Border bust leads to exposure of botched battle in the War on Drugs

A recent seizure of 238 pounds of fentanyl-laced drugs at the San Ysidro border checkpoint produced an unexpected bit of paperwork: documents suggesting that the epidemic, which claims more and more lives every month in the United States, may be the result of a well-meaning ploy by the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency to reduce demand for drugs by making them exponentially more dangerous. “We’re still trying to get answers,” says drug-use advocate Bill Popper, “but it’s starting to look like the idea was that if people know their drugs might kill them after a single use — you know, the way cocaine laced with Fentanyl might do — then they would think twice before using them. Unfortunately, this is what comes of having people making policy about cocaine who don’t have much first-hand experience with cocaine.” More on this story as it develops!