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DHS Might Classify Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction Because Everything Is Unbelievably Stupid Now
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Apr 16, 2019 03:35pm |
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| News Date | Apr 16, 2019 03:10pm |
| Description | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security might classify fentanyl, a highly addictive pain reliever that’s at the center of American’s opioid epidemic, as a weapon of mass destruction, according to a leaked document obtained by military-focused news site Task & Purpose.
Task & Purpose obtained an internal DHS memo titled “Use of counter-WMD authorities to combat fentanyl,” that was prepared by James F. McDonnell, the DHS assistant secretary for countering weapons of mass destruction, who describes the opioid drug as a possible “mass casualty weapon” that is “attractive to threat actors seeking nonconventional materials for a chemical weapons attack.” |
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| D:10267 | ev0lv ( 162.61 points) | April 19, 2019 07:44am |
Fetanyl is a pain reliever, abuse of it is like abuse of any other drug, it's not a "WMD". Fetanyl itself cannot hurt anyone, only people's choices with it, which goes for a lot of things. I'd find it kinda sad if this gets any reasonable traction.
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