Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins

Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by oh-kumudo on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:56PM (#17138729)

But China has THE strictest drug law anywhere on the planet. China doesn't consume those drugs, it is because there is a market so they are creating those drugs. Why didn't Canadian government just ban it? Put those dealers into jail and grab their profit? Stricter law enforcement works.

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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by GW150914 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:02PM (#17138774)

Nonsense. https://thediplomat.com/2015/05/chinas-growing-drug-problem/

http://www.williamwhitepapers.com/pr/China_and_Substance_Abu...

As for laws, Singapore or Iran probably have stricter ones in practice.

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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by oh-kumudo on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:09PM (#17138830)

> The numbers have only continued to grow since then. In January, Xinhua reported that China handled 52,800 drug cases from late September to December 2014 alone

This is probably including Marijuana uses as well, which is already legalized in much part of West. It is the not on the same ground sadly, so I don't think it is nonsense.

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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by GW150914 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:11PM (#17138847)

I won’t even get into how you’re contradicting your first point about “strictest laws” and just quote from the first article.

It’s apparently spreading north as well – northeastern province Liaoning has been a “major growth area” for drug cases over the past few years, Ma said. Outside analysts believe that North Korea (which borders Liaoning) has become a major source of methamphetamine smuggled into China, although Beijing is reluctant to publicly point the finger at its ally.

So, not pot.

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