• kava@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    100% cartels traffick fentanyl. They get precursor chemicals from Chinese companies and produce it in bulk. Id wager the lower level dealers would prefer not having fentanyl because a) they’re the ones actually dealing with the fallout of the deaths and b) most drug dealers are dealer-users

    Fact is, fentanyl is active at something ridiculous like 1/100th of volume than heroin. So a simple thought experiment

    For the same amount of product, would you prefer smuggling 1 truckload of drugs into the US or 100 truckloads into the US? The answer is obvious. A few deaths here and there is 100% financially worth it

    All the deaths don’t matter because of the ridiculous savings you’re getting on transporting the bulk quantity of drugs over. Fentanyl isn’t going away anytime soon because of this. It’s just so much easier to transport because you need to transport so much less