new synthetic opioid W-18, made in china? & legal in canada? pours over the border to usa.

[Sunlei]

Canadian prison inmate may have helped U.S. dealer import deadly W-18 drug, investigators say.When American police arrested Joseph, they found several thousand grams of drugs in his possession. The largest quantity was an opioid they couldn't even charge him for having: the 100-times-more-toxic-than-fentanyl, invented-in-Alberta, still-legal street drug called W-18.

Joseph's takedown is one of the first stemming from a multi-level undercover operation that tracked secret emails and phone calls from inside a Canadian prison, and linked them to drug shipments in North America and China.

His case opens some of the inner-workings of this international drug ring to the public for the first time, and shows just how easy it has become for dealers to use cell phones, the web and traditional mail to send synthetic drugs around the world.

"The drugs were either being shipped from a facility outside of the jail in Canada, or possibly coming from China. There were other individuals working on the outside to ship the drugs from various locations in Canada," she said.
"I hadn't seen anything like that before."
Neither had Dr. Rob Gordon, professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University and a former police officer who has worked in the United Kingdom, Australia and China.
He calls this case "astonishing," and says it shows W-18 may be so new that even people deep inside the illicit drug trade haven't caught up to it yet.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/canadian-prison-inmate-may-have-helped-u-s-dealer-import-deadly-w-18-drug-investigators-say-1.3561859

[PeoViejo]

1. China, which suffered so much from the Opium trade

in the 19th Century, still have not learned from it.

[Vincardog]

3. They learned, they are exporting it to their former drug pushers.

[PeoViejo]

6. Yes, but it isn't the Queen shooting-up.

The poor carry the most burden. It's the same, everywhere.

[jtuck004]

4. ? We are the ones buying it, consuming it. They profit. Seems they have learned to be a

pharmacy manufacturer.

That seems a better role than the past. And given what is ahead for the US, I suspect there is a lot of pain to be comforted. So a continuing good market.

I do mean pharmacy mfr, btw. Some drugs come with their own little potential to be a one-stop shop in their own right.

[ViseGrip]

2. Ahh...the word trade does come to mind....

[LeftyMom]

5. It's a vet tranquilizer used for exceptionally large animals.