Lawmakers refused to crack down on drug dealers, but Prop. 36 hits hard

Matt Capelouto keeps his daughter’s ashes in a sky blue urn. It bears a bright yellow sun and a pale night moon, a replica of the cosmic yin/yang mural she painted in her room.

It was in 2019, a few days before Christmas, when Alexandra Capelouto took what she thought was a Percocet. She died from fentanyl poisoning in her bedroom shortly afterward. She was 20.

Since then, Capelouto has taken the urn, Alexandra’s photo and his burning outrage all over the state...