The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s second-in-command has quietly stepped down amid reporting by The Associated Press that he previously consulted for a pharmaceutical distributor sanctioned for a deluge of suspicious painkiller shipments and did similar work for the drugmaker that became the
Kind of beside your point but worth mentioning that cartels absolutely do NOT traffic fentanyl. They want to make money and fentanyl kills their customer base.
It is the low level dumber dealers who are mixing with fentanyl so they can stretch their supply to make more money.
100% cartels traffick fentanyl. They get precursor chemicals from Chinese companies and produce it in bulk. Id wager the lower level dealers would prefer not having fentanyl because a) they’re the ones actually dealing with the fallout of the deaths and b) most drug dealers are dealer-users
Fact is, fentanyl is active at something ridiculous like 1/100th of volume than heroin. So a simple thought experiment
For the same amount of product, would you prefer smuggling 1 truckload of drugs into the US or 100 truckloads into the US? The answer is obvious. A few deaths here and there is 100% financially worth it
All the deaths don’t matter because of the ridiculous savings you’re getting on transporting the bulk quantity of drugs over. Fentanyl isn’t going away anytime soon because of this. It’s just so much easier to transport because you need to transport so much less
Kind of beside your point but worth mentioning that cartels absolutely do NOT traffic fentanyl. They want to make money and fentanyl kills their customer base.
It is the low level dumber dealers who are mixing with fentanyl so they can stretch their supply to make more money.
Not sure that’s true. Here’s a US gov doc reporting on the Sinaloa drug cartel trafficking fentanyl.
From the link.
Fair enough! TIL. Thanks for the info.
100% cartels traffick fentanyl. They get precursor chemicals from Chinese companies and produce it in bulk. Id wager the lower level dealers would prefer not having fentanyl because a) they’re the ones actually dealing with the fallout of the deaths and b) most drug dealers are dealer-users
Fact is, fentanyl is active at something ridiculous like 1/100th of volume than heroin. So a simple thought experiment
For the same amount of product, would you prefer smuggling 1 truckload of drugs into the US or 100 truckloads into the US? The answer is obvious. A few deaths here and there is 100% financially worth it
All the deaths don’t matter because of the ridiculous savings you’re getting on transporting the bulk quantity of drugs over. Fentanyl isn’t going away anytime soon because of this. It’s just so much easier to transport because you need to transport so much less