I’m guessing this stuff is a little more difficult to make, not exactly a garage-operation product?
Chinese suppliers are providing both raw fentanyl and the ‘machinery’ necessary for the assembly-line production of the drug
If a particular batch has two milligrams of fentanyl per pill, approximately 500,000 counterfeit pills can be manufactured from one kilogram of pure fentanyl.
“For the cartels, why wait for a field of poppies to grow and harvest if you can get your hands on the precursor chemicals and cook a batch of fentanyl in a lab?”
China is a global source of illicit fentanyl and other [new psychoactive substances] because the country’s vast chemical and pharmaceutical industries are weakly regulated and poorly monitored.