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New synthetically produced addictive substances such as fentanyl are displacing traditionally cultivated drugs such as hemp, coca or poppy seeds. The risk of health consequences and a growing number of overdose deaths is increasing.
A mountain of poison. Plastic bags and travel bags stacked meters high in front of a US drug agency truck. Last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) presented to the media at its Montebello, California branch, the largest quantity of synthetic drugs ever seized on US soil.
In the eastern Los Angeles metropolitan area, authorities dug two hiding places on October 2, in which Sinaloa cartel traffickers had hidden more than a ton of methamphetamine. Plus 405 kilos of cocaine and six kilos of heroin. And just a week later, customs agents stopped a Mexican semi-trailer truck at the southern border with legal and illegal drugs packed in the warehouse. Drug investigators found 1,367 kilograms of methamphetamine and 29 kilograms of heroin. And: almost 30 kilograms of fentanyl, in powder form and in stretched and mislabeled pills. “What we have confiscated here would be more than enough to give every man, woman and child in the United States and Mexico a dose of hard drugs,” said Bill Bodner, chief of the DEA in Los Angeles, at the presentation. In front. “That is a large amount.”
And it is a clear signal for the development of the drug market in the United States. As well as a warning sign for South American drug dealers and traffickers, it has been the source of great poisoning in the North for decades. Crown closures, passenger checks, flight cancellations, and quarantines in most South and Central American countries during the first half of the year are likely to accelerate a development that has been emerging for some time: drug users and drug dealers are making a historic change. From products made from natural products such as hemp, coca leaves or poppy seed capsules to chemical laboratory powders.
