Here is a story that crossed my news feed today that offers some insight. basically synthetic fentanyl is super cheap and being smuggled into the country. because it is so cheap dealers will use it to mimic or increase the potency of other popular drugs. Only it is strong, oh oh so strong, and easy to get way too much of it in the product you are trying to sell.
I live in Austin but had not heard about his, but I live about 10 miles from the area where that interview was filmed and haven't been keeping up with local news.
in that recent Austin incident it appears at least 6 people have been arrested. some were selling cocaine, some marijuana, some crack, all laced w fent. scary times
The only drug I haven’t heard of being laced is acid ? It’s definitely most popular in cocaine, heroine, meth and fake oxy and Xanax pills. There’s always a potential that someone will lace weed or magic mushrooms as well. There was an incident at a music festival where someone laced mushrooms and a huge amount of people were overdosing. It’s scary out there !
I can see how powdered drugs get cut with fentanyl (more profit for the sellers) but why would anyone use it with mushrooms or weed? It seems the intent is to kill people.
Honestly, it seems like it being put in nearly everything that people take to get high. It's very sinister.
other powder drugs aren't really cut with fentanyl, it's cross contamination. It's being weighed on the same scales as cocaine, heroin etc.
They purchase pill presses and molds and use their own recipes to make fake pills.
Are you sure? Weed and shrooms aside, don't you think that fentanyl, being far cheaper, is used to cut more expensive powders, like heroin? Or how about in those fake prescription meds pills you said they have their own recipes for - would fentanyl be a recipe ingredient?
This is why fentanyl is being added to drugs:
www.cdc.gov
This article has a good explanation of why the drugs in this case would have contained fentanyl:
fox59.com
www.aol.com
As for who LE might be looking to charge for murder in this case, the key element in Texas is who knew fentanyl is in the drugs. They go after the manufacturer who put the F in the drugs. I wouldn't be surprised if the laws are similar in other states.
Here's an article on a similar case in Texas. "A Texas law that went into effect Sept. 1 allows individuals who knowingly gave fentanyl to someone who dies from an overdose to be charged with murder." If you follow that embedded link, it notes that there were HUNDREDS of F deaths of this sort in Ft Worth alone.
Fort Worth man charged in connection with fentanyl poisoning death: court records
A 35-year-old man died from fentanyl toxicity in January. Now the man police say provided him the drug has been charged with murder.
Fentanyl is the main ingredient, so it's not cutting anything
It only takes an amount of fentanyl the size of 5-7 grains of salt to cause death for an average size adult.
I know. I'm not sure what your point is. They use a smaller amount to make those pills. Sometimes more and people die.It only takes an amount of fentanyl the size of 5-7 grains of salt to cause death for an average size adult.
Fentanyl and Opioid Awareness | Riley County Official Website
Resources, tools, and information to help raise awareness about the dangers of illicit drug use.www.rileycountyks.gov
I pass them out around the FTW area like candy.
