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> Consequently, you get people who bought drugs completely unrelated to fentanyl still overdosing from it (currently a problem in Austin, for example). > You d
by quickthrowman 2y ago
> Consequently, you get people who bought drugs completely unrelated to fentanyl still overdosing from it (currently a problem in Austin, for example).
> You don't want random kids doing marijuana dying from fentanyl.
Nobody is dying from fentanyl laced marijuana.
However, people are dying due to buying and eating pills that contain fentanyl when they think they’re buying xanax or oxycontin. None of the fentanyl is accidentally in these pills. The manufacturer knows about the fentanyl, but the customer might not be aware.
People have died from doing cocaine that had allegedly unknown fentanyl in it, as this news story details the deaths of three people who claimed to have done cocaine with unknown fentanyl in it: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-05/three-dead-of-overdose-early-saturday-morning https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-05/three-de...
- fragmede 2y agoThe 4D chess game there is cartel B is undercutting cartel A. Cartel A gets wind of this and gets pissed. they get some of their guys to put fentanyl in their bricks, but instead of marketing it as coming from cartel A, they mark it with the cartel B stamp. voila, fentanyl-laced cocaine
- bsder 2y agohttps://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2024/05/09/largest-fentanyl-spike-in-decade-puts-austin-on-high-alert https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2024/05/09/larg... > “The thing that makes this surge so different than others is most of these people weren’t trying to take opioids,” Stedman said. “They were trying to use multiple different substances — crack cocaine, methamphetamine, K2.” They're not putting it in marijuana intentionally, as I understand it. It's simply so hard to keep from contaminating it that it is practically impossible to avoid the contamination.