Sheesh. What would happen if someone dumped 50 pounds of that poison into the water supply? Seriously, could it be a bioweapon or national security issue, or would it get destroyed in water? Could it be disbursed or aerosolized?
Right now it seems they mix it up to make heroin and cocaine more potent and addictive. They also make fake pain pills with it for black market sale. Maybe in other illicit drugs too. But what worse things can happen?
“”Seriously, could it be a bioweapon or national security issue, or would it get destroyed in water? Could it be disbursed or aerosolized?””
Whatever the answer is, it’s Trump’s fault!
Probably nothing.
I live in a city of 18,000. Our wastewater treatment plant treats about 1.4 million gallons/day.
1.4 million x 8.33lbs/gallon = 11,660,000lbs.
There are 453,600mg/lb
11.6 million lbs = 5.3 trillion milligrams.
46 lbs x 453,600 = 20,865,600 milligrams
20.8M mg/5.3T mg = 0.0000039%
Yes. From Wiki…
In 2012, a team of researchers at the British chemical and biological defence laboratories at Porton Down found carfentanil and remifentanil in clothing from two British survivors of the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis and in the urine from a third survivor. The team concluded that the Russian military had used an aerosol mist of carfentanil and remifentanil to subdue Chechen hostage takers. Researchers had previously surmised from the available evidence that the Moscow emergency services had not been informed of the use of the agent, despite being instructed to bring opioid antagonists to the scene. Unaware that hundreds of patients had been exposed to high doses of strong opioids, the emergency workers failed to bring sufficient quantities of naloxone and naltrexone to counteract the effects of carfentanil and remifentanil. As a result, one hundred twenty-five people exposed to the aerosol are confirmed to have died from respiratory failure during the incident.Carfentanil was not a controlled substance in China until 1 March 2017, and until then was manufactured legally and sold openly over the Internet, actively marketed by several Chinese chemical companies.
Potential as a chemical weapon
The toxicity of carfentanil in humans and its ready commercial availability has raised concerns over its potential use as a weapon of mass destruction by rogue nations and terrorist groups. The toxicity of carfentanil has been compared to that of nerve gas.