Looking for heaven in all the wrong places.
I watched a NatGeo show about the illicit fentenyl trade from Mexico to the US. The Mexican cartels relied on smuggling the precursor chemicals from China. The goal of the cartels is to domestically source those precursors.
Disturbing how the drugs get more potent but that does make sense because addicts need a bigger hit. Marijuana has gotten much more potential too. During my lifetime, went from heroin and cocaine to crack then meth and oxy to now fentanyl.
What’s stupid is Fent doesn’t give you that heroine high. It’s powerful but not much on the opiate high these idiots are chasing. Does it bind in the receptors nice and tight - yes but cutting it with heroine really doesn’t work great hence the ODs. They chase the high not the opiate dose. It’s just dumb. The junkies want the opiate high and the drug pushers give the a strong opiate with little of the high. It’s like asking for idiocy. We are talking druggies so duh.
Don’t do anything about it and the problem will solve itself sooner rather than later as the junkies remove themselves from the gene pool.
This is a sad situation and, imo, criminality is definitely involved.
Otoh, no one is forcing the use of these illegal and dangerous drugs.