{"id":61027,"date":"2022-12-07T02:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T08:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=61027"},"modified":"2022-12-07T02:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T08:15:23","slug":"border-news-fentanyl-and-the-chinese-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/border-news-fentanyl-and-the-chinese-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Border News: Fentanyl and the Chinese Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61031\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/12\/fentanyl2.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2022\/12\/mexican-cartels-have-turned-to-fentanyl\/\">Mexican cartels have turned to fentanyl<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>&#8220;Since that record bust, Mexican traffickers have gradually shifted the core of their business from plant-based drugs to synthetic drugs \u2014 those created using man-made chemicals. These include meth and illegally-made fentanyl as well as others, such as ketamine. Synthetic drugs are cheaper to produce and more lethal, with fentanyl many times more powerful than heroin. To churn out these synthetics, cartels followed Ye Gon\u2019s lead to forge an unholy alliance with shady elements of the Asian chemical industry.&#8221;<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61030\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/12\/fentanyl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican cartels have turned to fentanyl &nbsp; &#8220;Since that record bust, Mexican traffickers have gradually shifted the core of their business from plant-based drugs to synthetic drugs \u2014 those created using man-made chemicals. These include meth and illegally-made fentanyl as well as others, such as ketamine. Synthetic drugs are cheaper to produce and more lethal,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3011,5150,2351,13,74,3688,2620,3986,483,484,5984,5985,2352,7988],"tags":[2406,13742,2436,15355,6948,5803,3742],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}