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Tell me about the 100k fentanyl deaths each year. How does this volume of drugs reach the US?
by lazyeye 11mo ago
Tell me about the 100k fentanyl deaths each year. How does this volume of drugs reach the US?
- vel0city 11mo agoPeople cooking it up domestically? Its not hard to make (if you don't mind killing some people) and its ingredients can be commonly found in the US. Through small parcels from China mixed in with regular mail? People mail weed all the time and that's also illegal to go through the mail. A small parcel can carry many thousands of doses with high enough purity. Most fentanyl in the US probably has little to no connection to Venezuela. Probably lots of other drugs, sure, but not fentanyl. A lethal amount of fentanyl can be as small as 1-2mg. So enough fentanyl to kill 100k people would be like 50ish grams. Its not nearly some massive amount of material like you seem to think it is.
- FuriouslyAdrift 11mo agoIt's mostly made in Mexico... https://insightcrime.org/investigations/fentanyl-producers-mexico-adapting-challenging-market/ https://insightcrime.org/investigations/fentanyl-producers-m... It used to come primarily from Indian and China way back in 2023... https://insightcrime.org/investigations/how-fentanyl-synthesized-mexico/ https://insightcrime.org/investigations/how-fentanyl-synthes...
- dragonwriter 11mo ago> Tell me about the 100k fentanyl deaths each year. How does this volume of drugs reach the US? Illicitly manufactured fentanyl used in the US is predominantly produced in Mexico and smuggled across the very large land border between the US and Mexico. Probably the next most common source is domestic illicit production.
- TOMDM 11mo agoIt's fentanyl, one semi successful smuggling run traffic's enough fentanyl to lethaly dose thousands of people.
- pixl97 11mo agoI mean a semi load worth could probably kill everyone in the US. Stuff is damnned strong.
- wat10000 11mo agoBy coming over the land border with Mexico. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg93nn1e6go https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg93nn1e6go Your rhetorical question suggests you thought lots of fentanyl is coming on boats on the ocean. This might be a good moment to pause and reflect on where you get your information and how you reach your conclusions.
- lazyeye 11mo agoI understand that fentanyl is not coming Venezuala but I dont think what you've stated is the devastating point you think it is. The US is also awash with cocaine (20k overdoses a year is the tip of the iceberg). I note that none of the replies to my parent comment had anything to say about the scourge of drugs across America. I guess 120k deaths a year is a small price to pay if it makes Trump look bad, right?
- wat10000 11mo agoThen why didn’t you say cocaine? The connection of these boats to any drugs is dubious, but you picked a drug that they’re definitely not involved in even if you 100% believe the administration.
- lazyeye 11mo ago"The connection of these boats to any drugs is dubious..." this is simply ridiculous. Boats with 3-4 outboards on the back carrying large bails of some unknown "cargo" transiting well-established drug routes is obviously not a "dubious" connection. We also don't know what the intelligence was on the ground which I'm also guessing was quite substantial. Neither you or I have the faintest clue what information was available behind the targeting decisions. Reality and your desire to frame things to justify your hatred of Trump are two completely different things.
- wat10000 11mo agoWhat’s ridiculous is believing anything these shysters say.
- t-3 11mo agoGiven that nobody grows opium poppy in South America, it's definitely not through Venezuela.
- vel0city 11mo agoFentanyl is entirely synthetic. It's not related to poppy plants at all.
- AngryData 11mo agoThe US mail and Fedex. A single small package can have enough fentanyl to kill 100K people. It certainly doesn't come from South American.