I just don’t get how all the political ads are saying it comes from somewhere else but can be made and has been made in the states. Maybe we should look in our own backyard before overreaching the fence in someone elses backyard.
Probably both - however I think it’s not unreasonable to assume that organizations as mentioned in the article at least have the Chinese government’s blessing, if they’re not directly controlled by it. So even if the fentanyl itself is not coming from outside the states, the precursors from which it can be made with little effort are.
That and I guess some gangs make it somewhere else and then import it, but that’s another story.
Also technically, I think there’s legal fentanyl being produced in the states, but that’s usually not what’s meant in the discussion.
File this under “questions you can’t ask because people will give joke answers or will seriously believe you’re asking on a public Internet forum how to make hard drugs”
When I was in the south in the US. I just remember going thru my normal dealer of pot. Then one day he was all geeked or whatever you call it out. It came to the south like a bat out of hell. I was so glad I got stationed elsewhere because Walmart Wallgreens Freds started having to put shit in lockboxes that were never that way. If you had allergies you could only get 1 pack of allergy medication per month.
The team also procured secondary ingredients used to process the essential precursors, as well as basic equipment – giving it everything needed to produce fentanyl.
The core precursors Reuters bought would have yielded enough fentanyl powder to make at least 3 million tablets, with a potential street value of $3 million – a conservative estimate based on prices cited by U.S. law enforcement agencies in published reports over the past six months.
The total cost of the chemicals and equipment Reuters purchased, paid mainly in Bitcoin: $3,607.18.
Turning these precursors into fentanyl would have required just modest lab skills and a basic grasp of chemistry. One Mexican fentanyl cook who dropped out of school at age 12 told Reuters he learned the trade as an apprentice at an illegal lab.
“It’s like making chicken soup,” said the cook, an independent producer based in the cartel stronghold of Sinaloa state. “It’s mega-easy making that drug.”
It’s like making chicken soup,” said the cook, an independent producer based in the cartel stronghold of Sinaloa state. “It’s mega-easy making that drug.”
They paid 3700 for everything needed, including the glassware. The article details it all, even the pill presses and new analogs that hadn’t been discovered before, in the arms race against banning or restricting fentanyl precursors. The sellers themselves stated in the article exactly how to make the drug, including step by step guides, and chemical diagrams explaining the Gupta method.