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 requerdanos on Sunday January 28 2018, @07:36PM (3 children)
As a multi-decade former smoker, I can also tell you that sometimes "how it works" is that you are bored when you happen to decide to smoke a cigarette, and you not only read but carefully examine every detail of the pack, the lighter, the unsmoked cigarettes, the one you are smoking, etc.
(Score: 0, Troll) by frojack on Sunday January 28 2018, @07:44PM (2 children)
As a never-smoker, I look at both you and the AC as utterly insane individuals.
But I bet you are both in favor of free government supplied health care.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday January 28 2018, @09:35PM
Smoking was not an activity arrived at by an excess of sanity on my part. I did finally stop.
Well, sure, if a government somewhere is sitting on a huge free supply of health care, then I am all for them releasing it.
I suspect not, however.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 29 2018, @12:35AM
Fuck you and your high puppy you are riding on.
On a second thought, I'll let the puppy alone and fuck you twice. With a jackhammer.