With Google, Bitcoins, and USPS, Feds realize it's stupid easy to buy fentanyl
A congressional report released Wednesday lays out just how easy it is for Americans to buy the deadly opioid fentanyl from Chinese suppliers online and have it shipped to them via the government's own postal service. The report also lays out just how difficult the practice will be to stop.
After Googling phrases such as "fentanyl for sale," Senate investigators followed up with just six of the online sellers they found. This eventually led them to 500 financial transaction records, accounting for about $766 million worth of fentanyl entering the country and at least seven traceable overdose deaths.
[...] "Thanks to our bipartisan investigation, we now know the depth to which drug traffickers exploit our mail system to ship fentanyl and other synthetic drugs into the United States," Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio said in a statement. "The federal government can, and must, act to shore up our defenses against this deadly drug and help save lives."
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday January 28 2018, @07:05PM (1 child)
Actually, IIRC, requiring cigarette packages to not have blatantly distinctive packaging did reduce the amount of cigarettes sold in Austrailia? New Zealand? Something like that. Granted this is different from requiring a skull and bones on the front of the package, but it is an argument against your argument. (OTOH, I don't know *how* effective it was, or even whether there was any long term effect. And it may have operated by reducing the advantage for manufacturers to advertise.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Monday January 29 2018, @01:00AM
Yes [health.gov.au] a whooping "0.55 percentage points between December 2012 and September 2015" from the "smokers prevalence". More precisely:
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford