WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, a move that dramatically expands the U.S. government’s authority to fight the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of American overdose deaths each year.
The designation, unprecedented for a narcotic, signals Trump’s intent to treat fentanyl not merely as a public health crisis but as a national security threat on a par with chemical warfare.
The only way to stop fentanyl is for the government to sell clean heroin at cost to any adult who wants it.
See China in the 1800s. The entire country ground to a halt on cheap heroin.
The British forced them to buy their opium at gunpoint for a big profit, draining the imperial coffers. The Qing didn’t industrialize or grow the state which is the larger issue.
Regardless, currently in North America fent is cheap and easy to get and the country hasn’t ground to a halt.
There are drugs in maximum security prisons, so eliminating drugs is impossible. All drug prohibition does is give criminals an incredibly lucrative business and forces people who take drugs to buy stuff that’s cut with dangerous shit.
Sounds like a good time. How do you define “halt” in this context, without giving away that you’re embedded in a capitalist society?