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Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show

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Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show

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politics @lemmy.world · 3 months ago

According to current and former DEA agents and records reviewed by The Associated Press, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico from 2023 to 2025.

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The “war on drugs” didn’t work and neither, apparently, does “looking the other way”…
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  It works just fine. It has always been a war on poor people and minorities.
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    Which works fine ?
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      In as much as it’s working as intended.
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        Exactly. It was never about reducing drug use.

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