Rainbow Fentanyl, The Latest Halloween Scare

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Should Parents Be Worried About Rainbow Fentanyl This Halloween?

As Halloween approaches, parents face a terrifying spook from officials who say that fentanyl could be hidden in their children's candy baskets.

The warnings follow multiple high-profile seizures of fentanyl disguised as candy. On October 19, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported seizing 12,000 suspected fentanyl pills inside candy boxes labeled as Sweetarts, Skittles and Whoppers at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The suspected trafficker attempted to go through TSA screening with the bags of "candy" in tow.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told Newsweek the fentanyl seized in the LAX bust was hidden in candy wrappers for smuggling purposes, not in an effort to sell it directly to minors. However, he is among the law enforcement officers who recently issued a public warning for families to inspect their children's candy before anything is eaten this Halloween.

Two weeks earlier, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested an alleged trafficker with about 15,000 rainbow-colored fentanyl pills packed into a Lego box in New York City. Another 300,000 rainbow pills were seized from an apartment in the Bronx on October 12. In total, the DEA has reported seizing 10.2 million fentanyl pills between May and September 2022.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/should-parents-be-worried-about-rainbow-fentanyl-this-halloween/ar-AA13keQV

Better safe than sorry but there have been warnings going back to the time I was a child over 50 years ago. Back then it was razor blades in apples.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

1. Fentanyl is killing young people and sending others to hospitals in my city.

Not a joke.

My wife--who is in the schools just did Narcan training--and has asked me to look into potentially getting Narcan to have on hand and to send to out son who is away at college.

Treating this threat as if it is a big joke is a serious mistake. Fentanyl is deadly.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. You're right but

why would drug dealers put fentanyl tablets in random kids’ Halloween basket? They want living customers, not dead children.

[DBoon]

3. they also want paying customers

why hand it out for free?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

5. "The first one is free" is the oldest trick in the book of those dealing opioids.

Get someone hooked and they keep coming back (assuming they don't OD).

Fentanyl is dirt cheap to produce. Getting people addicted produces a steady income stream.

Simple criminal economics.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

4. Don't ask me to get into the mind of drug dealers who knowingly put lives at risk.

The bottom line is that cartels are bringing in fentanyl that looks like candy. Even if we discount the idea that it was produced to sneak into trick-or-treat giveaways, it has still been created to look "fun" and appealing to young people.

Too many people have died or overdosed by taking these fentanyl-laced drugs. A fatal dose is miniscule.

One bad decision can take a person's life.

[GusBob]

9. You're right too

The point is not kids, it’s their paying customers

The Mexican manufactures use pills now because the amount of the synthetic poison is controlled by dosage vs powder
The street level dealers were putting too much in the delivery or cutting it with nasty shit which was causing their customers to die

It’s easier to smuggle too, as the OP article hints towards

[GusBob]

6. Pill presses are the latest trick for the poison manufacturers

For any doubters out there some reading suggestions

" Dreamland" and "The Least of Us" by Sam Quinones. Well wriiten and well researched books about Meth, Fentanyl, Oxycontin and Black Tar Heroin manufacturing distribution and addiction in this country

And yes scare tactics aside, the pushers do give out free product. They can manufacture tons of the synthetic drugs.

ironically, around here they hand out Narcan like candy now

[LudwigPastorius]

7. FUD!

https://www.truthorfiction.com/fentanyl-lax-12000-pills/

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Copaganda is a helluva drug.