Mexico's drug cartels are abandoning heroin for fentanyl. Its main ingredients can be easily made in a lab, not grown in a field, and it is more profitable. “If it were an athlete, people would call it ‘The G.O.A.T.’ ” via WSJ
In May 2019, under pressure from the U.S., China put fentanyl-related drugs under a controlled regulatory regime. The next year, seizures of fentanyl from China in the U.S. dropped sharply, according to a Government Accountability Office report.. “They can take very quick adverse action against these producers.” Chinese chemical manufacturers continue to sell the ingredients for fentanyl, many of which have a range of legitimate uses.Mexican cartels were primed to take advantage.
He said he has made as many as one million pills in a week. Another worker in his lab had to periodically stop one of their machines—a $4,000, Chinese-made pill press—to clear jams as it ran on a recent, humid day. Some 160,000 companies in China produce chemicals used in drug assembly in batches as small as tens of metric tons, the State Department estimated in early 2021, although estimates vary widely.
The U.S. wants China to apply what are known as “know your customer procedures” to chemical makers so that manufacturers are accountable for where their products go, Dr. Gupta said. Chemicals used to make fentanyl, pictured at a Sinaloa safe house, often come from China, and can have other, legitimate purposes, which makes them hard to interdict.A batch of fentanyl, which would later dried in the sun and packed as kilograms of powder.
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