China is now killing our children with fentanyl that looks like candy.

They are selling the chemicals to the drug cartel labs in Mexico. There they are producing them and sending them over our open southern border .
Yet we continue to buy their products and do business with them .
And why don’t we just take out these labs ?
And why is our border still wide open ?

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hartfire · 61-69

If that is true (I don't deny it; I just haven't seen the evidence) it would be ironic -- China imposing what it learned from the English on their descendents.
During colonial times, the British sold cheap heroin to China to the point where 10% of the nation was addicted, enabling the British to steal tea plants and its production methods, and make numerous other exploitative trade deals.

Driver2 · M

@hartfire evidence? 300 Americans a day are dying from fentanyl
The border is open and the drugs are pouring in .
Is 300 dead a day enough?
The opium war was not from our country and it was long ago

hartfire · 61-69

@Driver2 I have heard that many Americans are dying from Fentanyl addiction, but what I'd heard was that it's mostly legally prescribed painkillers.
Are you saying there is also a black market supply of the same drug via Mexico? I'd be interested to see the research reports.
What strikes me as odd is that someone would pay blackmarket prices for anything that they could get legally. Although, if a doctor cut a patient off, I can see how an addict would resort to the illegal variety - and even ruin their lives to do so.

Driver2 · M

@hartfire they get cutoff than buy illegally. The cartels copied the prescription pills and put fentanyl in. Instead of getting high they od and die.
Now they are making them look like candies to attract kids.
It’s murder in a mass scale.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@hartfire No good blaming Britain for what it may or may not have done in China in the 18 or 19C.

China now does its own thing in the world in its own way irrespective of anything before its Revolution.

No good blaming Mexico either.

For the problems of drug addiction in the USA, blame whoever is acting within the USA in the 21C to make Americans addicted to a dangerous misuse of medicinal, or indeed other, drugs.

Similarly in any country, really, although it would need international co-operation to break the gangs.

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