The U.S. already pressured China to ban fentanyl once. Supply grew exponentially afterwards.
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that China would crack down on the production and exporting of fentanyl and the precursor chemicals used to make it, according to media reports.
But while Biden is painting the agreement as a win that will “save lives”, drug policy experts told VICE News they’re skeptical the measure will curb the overdose crisis—and it may make the drug supply worse.
Biden and Xi met Wednesday in San Francisco, where both leaders were in town for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. According to the New York Times, China will go after the exporting of illicit fentanyl into the U.S. and the manufacturing of precursor chemicals, which are being used to make fentanyl and smuggle it into the country from Mexico.
I mean clearly there’s systemic issues driving people to seek this stuff, just removing fenty without addressing those means they’ll just seek out other things. Realistically we should be legalizing the safer stuff (psychedelics, MDMA, etc) that isn’t as damaging or addicting and raising living standards to combat the harder stuff but in our current state where weed isn’t even legal federally and it’s all treated the same more or less addicts and ODs on hard drugs are going to be the outcome.
I agree with what yr saying but it all makes me think you've never tried, whether on purpose or not, fentanyl.
Fent...makes you absolutely retarded when yr on it, but when you are, you are transported to the warm busom of God til you snap out of it. You don't care about anything, hunger, cold, any trauma, any worries, any stressors. It all melts away for that short amount of time.
Besides the physical addiction sending a need as strong as thirst in the desert, that reprieve from pain is addicting all it's own. A good majority of people actively using and seeking out fent assume they'll die from it, and they're fine with that.
I've never been on the ban drugs train, I think the subjective exploration of consciousness and meta-reality are incredibly important for people, be that in personal mental health and growth, artistically and spiritually. At the same time, I think letting Shamans control the flow isn't a terrible idea, but if implemented should also come with an end date after society comes to terms with itself. I think terminal patients should be given as much DMT as they want for as long as they want it, it's like making practice runs at the other side. I think ibogaine should be widely available for resetting addictions back to null, but that should prob be a guided trip, same thing with ayehuasca.
But fent shouldn't be allowed outside a medical setting. The opioid receptor is devil in a red dress; dance with the devil, devil don't change, devil changes you.
In a kinder society we would prescribe meds that turn off pain receptors, like the ones developed from jellyfish and other neurotoxins, but that would prob be stipulated with forced, active restraint bed rest. We don't use those now because pain let's us know when we push too far, otherwise we'd just keep reinjuring ourselves. But fent gives that absence of pain too, and coupled with the i-cant-stress-how-extreme-cravings people will look at the work necessary to holistically end their pains and just say, nah man. At the cost of everything. Parents abandoning children. Cuz once their high, they don't care. So they just plan to stay forever high.
I'm all for banning fent.
It's the embodiment of my second favorite malaphor "build a man a fire and he's warm for a night, but set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life"
Well there is Tranq which is Fentanyl + Xylazine which is a cattle tranquilizer. That shit is truly scary, and like krokodil (sp?) before it, it will rot the flesh right off your bones.
The ultimate problem is people seem unwilling to accept the fact that the new generation cartels are completely in bed with China, and conducting a reverse opium war against the United States.
Prohibition doesn't work. Never has. Every prohibition effort has failed. Every prohibition effort has done FAR more harm than good. Prohibition efforts are inherently and categorically 100% bad.
Implementing a new prohibition with a Chinese Dictator. WONDERFUL follow up to funding genocide.
Why are Democrats trying SO HARD to get Trump back in office?
I was going to ask why Biden doing stupid things would make people vote for Trump, but then I remembered that the average voter is dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot to spite their face.
And yes, I'm aware that I've combined two sayings in a way that doesn't make sense.
Fentanyl is dangerous because it's so strong that the difference between a survivable dose and one that's fatal is very small. But the drug itself when properly administered isn't harmful and has therapeutic use.
However people with opiate addictions will use pretty much anything to prevent them getting sick, including stuff that can have horrible health consequences. Krokodil comes to mind, or temazepam jellies, but I'm sure there are other examples. Thank fuck I'm clean now.
Fentanyl is dangerous because it is exceptionally potent; for reference, it is cited to be between 50 and 100 times more potent than morphine. It's typically dosed in 100 microgram (mcg) increments, with a potentially fatal dose is around 2mg (2000 mcg).
Carfentanil is around 10000 times stronger than morphine, dosed at 1 mcg increments.
A fatal dose is essentially invisible to the naked eye.