Posted on 09/08/2019 11:17:31 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Melissa and Daryl McKinsey first heard about “Mexican Oxy” last year when their 19-year-old son Parker called in tears.
“I need to go to rehab,” he said.
Several months earlier, a friend had given Parker a baby-blue pill that was stamped on one side with the letter M.
It resembled a well-known brand of oxycodone, the prescription painkiller that sparked the American opioid epidemic.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Well written article exposing the truth and printed in of all places the Los Angeles Times.
Yet another reason to boycott Communist China and have a trade embargo slapped on that filthy country.
As they will just ship the shit to Mexico and have it smuggled across the border, as they lost their USPS conduit.
Inspect everything coming in from Communist China. If it takes months to years of customs inspections, so be it. The stuff just rots on the docks.
Not made in Mexico.
Made in China and assembled in Mexico.
China should know better than to start an Opium War with the US.
Inspect everything from China, and inspect and seize Chinese shipments to Mexico on the high seas until they stop.
Innocent Americans are being targeted by the these drug dealers of death.
Nobody is making the victims put that crap inside them.
Made in Mexico? Unlikely.
Made in China. Shipped through Mexico because of our infamously uncontrolled border controlled by trafficking cartels.
Who is holding a gun to their heads? Just ask them to have a list of next-of-kin on them, so we know who to charge for the burial.
“...Today, officials say the majority is smuggled from Mexico,..”
And yet these filthy politicians and lawyers are suing legitimate pain killer manufacturers out of business and making doctors afraid to prescribe for the suffering.
Aren’t tariffs were supposed to cure all problems with imports?
Their experience tells them that the country that starts an opium war wins it, I'm certain they haven't forgotten how well the British Empire did in their opium war with the Chinese Qing Dynasty.
We are dealing with two countries who tolerate criminal behavior as part of their culture. China and Mexico. We need to make it tough on both of them but our elite leaders are making money off them too. What should we do? How can we best protect our citizens and our country?
Sorry to sound unsympathetic, no not unsympathetic just realistic and yes, adult, since when do we take unknown drugs of any kind because a so-called friend gives us one?
Yes, I’ve been in situations when an onset of a massive headache comes on and I’m unable to leave a meeting, presentation, etc. where I ask if someone I know has an aspirin to lend me but take something unknown because someone unsolicited offers it to me, not on your life! I’m adult enough to realize that anyone offering me drugs, does not have my best interests at heart.
Why can’t these parents help their kids realize this much earlier than when they are in such a situation? End of story
Will the Left demand that the LA Times remove this “racist” article for suggesting bad things can come across the border? After all, if you want border barriers raised to reduce things like deadly drugs, human trafficking, violent gang activity, etc. you are a racist, xenophobe, etc.
You’re right. Let’s give up. Let China and Mexico bring all of the Fentanyl they want into the USA
In the last 12 months I have evicted two formerly middle class tenants. Each were white, had two children and the woman got involved in drugs. Both houses were wrecks when I got them back. Around the same time, I evicted a painter tenant who was an alcoholic. That I spent about $12,000 refurbishing that property. The fifty year old white woman who became my new tenant has just been arrested for the third time and is spending six months in jail for a probation violation. (I knew there was a problem when I hadn’t heard from her and I stopped by. She was squatted on the floor cleaning the corners with Q-tips. She barely looked at me but assured me she was, “Fine. Just fine. Great.” As we left my helper said, “Well, look at it this way, it will be a quick turnaround.”)
They also tried sneaking in some of their sick pig meat, hidden in with noodles and other cargo.
Trump needs to tell Xi to knock this shit off right effing now, or the tariffs are going to double while we open every crate and container. Just for starters.
China should know better than to start an Opium War with the US.
Incomplete article. No follow up on the older brother Parker.
thoughtomator wrote: “Made in China. Shipped through Mexico because of our infamously uncontrolled border controlled by trafficking cartels.”
Yes, and the trafficking cartels are on both sides of the border. Build the Wall, deport them all! Enforce the laws, illegal is illegal. No sanctuary for illegal border crossing criminals. They chose to come here the illegal way rather than the legal way. They give aid and comfort to our enemies. They are killing Americans (MS13). Long past time we had a leader willing to take on the problem. A man of the People for the People. Best President ever!
MAGA
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China has not forgotten. They are playing the long game.
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