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It seems completely absurd to me to blame the Chinese for fentanyl use in the US. Comparing it to the opium war is even more ludicrous. Where there is a black

It seems completely absurd to me to blame the Chinese for fentanyl use in the US. Comparing it to the opium war is even more ludicrous. Where there is a black market, criminals (of any nationality) will step in to fill the void. If you want someone to blame, I'd suggest looking a lot closer to home: pharmaceutical companies made false claims about the addictiveness of their opioid drugs, as well as about the duration of effect of their extended release variants; many US doctors and dentists were prescribing large quantities of opioids where paracetamol/ibuprofen would have been more suitable; and of course there is decades of futile and harmful US drug policy.

sunkenvicar 7y ago
China has taken over the black market and weaponized it against us. China sends the fentanyl precursors to Mexico. There the fentanyl is manufactured and sent to the US and Canada with the help of Mexican cartels. Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us. A powerful move against an already over-prescribed society. Fentanyl is found in lethal quantities in all kinds of street drugs. Not just heroin but in pills labelled “Xanax” and in cocaine powder. We would respond very differently to these casualty numbers in a shooting war with China. Maybe that is why China is killing us with fentanyl. I draw the line today with 7,000 deaths/yr in Canada and 40,000 deaths/yr in America. What are your numbers?
- GordonS 7y ago
  FYI, some people deliberately take cocaine and fantanyl (or other opioids) at the same time (speedballing). > Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us Source please. TBH your comment sounds a lot like the anti-Chinese propoganda that the US government has been spouting since China became the boogeyman de jour.
  - sunkenvicar 7y ago
    You seem to be deliberately distracting and misinterpreting my point. Something Chinese censors would be doing today. You have only given a half-pinion because we are still waiting for a number. How many deaths are acceptable? China makes fake pills from fentanyl: https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/dea-report-counterfeit-pills-fueling-us-fentanyl-and-opioid-crisis https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/dea-report-cou... Fentanyl is a national security threat: https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-is-deliberately-using-fentanyl-to-destroy-the-us_3058199.html https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-is-deliberately-using-fent... Carfentanyl is a WMD: https://globalnews.ca/news/3108514/lethal-carfentanil-could-be-used-by-terrorists-in-mass-attacks-experts-say/ https://globalnews.ca/news/3108514/lethal-carfentanil-could-...

sunkenvicar 7y ago

China has taken over the black market and weaponized it against us. China sends the fentanyl precursors to Mexico. There the fentanyl is manufactured and sent to the US and Canada with the help of Mexican cartels. Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us. A powerful move against an already over-prescribed society. Fentanyl is found in lethal quantities in all kinds of street drugs. Not just heroin but in pills labelled “Xanax” and in cocaine powder. We would respond very differently to these casualty numbers in a shooting war with China. Maybe that is why China is killing us with fentanyl. I draw the line today with 7,000 deaths/yr in Canada and 40,000 deaths/yr in America. What are your numbers?

GordonS 7y ago
FYI, some people deliberately take cocaine and fantanyl (or other opioids) at the same time (speedballing). > Our intelligence agencies won’t rule out China is doing this to weaken us Source please. TBH your comment sounds a lot like the anti-Chinese propoganda that the US government has been spouting since China became the boogeyman de jour.
- sunkenvicar 7y ago
  You seem to be deliberately distracting and misinterpreting my point. Something Chinese censors would be doing today. You have only given a half-pinion because we are still waiting for a number. How many deaths are acceptable? China makes fake pills from fentanyl: https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/dea-report-counterfeit-pills-fueling-us-fentanyl-and-opioid-crisis https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/07/22/dea-report-cou... Fentanyl is a national security threat: https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-is-deliberately-using-fentanyl-to-destroy-the-us_3058199.html https://m.theepochtimes.com/china-is-deliberately-using-fent... Carfentanyl is a WMD: https://globalnews.ca/news/3108514/lethal-carfentanil-could-be-used-by-terrorists-in-mass-attacks-experts-say/ https://globalnews.ca/news/3108514/lethal-carfentanil-could-...