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I think I saw or heard something by Hamilton Morris about China being where most of the fentanyl is made. China has some amazing drug manufacturing facilities and they usually make stuff that people need. But the chemists there are really smart and can make lots of different chemicals.
If the drugs aren't coming from China where do you think they're coming from? My source is admittedly weak, that's why I was asking to be corrected.
Also how do you prevent drugs from entering a country? Wouldn't reducing the demands for drugs be a more permanent solution?
If you saw or heard it but can't prove it then you should probably be looking for evidence before you start telling other people it's true. If I had to guess where our drugs are coming from I'd assume they're being produced by some US puppet state in the middle east or south america and smuggled in by the CIA because that's how they've been doing it for most of a century now. Yes, reducing demand by directly addressing the social and economic conditions that lead to drug abuse in the first place would be far more effective than just criminalizing use & trafficking, which is exactly why we're not doing that.
Do you have a good source for that claim?
Which one? US intelligence being involved in drug smuggling or social services/rehab&etc working better than criminalization? Either way the answer is yes a shitload, they're both extremely well documented subjects
That fentanyl is primarily coming from the Middle East.
I said "if I had to guess" and "the middle east or south america"