While China enforces strict laws against domestic drug trafficking, state-supported companies have openly shipped fentanyl to the U.S., investigators say. One prison-owned chemical company boasted online: “100% of our shipments will clear customs.”
  • Pipeline: A Chinese prison is part of the pipeline that delivers fentanyl to the U.S., ProPublica found in a review of U.S. and Chinese documents and interviews with investigators.
  • Fallout: Opioid overdoses have killed more Americans than the number of U.S. deaths in several wars combined.
  • Permissive: Veteran federal agents told ProPublica that China has failed to cooperate and even interfered with drug investigations; China insists it has cracked down.
  • brendansimms@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This shit is so dumb. Americans clearly want to use drugs. A gov of the people should therefore make it as safe as possible. End this whole stupid talking point by legalizing and regulating. Black markets can never be stopped - they just evolve.