QUOTE((lurkingaround @ Jun 8 2025, 07:27 PM)
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Illegal drugs like fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc are different, in that they are addictive and can eventually kill the drug addicts if abused, eg accidental overdose, dangerous delusions/hallucinations, etc..
Most drug addicts start young, eg in their teens or twenties, ie gullible folks who can easily be tricked by drug pushers into becoming drug addicts, eg through peer pressure, pop culture, escapism in dance clubs, etc. Rich and young US drug addicts are long term customers for the Mexican drug cartels = a captive market of repeat customers.
....... IOW, the market demand and supply situation for illegal drugs are not normal, like for knives, smartphones, computers, EV vs ICE-V cars, Nvidia GPUs, critical minerals, crypto-coins, shares, crude oil, gold, etc.
So, apples and oranges or knives =/= fentanyl.
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Personally, I support the legalization of addictive drugs because we can buy addictive coffee/tea and chocolate (= caffeine), cigarettes (= nicotine) and alcohol in many countries = more tax revenue for the government, instead of for the Mexican drug cartels and Triad gangs.
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QUOTE(pornoman2128 @ Jun 8 2025, 07:35 PM)
Good that China doesn't sell fentanyl then, only the raw materials that are also used to make medical pain killers.
I wonder what AMDKs are gonna say if China gets fed up and totally blocks precursors like it blocks Rare Earth from America, even to the point of no re-export. Something tells me they're not gonna express gratitude to China.
If CCP China totally blocks precursors of fentanyl, I'm sure other countries will take up the slack, like how Apple Inc is now producing about 30% of its flagship iPhones in India, instead of 100% in CCP China previously, ie from about 2 years ago. Fyi, .......
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Yes, global supply chains are increasingly diversifying away from China, though this shift is complex and ongoing. Several factors are driving this trend, including rising labor costs in China, geopolitical tensions, and a desire for more resilient supply chains. QUOTE(Wedchar2912 @ Jun 8 2025, 08:02 PM)
very sure America will be the first to beg China to produce the precursors/completed medical grade fentanyl.
a while back, I chatted with a anesthesiologist casually. he said that fentanyl is a very effective and useful pain killer. and is used for serious cases. without it, they would need to use a lot of other pain killers.. not effective and may come with a lot of side effects.
I guess this is why fentanyl is still being produced... its for real medical purposes... despite the vilification by the Western media and US government of the drug.
Fyi, morphine, derived from opium (the Britain-China Opium Wars in the 1800s), is also medically used as a powerful painkiller, though much less powerful than the synthetic opioid fentanyl.
....... Methamphetamine is also used medically but to treat certain mental disorders. Similarly for the medical use of cocaine, marijuana/ganja (= cannabinoids), etc.
The point is these medicines can be misused or abused, eg by Mexican drug cartels, Triad gangs, CCP China, etc to profit off gullible drug addicts, esp youths = victims, like the victim-scammers kidnapped to KK Park/Myawaddy.
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