If Trump is killing off cocaine drug runners (in Venezuela boats) so there will be less

[applegrove]

cocaine in the US, will addicts in the USA turn to Fentanyl and die more often? Anyone know?

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. He isn't killing any cocaine mules, he is pardoning them.

[Norrrm]

7. Pardon drug traffickers

[Emile]

2. I think he's demanding payoff from the cartels, for safe passage for their boats.

[Blues Heron]

3. It won't have the slightest effect except short term price increases.

[Clouds Passing]

4. The gqpcia is the largest illegal drug dealing organization in the us.

My son died from an overdose of illegal fentanyl

[applegrove]

8. So sorry for your loss.

[Clouds Passing]

9. Thank you applegrove. Me too.

[applegrove]

10. I don't have kids. I can't imagine how hard it is to

lose one. My thoughts are with you.

[Clouds Passing]

11. ...

[yardwork]

15. I'm so sorry for your loss.

How heartbreaking.

[brer cat]

20. I'm very sorry for the loss of your son, Clouds Passing.

It is just heartbreaking!

[Norrrm]

5. Trump's republicans smuggle fentanyl.

[purr-rat beauty]

12. Yup

I remember that story...but the media not so much

These assaults are part of the corruption trifecta

Intimidation
Epstein distraction
And election disruption

[Johonny]

6. According to the Bulwark cocain prices are down

Meaning supplies are up. It is almost like as if they are blowing up boats not trafficking drugs to the US because they're fucking evil assholes.

[lame54]

13. Less fish in Venezuela...

Is all he's accomplishing

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Fentanyl is an opoid - an analgesic and sedative

while cocaine is a stimulant. If anyone sees one as an alternative to the other, they're in the "I just want drugs of any kind" stage.

[applegrove]

17. I just heard on the news cocaine, heroin and precursor chemicals

to fentanyl come by boat in the Caribbean.

[Emile]

18. Exactly, two very different types of drugs.

[yardwork]

16. Even if those boats had cocaine on them - which I doubt -

It would be a tiny drop of the supply. No impact.

[AZJonnie]

19. Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs

Uppers vs Downers, essentially. And neither drug can be substituted to significantly mediate the effects of withdrawals from the other. There's not nearly the same direct line as the one that can be drawn between, say, the stricter enforcement of Rx laws over pharmaceutical opioids leading to more people taking (much more deadly) illicit fentanyl and heroin.

But sure, there would some who might switch to the opioids if cocaine were unavailable, with potentially deadly consequences. It's likely a lot more would turn to meth though, as it's much more similar to cocaine in effect.