The California Highway Patrol may best be known for freeway chases and the Hollywood glamour of its motorcycle cops in television shows like “ChiPs.” But now the storied agency is patrolling the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin as part of a multiagency effort to crack down on rampant drug dealing that’s decimating the 50-square-block area.
On one day recently, CNN watched as task force members arrested a suspected drug dealer accused of selling meth and fentanyl. Inside a plastic bag: 33 grams of fentanyl that CHP officer Andy Barclay estimates, at its worst, could potentially kill thousands of people.
“We’re looking at around 16,500 fatal doses of pure fentanyl in that small bag. Yes, 16,500 people could potentially die,” Barclay said.
“We’re looking at around 16,500 fatal doses of pure fentanyl in that small bag. Yes, 16,500 people could potentially die,” Barclay said.
Police are always liars. Especially about drugs. I am no expert, but I sincerely doubt a single street drug dealer had 16,500 fatal doses of fentanyl on him. What is he doing, mass murdering every drug addict in the Tenderloin?
You know what would go a long way to solving this problem? Legalizing and regulating drugs and getting free addiction help for those who want it.
Most fentanyl users I’ve met could go through a gram in a day, this is not great journalism lol
The only way anyone could possibly take a gram of “fentanyl” in a day is if it’s extremely dilute, which it would be if it’s being sold on the street. The police’s estimate of 33g being equal to 16,000+ fatal doses is most likely assuming it’s pure fentanyl, and there’s no way the police honestly belive its pure.
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Imagine the amount of money saved on “fighting this war” and also made on taxing people making adult decisions on their own consumption that could then be put back into helping people with the real problems and educating people to make the smart choices based on actual facts and not lies spun to support their hate filled narrative.
Don’t click CNN links in the Zaslav era.
Referring to this news on him? https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/gq-david-zaslav-article-warner-bros-discovery-1234783188/
That’s terrible! Drugs should be free then shit like fentanyl wouldn’t be a problem.
Leagalise, regulate and educate. It isn’t hard, fucking idiots. The “war” on drugs is the problem causing all this bullshit.
