I fly an EMS helicopter. We use fentanyl every day for pain management.

This world is a joke

Fuckin LOL. That’s too on the nose man. It’s Iraq all over again

When you think back... WMD was what justified the war in Iraq. Now he says this drug is a WMD and is coming in to USA from Canada. Is this his push to justify a full scale attack on Canada?

If they really cared about drug addiction and the consequences the sacklers would be in prison and he wouldn’t be pardoning every drug trafficker that gives him a bribe

the cartels and foreign networks that have turned fentanyl into the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45

why even add this? the cdc's data doesn't even mention it in the top 10 causes.

He will use the to justify a war. Which he will then use as an excuse to not have elections (because he saw Zelenskyy do it.) But I bet a cheeseburger takes him out before any of that.

The US is now post-parody.

drone strikes on Pfizer and Merck facilities are imminent! The Sackler family are being sent to Gauntanamo!

Cool throw the Sachlers in prison for war crimes then. The opiod epidemic stems from them.

Man, my other in law just dislocated her replacement hip 2 weeks so, imma have to sue the ambulance company for going so nuclear on her, I heard she got two doses of the stuff on the ride to the hospital...

The stupid! It burns!

JFC but I am so goddam tired of uttering the words “What a fuckin’ moron,” every time I read about him.

I think people are missing something pretty important here: this creates justification to use the US military against its citizens. Sure, it may just be to justify an invasion of Venezuela, but I suspect it's more substantial than that. Saying the cartels have WMDs within the United States manufactures a threat that the military needs to fight. These "WMDs" are in every state and every city. They have manufactured a credible reason to use the military anywhere in the US against any group of people because it's so pervasive.

Isn't this the drug that cops in America freak out at if you merely mention it?

Sounds like you have a wmd that's easy for police to plant on people.

OMG, I was under a weapon of mass destruction during surgery a few weeks ago!

So, anybody that's ever knowingly handled, trafficked or deployed a Weapon of Mass Destruction on US soil is going to be hunted down by anti terror agents, I'm assuming?

Doctors, nurses, delivery companies, pharmaceuticals manufacturers, etc, yes?

Not to mention the number of countries in the world and free agents that now have access to huge numbers of WMDs, all of whom now need to be closely monitored and the US must change its relationship with all of them, given the seriousness of what they now possess.

And obviously, anybody that's ever publicly deployed a WMD anywhere will have to be detained if they attempt to enter the USA. Can't have potential terrorists wandering about the country after all, not if they're on record as committing the unspeakable act of using a Weapon of Mass Destruction on a peaceful public populace.

This is just a flimsy justification for America's military invasion of Canada, given their repeated, official accusations from the very highest levels in their government, that Canada is flooding huge amounts of fentanyl into the USA.

To claim it is a WMD, after claiming Canada is attacking their country with it, and then to not take any military action against Canada to defend against these WMD attacks, would be admitting military defeat.

Has the USA admitted that Canada has bested them on the field of battle? Are they too scared to meet Canada head on? Sure seems like it.

Fentanyl is, if not the most common, a very common opiate used in hospitals, with virtue of being the cheapest. It's overdose danger, is that a normal dose is of much smaller size, and then so is a fatal one. Usually GOP/CIA is pro addicts and overdoses because you need to vote GOP harder to punish them harder.

Instead of lying for "easy to win wars so that the US/Trump can look tougher and/or perhaps cancel elections", if opiates were a real issue, then programs including forced detox, but free voluntary detox too, A pharma incentive to make better non-addictive pain relief (aspirin/tylenol/advil), or making a deal with Taliban to produce "state opium farms" so that our hospital system (source of street fentanyl through theft) can go back to "safe opiates".... are all direct solutions to a stated problem instead of false tariffs and war excuses.

Why does everything have to be so extreme. I tired of this chaos.

Oh come on. I just want something, anything, that could be plausible being the context for whatever they do next.

Fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction?

That's going to cause a lot of hospitals to close because they can't maintain the security requirements to house it.

But that's the point. Close hospitals, more people die.

Imagine getting charged with a personal amount of WMDs

So America is harboring WMDs? Quick somebody assemble a coalition of the willing to liberate them.

This is why only the legislature should be "designating" things like "terror groups" and "WMDs" .

Edit: A view I think should be pushed on this is that anti-terror laws are just a type of war mobilization against a stateless enemy. Each time a group is declared war on (aka designated a terrorist) there should both be a vote in the legislature per the constitution and the government should have a clearly written scope and budget for such a war, including a tax levy

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