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Fentanyl: The horrendous killer of our time
wnd.com ^ | 1/6/2023 | Barbara Simpson

Posted on 01/07/2023 9:42:57 AM PST by rktman

Anyone who takes even a cursory look at the news – regardless the source – has to be aware of fentanyl – the latest of the killer drugs assaulting our society. It wasn't too long ago that virtually no one had ever heard of it. Now, it seems to be everywhere, and from what we are told, it is a killer of staggering proportions.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is said to be 50 times more potent than heroin. While the drug is found in all states, California is particularly hard hit, and the source, it appears, is movement of the drug across the border from Mexico, with Interstate 5 being a main trafficking route.

Authorities believe the original source of the drug is China, and there seems to be no limit to the quantity that ends up in the U.S. There is no information available as to whether our government has had any contact with China about this movement of the drug.

In a recent report from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, law enforcement, just in California this year, seized 28,765 pounds of the drug. According to Newsom, that's enough to kill the entire of population of North America, TWICE!

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: border; china; drugs; fentanyl; horrendouskiller; ods; opioids; opiumwar; ourtime; smuggling; thewall; wod
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Meh. According to branDUHn, who deals in truth, not facts, 20,000 pounds of fentanyl is only enough to kill maybe 1,000 folks so how bad can it really be? 10% for the big guy? Just sayin'.............. /S
1 posted on 01/07/2023 9:42:57 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

I still don’t think we should die on this hill.


2 posted on 01/07/2023 9:45:23 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: rktman

I remember it from the 2002 Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis. The gas that was released into the theater to knock out the hostage takers was Fentanyl vapor, or that of a Fentanyl derivative. That was (I think) the first time I heard of it.


3 posted on 01/07/2023 9:48:56 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: rktman

People in government are making money


4 posted on 01/07/2023 9:49:02 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: rktman

We have nothing to fear but the common cold itself.


5 posted on 01/07/2023 9:49:40 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: rktman

Fentanyl is reportedly pouring over our porous southern border.


6 posted on 01/07/2023 9:50:45 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: rktman
Four expert witnesses and a Minnesota jury said 11ng/ml did not kill George Floyd.

Why should I worry?

7 posted on 01/07/2023 9:53:25 AM PST by zeestephen (43,000)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“ I still don’t think we should die on this hill.”

The CCP is working with the Mexican government to wage chemical warfare against the American people. It’s a hill worth killing people over.

L


8 posted on 01/07/2023 9:55:04 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: rktman

The horrendous killer of our time is government.


9 posted on 01/07/2023 9:55:14 AM PST by dljordan
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It’s not just the border...

CVS and Walgreens to pay a combined $10.7 billion settlement for alleged opioid prescription lapses

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/cvs-walgreens-to-pay-opioid-settlement-how-much-when-rcna61307


10 posted on 01/07/2023 9:56:40 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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11 posted on 01/07/2023 9:58:11 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: rktman

Death penalty for trafficking, distributing or selling it. No appeals and no 30 years in prison before getting around to it. Make it a federal crime and execute the criminal in prime time.


12 posted on 01/07/2023 9:58:35 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (At this point I would rather have the illegals here than the liberals.)
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To: rktman

Chemical weapon. Just wait until it finds its way into a city water supply.......


13 posted on 01/07/2023 10:00:02 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: rktman

> There is no information available as to whether our government has had any contact with China about this movement of the drug. <

So what if contact was made? The very most the ChiComs would do is look concerned and make empty promises. Those guys love what fentanyl is doing to the United States, and they want it to continue.

It’s the modern equivalent of catapulting a diseased animal carcass into a besieged city.


14 posted on 01/07/2023 10:01:24 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: rktman

There is a good book out on the history of both Valium and OxyContin. Most don’t know of the one billionaire family that owned both drugs.

See:
Empire of Pain: The Secrete History of the Sackler Dynasty.


15 posted on 01/07/2023 10:01:31 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: Jim W N
........”California this year, seized 28,765 pounds of the drug. .....that's enough to kill the entire of population of North America, TWICE!”......

True or not the fact is it's defiantly killing those who do drugs - an even some who don't that come in contact with it. It's chilling to think this is in the hands of people who could just as easily drop it in a grocery store and taint veggies and fruit. he crazies out there have no regard for the public.

16 posted on 01/07/2023 10:02:42 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; All

The potential for this to be a WMD…is staggering.
It is already a murder weapon.
Quite probably many “OD” victims are actually murdered.

A public poisoning would require only dusting public areas with this substance.


17 posted on 01/07/2023 10:04:02 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: caww

Or on currency
Public areas at subways, rail, airlines
School playgrounds
Sports arenas

Anywhere


18 posted on 01/07/2023 10:06:16 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: rktman

Yet Biden and Dems leave the border wide open. Killers.


19 posted on 01/07/2023 10:07:00 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: silverleaf

That is my biggest concern, given some cases of it seeming to be deliberately disguised.

I just don’t know if that was to poison children, or sneak it past sniffers.


20 posted on 01/07/2023 10:10:42 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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