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Drug overdose deaths fall for 6 months straight as officials wonder what's working
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Nobody I know will even buy weed off the street anymore because of fentanyl. I'm willing to guess people are hyper aware of it, no matter what their drugs of choice are.
Nobody is putting fentanyl into your weed. It's financially irresponsible to put a more expensive drug into a less expensive drug and kill your customers with it. And drug dealers care about their money beyond all else, they aren't going to fuck up their own business. Not only do they want you to come back for more later, they're definitely not out sourcing fentanyl and then selling it at weed prices, if you want the fenty weed, you damn well better pay up for it.
People getting fentanyl and not knowing it are buying cheap heroin. Because that's what it is. It's a heroin analogue that's way stronger and can be sold cheaper because a nano speck of it is like 4 doses vs an 8-ball of good smack being one or two.
If you buy street weed and it has fentanyl in it and you didn't ask for it specifically, someone is trying to kill you in particular.
Fentanyl in weed can be a thing though. Scales used by dealers who are weighing different drugs, aren't necessarily cleaning the scale between use. Cocaine is the bigger offender in that scenario though, and can definitely lead to a way easier overdose than weed would
You know, that's a good point. I was approaching this from a "nobody would do this on purpose" perspective, and while I do still stand by my point, yours isn't one I considered.
Where I grew up, every third too-stoned teenager would be like "maaaaan, this weed is laced with acid" and, no, it never was, and there's like three different really good reasons why it never was. The "street weed can have fentanyl in it!! You could die!!" people have been, in my experience, overwhelmingly that same group.
But that said though you make a very compelling point for simple negligence being the source of those stories.
Not to mention lacing weed with LSD would do absolutely jack shit unless you ate it raw. (Heat would destroy the LSD before it ever had a chance to reach your neuronal clefts.)
I actually know of a young couple in my town who died from fentanyl in their weed. I went and told everyone I knew (and linked them the obits) to warn them to stop buying street weed (it's illegal here) and make sure they're getting it safe.
Terrifying stuff.
It's still not likely to be common negligence; weed scales and powder scales are generally different scales (different levels of precision, and different maximum weights), unless you're dealing with small amounts of weed or large amounts of powder.
why would you buy weed off the street instead of from the friendly and incredibly stoned budtender in the basement of a strip mall
We used to be a country
And people are testing their drugs for fentanyl now because of that hyper awareness. Public awareness, easier access to narcan, and fentanyl test strips are probably big contributors to the decrease in OD deaths