Posted on 08/26/2016 8:44:16 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Heroin cut with elephant tranquilizer may have caused 60 overdoses across two states in just 48 hours
Midwest health officials worried this would happen.
It’s why they brought together a tri-state coalition — Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky — to talk about the dangers, and it’s why they issued a stern, desperate warning last month to first responders and addiction counselors who patrol the front lines of the opioid war every day.
They said the situation was “dire.” One Ohio coroner told users they were “literally gambling” with their lives.
But their public plea could not prevent the heroin on their streets from being cut and sold with a new opioid analog 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 stronger than morphine.
In chemical terms, it’s called carfentanil. Colloquially, it’s an elephant tranquilizer.
It’s the most potent opioid used commercially, strong enough to knock out — or even kill — a 15,000-pound pachyderm, and used primarily to sedate other large animals, like ox, moose and buffalo.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Yeah, really! Everyone knows that heroin alone is perfectly safe. /sarc/
Another bucket of water out of the shallow end of the gene pool...
Maybe they have them in those dispensers in the bathrooms at gas stations.
“...use carfentanil as an execution drug ...”
Oh, I dunno... I’d think having your head stuck up an elephant’s butt (as seen in the video) for a few moments - and the THREAT of it - would be enough of a deterrent for even the most hardened criminal...
As a matter of fact, after ONE episode I’d imagine they’d become Model Citizens...
And you know the WORST part of it...? That poor guy will FOREVER be known as the dude who’s head corked a pachyderm’s posterior.
Like I said... you’ll never have a day THAT bad...
Ping for later
An obvious question: From whence do you get accurate numbers regarding consumption in an illegal industry?
I've noticed that once an issue has agenda advocates, they tend to cherry pick available data (and even make it up) to support the conclusion they want.
People who don't have an agenda generally don't look at reported data with a critical eye, but merely accept what they are told because they assume whoever is telling them also does not have an agenda.
That is often not the case. We see it again and again with the "Gay" issue, with Abortion, and with Global Warming, and yes, with Drugs and Prohibition.
If prohibition was so successful, then why was it revoked less than 10 years later?
That means Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donuts aren't even safe...
Because the power structure of the nation absolutely hated it. Washington D.C. was against it in the first place, and congress spent most of prohibition drunk on illegal booze. Same with the financial titans of New York. (and all the other major cities) The real power blocks of the Nation simply saw it as a "tantrum" that had been thrown by all the ignorant "hoi poloi" in what we now refer to as "flyover country."
Prohibition was undermined right from the start by people who disagreed with it, and worked hard to both violate and profit from it.
Prohibition was a bad idea. Too draconian in implementation, and too wrong headed. Alcohol had been part of mankind's existence for 10 million years, or so articles i've read have told me.
It was foolish to believe you could eradicate it in a few years by voting it away. If their goal was to get rid of alcohol, the methodology they are currently using to eradicate tobacco usage would have worked much better.
A slow gradual squeeze might have produced eventual success when that fast, draconian prohibition simply created a resentful backlash and quick paths to profit.
Not that we should have done it, but the concept of "prohibition" might have worked had it been implemented in the slow squeeze "Python" sort of methodology, such as slowly taxing it into oblivion.
I really hate when my elephant tranquilizer has heroin in it!
In related news, the collective IQ of the tri-state area has had a recent upward trend.
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