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    17 hours ago

    according to the article that’s less than half a baby aspirin

    It’s also the equivalent of 20 to 40 entire doses

    One dose of fentanyl laced in other drugs is usually less than a single grain of sand

    So 40mg is a fuck tonne of fentanyl to have on hand.

    Usually users don’t carry pure fentanyl around, it’s already been laced into other drugs, so they maybe have a couple mg total on hand even for multiple peoples worth.

    40mg is like an entire box of laced pills.

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        15 hours ago

        Jailing people who lace drugs with fentanyl is reasonable, and people that aid in the distribution of laced drugs with it.

        I dont think people who take the drugs deserve punishment, but the people pushing the drugs do.

        The odds of someone having a whole fuckin 40mg of fentanyl on hand and not be involved in the drug pushing is very low, people dont realize that you dont move it around like that.

        A person would be in possession of like an entire fuckin pack of pills to have that much, because there’s like maybe tops 1mg per pill.

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          15 hours ago

          Pierre is cheering for this degree of being divorced from the reality of marginalized people. maybe don’t victim blame substance users? most of the supply gets contaminated by the cartels. it’s really simple, if you wanna fix that, you replace the dangerous supply with a safe supply and free drug testing centers

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            2 hours ago

            Read what I’ve written.

            I strongly doubt normal users and addicts are carrying more than 6mg on hand at any time.

            40mg is an enture fuckin house party’s worth of fent usually, because nearly always it’s laced with other drugs.

            So each dose is about 1mg or so

            2mg is a lethal dose for most users… 40mg is enough to kill 20 people >_>;

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      13 hours ago

      I know for someone who is not used to fentanyl, a very very low dose can kill them, but again:

      As harm reduction advocate Zoë Dodd noted, fentanyl is generally sold on the streets in 100-milligram increments.

      “If you’re talking about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, fentanyl users are using a quarter gram [250 milligrams] or more a day,” according to Guy Felicella, a harm reduction and recovery advocate.

      Unless I’m misunderstanding the article here, they’re talking about people who carry a SHITLOAD of fentanyl for personal use.

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        2 hours ago

        That sounds insane, I’m having trouble believing someone is using 125x the lethal dose of fent a day, that sounds inhuman.