It Was Just Pot, They Said

[FoxtArt]

The drugs include heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and most other illicit substances. Under the proposed measure, those caught with small amounts of these drugs would face a misdemeanor instead of a felony charge.

I'm curious what a "small amount" of fentanyl is, because a "small amount" of fentanyl as typically described by lawmakers is enough to kill about 1,000-10,000 people.

Doesn't that, by definition, make it a "arsenal-of-death" in the hands of these "high supremacists" just waiting to mow down an entire town, that should warrant national news every time its found and all the criminal penalties that go with hiding such "arsenals"? When are we going to take steps to stop the next mass drugging? https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/healt...ose/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/healt...ses/index.html

[BladesNBarrels]

I'm curious what a "small amount" of fentanyl is, because a "small amount" of fentanyl as typically described by lawmakers is enough to kill about 1,000-10,000 people.

Doesn't that, by definition, make it a "arsenal-of-death" in the hands of these "high supremacists" just waiting to mow down an entire town, that should warrant national news every time its found and all the criminal penalties that go with hiding such "arsenals"? https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/healt...ses/index.html

On another forum, there was a discussion about Fipronil and its toxicity.
One response brought a little more perspective, with a touch of humor:

"Fipronil is very toxic. I read that even a concentration of one part per trillion is toxic to bees. That is one liter per cubic kilometer. Think about it. That?s not much.
It was in Organic or Physical Chemistry in college that we were discussing the toxicity of some substance, that someone in the class said that one gram of that particular substance could kill a million people. To which, Dr. Burr countered: That is like saying that a teaspoon of semen could impregnate 250 million women. The problem is distribution!"