The Department of Justice announced that more than 10 million fentanyl pills were seized in a months-long operation with law enforcement agencies. Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react. #Fentanyl #DOJ #lawenforcement
The justice department announced that more than 10 million fentanyl pills were seized in a month-long operation with law enforcement agencies this equates to 36 million lethal doses according to the doj the justice department drug enforcement administration or dea also confiscated 980 pounds of fentanyl powder across the country from may 23rd through september
8th as part of the one pill can kill initiative the doj also said that of the 390 cases investigated during this period 129 are linked to social media platforms including snapchat tick tock instagram and facebook messenger although i wouldn’t say that let’s not say this is like a social media problem or something or that’s those are places that what people are
Having conversations about how to get drugs i mean it would not if we had stricter enforcement on those platforms i think it would make not one iota of difference in terms of the epidemic of people accidentally poisoning themselves was fentanyl right it’s yeah so you know like so that’s the that’s the problem people people are doing drugs and then those drugs are
Laced with a a poison right but they don’t know they’re not people are not trying to overdose on fentanyl they’re not like give me all the fentanyl i can’t it’s if they’re being poisoned exactly which is a really strong argument i would say for drug legalization yes because no one who can go and buy regulated tested proven marijuana is going to risk death from
Some of these other unregulated drugs yeah yeah absolutely heart of great we’re gonna have a lot of agreement we should say that you know one of the most hotly watched uh senate races in the country weighed in on this issue with dr oz uh tweening just recently 45 minutes ago rainbow fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and is designed to target children
And teens john fetterman supports legalizing dangerous drugs like this which of course isn’t true nobody wants vanilla as we’ve just described and amendment oz as is his trend is getting ratioed for this uh it should be ratio the d so the dea also has been warning that drug cartels are making colorful quote rainbow fentanyl to appeal to kids their press releases
The press release from the dea brightly colored fentanyl is being seized in multiple forms including pills powders and blocks that resemble sidewalk chalk i ran an article in reason magazine from my colleague lenorskenazi who’s really good at debunking these kinds of things she says there’s no evidence these pills are being marketed to children in addiction
Psychiat psychiatrist sally satell who’s quoted in that article says she’s skeptical the dealers would try to target children where there’s not an existing market uh again according to lenore my my dear friend so it is simply it’s just not the case now now they are they are it is it is very common for people selling drugs to right make them more colorful make
The packaging more exciting you know describe it with like fun words to make it a more attractive product of people they’re trying to sell it to that’s not children though they’re not uh this sounds like like the skittles panic or the the the the the skittles parties here though you remember those um enlighten me robbie well you were just supposed to it was a
Moral panic about oh yeah the kids these days they come to these parties and everybody has uh has a different like um like pill that they got out of their parents um uh uh bathroom bathroom cabinets and they all switch them and they all take them it’s not it’s not a real thing it never happened it’s that kind of involve the kids moral panic look i’m sure kids
Do accidentally poison themselves by taking prescription drugs or household cleaners um accidentally it happens all the time is there’s not a concerted effort among drug dealers too and because in this this fear is specifically coming always comes around this time of year and we lead into halloween because there is this absolutely wrong-headed fear that if
You trick-or-treat and you know you go to neighbors homes and they they give out candy and that oh no what if that candy is poison you know what if they’ve injected it with something because there was one case decades ago of this of a child who died from what was accused to be poisoned halloween candy what happened in that case and happens in every single one of
These cases that i’ve ever covered in the again my colleague lenore has covered a lot of these is that child’s own father killed him and and went to jail for eventually there’s never it’s always it’s always within the household no one no one who has drugs is like eager to part with them right to randomly kill every child on another street evergreen tweet drugs
Are expensive nobody wants to give them to your kids for free exactly and then and the parents did it yeah always yeah always yeah i mean someone you know many people have pointed this out now on on twitter you know people are have said things like you know the the the the the volume of fentanyl that would someone would have to consume if they really thought it
Was candy like taking a handfuls of those pills or multiples of those pills as though it were chalk and a kid were just chomping down on chalk would kill as one as one kid as a kid the kid does but that would kill them which kind of defeats this argument that they’re just trying to get your kids hooked also the idea of getting an eight-year-old hooked on fentanyl
Like that means they’re going to be out on the street like trying to deal in jones for yeah like what what is what is a piggy bank in order to in order to satisfy that fix um not a thing yeah which is not to say the fentanyl crisis is a huge problem yeah people are taking drugs that are laced with a poison that are there i have a component in them that is poison
And they’re dying and they’re dying in huge numbers 71 huge problems 71 000 overdose overdose deaths uh this year are linked to synthetic opioids those are those are people who took a drug on purpose but within the drug it was fentanyl it’s not an example it’s not it’s not people accidentally taking something they didn’t know it was a drug right the first i’m
I’m sure it’s happened one in a million times but it’s not a it’s not it’s not happening more broadly so let’s be aware of the actual problem you can still i saw new segments the past few days about um even on fox i think so some people saying that like does this mean we have to do the thing we did during the pandemic where kids you know are only doing pretend
Trick-or-treating in their own backyards or something and i was like are you kidding me no no no you you you you can trust your neighbors broadly you can uh you can trick-or-treat normally lenore uh did a great report on this for us at reason once looking at um and also the idea that like sex offenders are out to get your kid there’s all these these myths about
Halloween and how danger it is she said she looked at the statistics the only way in which halloween is a more dangerous night for various things is that uh more people get hit by cars so if if the police are want to make halloween a safer night more traffic coordinators or you know across the street now that kind of thing absolutely would do some good there’s
No don’t have to test the candy for for poison yeah all right well i feel really safe putting my costume back on and hitting the streets again after taking a couple of years off can’t wait to see it all right we’re writing for you after this
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Drug War HOAX? No, RAINBOW FENTANYL Is Not Being Marketed To Kids: Brie & Robby By The Hill
