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How has 'the US tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades'? In San Francisco the Honduran drug dealers gather around luxury SUVs for catered meal breaks b
by olivermarks 4y ago
How has 'the US tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades'? In San Francisco the Honduran drug dealers gather around luxury SUVs for catered meal breaks before resuming their murderous work. We are currently wildly out of control. Enough Fentanyl was seized in California in 2022 to kill everyone in the USA twice. God only knows how much more got through and into people's bodies.
- mcphage 4y ago> How has 'the US tried to be "harsh" on drug dealers for decades'? We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, for starters.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoCheck the amount of alcohol present on the shelves of US stores. There's enough to kill the roughly half-the-population who consume several times over. The point is not to compare alcohol & fentanyl, but to note that "enough X to kill Y" is a really bad way to think about quantities of drugs.
- olivermarks 4y agoTell that to Newsom https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/23/california-seized-enough-fentanyl-to-potentially-kill-the-entire-population-of-north-america-twice/ https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/23/california-seized-enough-f...