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Heroin laced with elephant tranquilizer blamed for 5 Minnesota overdose deaths
Star Tribune ^ | March 31, 2017 — 10:44am | David Chanen

Posted on 03/31/2017 8:30:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sounds more like it’s a poison, not a drug. Two salt sized grains will kill. I read The Count of Monte Cristo. It covered at length how poison can become drugs by controlling the dosing.


21 posted on 03/31/2017 10:34:19 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: virgil

Agreed...seems like murder.


22 posted on 03/31/2017 10:51:33 PM PDT by garandgal (uit)
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To: BenLurkin

We saw one of these in the prison where I work. Guy still had the needle in his arm when he was found. Killed him that quick.

CC


23 posted on 03/31/2017 11:22:30 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: truth_seeker

“Not wise business to kill your customers.”

Never understood why they do that.


24 posted on 03/31/2017 11:36:06 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Seems logical.
Now that there are no elephants.
Now that there are no more circuses.
The elephant tranquilizers have to go somewhere.
...and then the murders began.


25 posted on 03/31/2017 11:54:22 PM PDT by Daffynition ("The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
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To: BenLurkin
Why do liberal strongholds like Minnesota have such big drug problems?

Six Arrested in Fentanyl Bust in Grand Forks Region

Six people have been arrested in northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota in a large fentanyl bust.

Fentanyl is a powerful painkiller than can make heroin more potent. It also can lead to overdoses. WDAZ-TV reports that three people in the Grand Forks-East Grand Forks region overdosed recently.

Police this week seized 500 pills during a traffic stop. They've been traced to a fatal overdose in New Jersey, and it's believed they came to the area via the internet.

Police don't think any more pills from the batch are in circulation, and they don't expect any more arrests.

Six Arrested in Fentanyl Bust in Grand Forks Region
26 posted on 04/01/2017 12:32:18 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They are good heroin addicts now.

...and they died doing what they loved...

27 posted on 04/01/2017 2:23:50 AM PDT by Does so (USA: Watching Muslims' 2nd US Generation become "Radicalized"...)
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To: Does so

“Let them eat cake” Marie Antoinette


28 posted on 04/01/2017 4:47:24 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Concentrate

If people want to become zoned out zombies, let them.

The only problem with that idea is they go on welfare and have health issues related to drug abuse and of course other people pay for their miserable existence.
Not to mention that people that do heavy drugs actually do stupid criminal type stuff and i am not talking about stealing to get money for drugs.
Drugged out people often do stupid things and other people pay for it.


29 posted on 04/01/2017 4:58:38 AM PDT by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: truth_seeker

No problem they have a unlimited supply see California.


30 posted on 04/01/2017 5:12:33 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: truth_seeker

I don’t get the 1st time overdose gimmick either, you would think the dealers would want to minimize that. Other stories say that taking the heroin laced with fentanyl makes it so you can’t get off on regular heroin anymore, so you have to go to the dealers that have the laced stuff. Also since it is made in a lab it makes it so you have to use less poppy pickers and fields, so minimizes exposure to the heroin operation.

Freegards


31 posted on 04/01/2017 5:28:15 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: BlueLancer

This heroin epidemic is different than other drug issues because many of the addicts were normal people who were prescribed addictive painkillers legitimately. When the prescription runs out, or they can’t pay for the legitimate prescriptions anymore, they use heroin as a substitute.

I’m not a liberal, and strongly support the death penalty for drug dealers, but many people impacted by this are not typical addicts associated with other drug plagues.


32 posted on 04/01/2017 5:29:55 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Avoid anyplace that celebrates “Muslim Day” at the statehouse.


33 posted on 04/01/2017 5:33:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: BenLurkin

carfentanil cures drug addiction


34 posted on 04/01/2017 5:38:12 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Concentrate
The only reason I don’t do heroin, pain killers, or visit casinos is that I’d probably like them too much.

'I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.' - Robert E. Lee

35 posted on 04/01/2017 6:39:11 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Getready

Thanks. The half life times I quoted are from the DEA guy who gave our presentation. He was also a paramedic. In our little dept, we’re just EMT basics. In fact, I let my EMT license expire, which is effective today.

Getting too old...


36 posted on 04/01/2017 9:28:49 AM PDT by moonhawk (My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

We’re a small rural dept in the mountains east of Albuquerque. most of out calls are medical—a lot of old folks around here, including most of us.

A few years ago, we had a meth lab right around the corner from where I live. The State police called us in just in case. Were suited up in full bunker gear with charged hoses. They found booby traps, but nothing went off.

Life is interesting sometimes.


37 posted on 04/01/2017 9:34:41 AM PDT by moonhawk (My Basket of Deplorable is Irredeemably mired in the Swamp of Crazy.)
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To: Leep; Concentrate
Make it legal, regulate it, so people know what they’re getting and tax the hell out of it to pay the national debt, put the cartels and SWAT/police unions teams out of business.

What’s not to like?

The only reason I don’t do heroin, pain killers, or visit casinos is that I’d probably like them too much.

If people want to become zoned out zombies, let them. Really. It’s not my fault.

The only problem with that idea is they go on welfare and have health issues related to drug abuse and of course other people pay for their miserable existence.

Not to mention that people that do heavy drugs actually do stupid criminal type stuff and i am not talking about stealing to get money for drugs.

Drugged out people often do stupid things and other people pay for it.

Both of these problems - and they are problems - apply to the legal drug alcohol ... and the health and welfare problems apply to obesity. We haven't deemed these sufficient reason to make alcohol or fattening foods illegal - rightly, in my view.

38 posted on 04/01/2017 10:17:23 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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