Press release at Spokane News: (Condensed)
On Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, after a months-long investigation, DEA, ATF, local police seized 50,208 pills from a defendant at a Centralia gas station. … Lab tests revealed the pills did not contain fentanyl, instead they were carfentanil and acetaminophen. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid originally developed to tranquilize large animals such as elephants. It is extraordinarily potent and not approved for human use. In fact, it is estimated to be 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl. “Carfentanil is like fentanyl on steroids,” said Special Agent etc.
So fentanyl is now an everyday drug like coffee or aspirin, and morphine isn’t even a drug? Adapting is human nature, but when we’re talking about substances that kill several people each day in this one city, and require dozens of emergency police responses each day in this one city, we shouldn’t slide the scale. All of these drugs were formerly illegal for damn good reasons.
The usual Facebook cacophony includes the usual pointless prayers and the usual criminal hatred for police, but one question is worth thinking about:
How can an illicit industry profit by killing its customers? It doesn’t make any sense.
I don’t know how the current drug industry works, but I remember how it worked in the 60s. Most of the profit goes to the manufacturers and importers, who are carefully decoupled from the low-level sellers and users. We probably have a thousand users here, and the sellers are adding new users faster than the two or three deaths per day. The manufacturer in China only sees constant growth in consumption.
DEA pretends that they ‘work up the ladder’ to catch the manufacturer. Won’t happen in this case. China makes everything we consume, including legal AND illegal pills. If we get too serious, China can cut off our supply of everything. Even when the maker is not in China, eliminating one sales channel makes no difference because the maker has already compensated. Occasional raids by DEA are part of the overhead. Wasted or lost shipments are part of the overhead for any business.
As I’ve said a trillion times, the solution needs to start at the bottom of the ladder by giving the addicts a reason to live a useful life. First INVOLUNTARY confinement to break the drug habit, then training and jobs to learn the pleasure of ACCOMPLISHING A TASK WITH ADEQUATE PAY.
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