I think drug-war propaganda is what really, really caused a whole generation of kids to learn to call bullshit on some tough guy with a badge trying to speaking loudly and authoritatively on almost any topic, most especially drugs.

I remember I was maybe in 5th or 6th grade when I first ran across the infamous Blue star tattoo bullshit. Supposedly handed out by cops to our school…even back then, I had my suspicions. But the usual suspects among kids and adults were buying it hook, line and sinker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_star_tattoo_legend

Later, I was at a job where someone wanted to put that up on the break room wall as some kind of PSA, but was showing it around to everyone first. I literally laughed out loud and told them this was an urban legend. This was c. 1994-1996; I told them to look it up. I was given much side-eye and treated like I “didn’t care about the kids” since I was young and single.

The flyer still went up. 🤣

There is just a helluva lot of bullshit floating around and for things that many normies haven’t been exposed to and don’t bother to look into, what a cop says will pass as the “authoritative” answer.

TBF, I know nothing about fentanyl and have never really looked into it.

In at least in one case it looks like it was human smuggling. Could you imagine getting blown up for trying to escape a situation you are in for no reason other than Trumplethinskin needing a distraction from his history of pimping children.

It works just fine. It has always been a war on poor people and minorities.