The Fentanyl that's coming across the border is in its purest, raw form. It is deadly when you come in contact with it UNCONTROLLED.
The people you’re depending to change “uncontrolled” to “controlled” are the very people who started this epidemic in the first place.
Step back, read up on some history of this stuff. It’s actually a part of a pattern of drugs being used in medicine, then abused (always by medical professionals first), then made illegal, then a substitute is created.
And the the whole cycle starts again with the substitute. Fentanyl is the 4th cycle in a chain that started with once-legal heroin.
Here let me demonstrate how ridiculous this propaganda.
In this story a 20 lbs. of fentanyl is said to be able to kill 4 million poeple. So that’s 200k people per pound.
The DEA has an annual manufacturing quota of fentanyl of just over 2100 kg, or about 950 lbs. Per year.
If the assertion that 20lbs can kill 4 million is accurate, the DEA is authorizing the production of an amount of fentanyl that would kill 190,000,000 people, or ~60% of the US population... every single year. Obviously this is not a reflection of anything happening in the real world.
Actual number of people dead by fentanyl at the height of this epidemic, about 35,000 in the last year for which data exists.
In other words, the thing that has you scared silly is a claim that is about 5400 times the actual real-world situation.
This is propaganda. That they use “how many people it can kill” as a metric is a screaming red flag of propaganda. They couldn’t have made it clearer if they printed “PROPAGANDA RAG” on their banner.