Posted on 09/28/2017 12:39:02 PM PDT by C19fan
As U.S. law enforcement struggles to develop effective screening methods for fentanyl, a federal narcotics official last week warned against the rise of carfentanil, a large-animal tranquilizer that is considered about 50 times stronger.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is regarded as anywhere from 10 to 100 times stronger than the most commonly used opiate, morphine. Carfentanil, also a synthetic opioid, is used to sedate elephants and is considered about 50 times stronger than fentanyl.
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That stuff killed the little girl from The Family Affair.
The corrollary to darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ is ‘non-survival of the un-fittest’.
None of that has anything to do with the criminal creation of waves of drug addiction by criminals in the drug industry. If these criminals had been prosecuted for past scams there would be no opoid epidemic. The FDA is neck deep in this too, protecting them.
It does reduce the crime rate if you just make everything legal.
That would be very foolish on their part, in that most of the Fentanyl and Carfentanil stays in China and the region. They have recently outlawed its production, but for the same reasons it took the US a long time to outlaw designer drugs. There are just so danged many of them.
Here is a very useful table that should be bookmarked for later. Equianalgesics. That is, with oral morphine as the baseline as “1”, other pain relievers are either fractions of “1”, like aspirin at 1/360th of the strength of morphine. Or in the other direction, Carfentanil, which is 10,000 to 100,000 times stronger than morphine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equianalgesic
The most potent drug on the table that is legal for human use is Fentanyl, 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine. Everything above that is very illegal.
Importantly, this table only shows *the most common* of the drugs. There are literally thousands more that *could* be on the table. Many don’t even have names, just numbers. And more are being invented all the time.
How do you outlaw something that hasn’t been invented yet?
We might be having the right idea to just declare any drug more potent than Fentanyl as being a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
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