he s introduced legislation to close a loophole in existing federal law. What we re trying to do today is to make sure that in the future, we don t have some rogue individual that comes in and buys somebody else s business or their license or their registration and doesn t go back to the DEA to get proper registration.