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Color me Lethal


Fentanyl is a narcotic and opioid drug. It can be taken in almost any form, patch, pill, liquid, and injection.  A lethal dose of fentanyl is 2 mg (milligrams).  This means that an ounce of fentanyl is equivalent to more than 14,000 fatal doses, or about the weight of a small candy bar. Put only four (4) grains of salt on your burger and in weight you’ve exceeded the fatal dose.  

It is 50-100 times more potent than morphine.  

The border patrol intercepted 1,357 pounds of fentanyl last year at the USA southern border.  This is equivalent to more than 307,000,000 fatal doses.  And this is enough to kill almost every American citizen.  Many small pickup trucks could transport the entire load.

One question is how much of this drug did make it across the border and into the illegal drug distribution system. Nobody knows. 

Fentanyl is here.  It is an invasion of many sorts, health, addiction, debilitation, police resources, financial, and crime.  Everyone wants it gone, but nothing much is underway.

In modern times death doesn’t weigh much. In comparison, a 1.4 megaton (equivalent TNT) yield nuclear warhead weighs 2400 pounds, about twice this.

Links.
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/opioids/fentanyl.html
https://www.oxfordtreatment.com/fentanyl/lethal-dose/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon

P.S. Did you know fentanyl is 50 times more lethal than the venom of most poisonous African snake, the Black Mamba. 
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