Edmonton police seize $1.1M in drugs from apartment near the legislature

Its not a bad thing, its just totally irrelevant. Its like stopping 1 car per year going 150km/h down the QE2, patting self on back, and wondering why people are still speeding.

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2022/09/government-of-canada-takes-action-at-the-border-to-help-address-toxic-illegal-drug-supply-in-canada.html

This bust was 3.7kg.

In 4 years they caught 35,000kg at the border. That's 38 tons. That is just how much they CAUGHT! How much do we think the border catches anyway? 1%? 10%?

The addicts are still just as addicted as before this reduction of 0.0001% of the nations supply of fentanyl. This is a synthetic drug which is about as difficult to manufacture as soda pop, no crops are required. 1kg costs around $1000 to produce ( source ). So this $866k is some ridiculous number if everything was sold in smaller possible denominations.

To be clear I think opioids like this are insanely dangerous and a very very major threat to communities. Lets just not kid ourselves that busting people for $3700 (manufacturing cost) is worth anything for the actual problem at hand.

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