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  • Re: White House says Canada has 'misunderstood' tariff order as a trade

    From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Feb 3 20:25:10 2025
    On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 21:01:18 -0500, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Are people naive enough to believe that the only Fentanyl flowing
    through America is being smuggled in; that there are no domestic labs >producing it?

    Precursor chemicals are needed....I would suspect in US, obtaining
    them is not possible via consumers. It has been suggested these are
    exported from China. I have no idea what laboratory equipment is
    used, but US's DEA has added them to Special Surveillance List.

    I highly doubt these precursor chemicals are made via criminals. ========================

    Fentanyl and its analogues can be manufactured via a variety of
    different synthesis methods (see Figure 1), each of which involve the
    use of specific precursor chemicals. https://www.unodc.org/LSS/Announcement/Details/b152bda5-5d71-4f7e-9d68-1bdd9af04a83



    DEA Adds Precursor Chemicals Used to Make Illicit Fentanyl to the
    Special Surveillance List https://www.dea.gov/stories/2023/2023-10/2023-10-30/dea-adds-precursor-chemicals-used-make-illicit-fentanyl-special

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 4 22:21:43 2025
    On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 21:01:18 -0500, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Are people naive enough to believe that the only Fentanyl flowing
    through America is being smuggled in; that there are no domestic labs >producing it?

    Notice "fentanyl trafficking"

    Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick

    Mexico deployed this many troops to its border with the US in both
    2019 and 2021, and last year ramped up migrant arrests enough to cause
    border crossings to drop by >50%.

    So this is not new. At all. And it won't impact fentanyl trafficking,
    which is mostly done by US citizens.

    https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1886462147674231278?mx=2

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Feb 14 19:26:34 2025
    On 2/3/2025 12:54 PM, JAB wrote:

    they have to ...stop fentanyl [sic]

    War on drugs started with Nixon, and Nixon and future POTUSs lost this
    war.

    "Started with Nixon"? Why is that?

    (Without further research) I'd speculate that the drug issue started
    with LBJ opening the door, thanks to his welfare programs.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 14 19:46:32 2025
    On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:26:34 -0500, Michael Trew
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    "Started with Nixon"? Why is that?

    (Without further research) I'd speculate that the drug issue started
    with LBJ opening the door, thanks to his welfare programs.

    Public Enemy Number One

    At a press conference on June 17, 1971, President Nixon, with his
    newly appointed Drug authority at his side, declared drug abuse
    "public enemy number one." "In order to fight and defeat this enemy,"
    he continued, " it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive."
    With that statement, the "war on drugs" began.

    https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2016/06/26404/

    President Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8TGLLQlD9M

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 14 19:51:05 2025
    On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:26:34 -0500, Michael Trew
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Why is that?

    In short:

    1. Vietnam soldiers were using lots of drugs
    2. Hippies/etc were using drugs
    3. Hippies were not on society's treadmill

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