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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on December 06, 2018, 08:30:39 am
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Trump praises death penalty for Chinese fentanyl 'distributors and pushers'
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Updated 06:59 AM PHT Thu, December 6, 2018
(CNN) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised the potential for capital punishment in China against "distributors and pushers" of fentanyl — an opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
"One of the very exciting things to come out of my meeting with President Xi of China is his promise to me to criminalize the sale of deadly Fentanyl coming into the United States. It will now be considered a 'controlled substance.' This could be a game changer on what is [...] considered to be the worst and most dangerous, addictive and deadly substance of them all," Trump tweeted.
"Last year over 77,000 people died from Fentanyl. If China cracks down on this 'horror drug,' using the Death Penalty for distributors and pushers, the results will be incredible!" he added.
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So, just imagine, we hear about Chicago and all the people getting shot there (to their credit, not so much lately), and in the early 1990s, there were crack wars in some big cities where people were getting killed. But how does that compare to this opioid epidemic? By comparison, it seems pretty bad.