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> being driven by prescription drug manufacturer industry associations and interest groups You do know those groups are currently profiting off selling fentany

• yamtaddle 4y ago
  Yes, of course. But illicit fent imports aren't a threat to that business—hospitals aren't buying fent from Joey "Slick" Williams on the corner, or mail-ordering it from shady sites based out of Russia. Importing very-cheap asthma medicine and boner pills, however, might affect their business, and the safer & more reliable those imports are perceived to be, the more business on more kinds of drugs they lose, and the more that folks realized how cheap drugs can be, the more support legislation allowing a larger legal import market might gain, and they really don't want that. [EDIT] Now, fent imports might threaten their ability to sell other opioids to addicts, but my impression is that cash-cow's rather less-lucrative now than it had been, for reasons largely unrelated to fentanyl smuggling.