Fentanyl Bust In Nebraska Seizes 118 Pounds Of Opioid Drug Enough To Kill 26 Million People
Source: Tech Times
The Nebraska State Patrol made a history-making drug bust as it seized 118 pounds of the opiate drug fentanyl last month.
Largest Fentanyl Seizure In Nebraska
The bust is the largest fentanyl seizure in the history of Nebraska and among the largest in the United States.
The drugs were seized during a routine traffic stop. Nebraska State Patrol Col. John Bolduc said that the troopers became suspicious of a semi-truck that was driving on the shoulder lane, prompting them to search the vehicle, which eventually led to the discovery of the illicit drugs concealed in a hidden compartment.
The troopers did not immediately test the drugs out of caution given the dangerous nature of the substance. They initially thought that most of the drugs were cocaine but further testing revealed these was all fentanyl.
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Yeah, why is it always guys in cars loaded with cocaine or meth or whatever, it's always that they're pulled over for speeding? 
Maybe the cops got a tip and were already following that truck. They just waited for the driver to make a mistake so they could pull him over. That happens more than most people realize.
...a truck with nothing in its actual cargo area, hidden under a panel, looking like this:
The article in the OP is from a tech publication. From a local news source:
...Troopers stopped an eastbound 2013 Freightliner semitrailer truck driving on the shoulder near mile marker 280.
According to court records, the truck had U.S. Mail markings and faded markings from another company. The trooper followed the truck with emergency lights for two miles before the truck finally pulled over.
The troopers became suspicious because the truck was empty, there was no electronic log, the driver was nervous and visibly shaking, and the driver and passenger had different stories about why they were in California for 10 days, according to the probable cause affidavit.
When troopers searched the vehicle they found a hidden compartment with the drugs in the otherwise empty trailer.
About a year ago I was trying to source psilocybin mushrooms (also know as "magic" mushrooms or simply "shrooms"
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I was wanting to experiment with micro dosing.
Many decades ago I had a lot of experience with shrooms and acid. I have first hand experience with strangely enhanced performance--both physical and intellectual--when under the influence. However, my current position and lifestyle would not allow being up all night tripping or walking around with the pupils of my eyes dilated so far as to make my eyes a strange, shiny black. Plus it is pretty hard to act normal when you're tripping your brains out.
But microdosing might allow me to tap into that thing that I tapped into back when I was a teenager.
Now, what in the fuck does this have to do with a fentanyl bust in Nebraska you are asking yourself?
It's really quite simple and it has to do with shopping. On the dark web.
In my pursuit I downloaded the Tor browser, a Tor add-on that allows for searching the dark web... then jumped out into the dark web.
Within 15 minutes of amateurish exploration I found one of the major online drug marketplaces (since shut down by a major FBI/Interpol bust) and discovered a number of things.
One was that I shit out of luck in terms of sourcing shrooms.
Two, I could get LSD in a number of strengths: 50 mcg, 100 mcg, and a 150 mcg (*mcg is micrograms). Then I decided to look for hydrocodone and other opiate analogs. Hydrocodone and Oxycodone--no problem. Cheap and orderable by the pound. Dextrmethorphan? Yep. Amphetamines? Yeah, buddy!
Then I decided to search for fentanyl--not because I wanted any but because of all the news about overdose deaths.
And there it was.
Fentanyl and carfentanyl by the ounce, kilo, pound--whatever you want. Carfentanyl has no know safe human dose. Fentanyl in very small quantities is used as an anesthetic and pain killer for intractable cancer pain. It is lethal in very small doses. Fentanyl is hard to take safely--especially if you don't even know it is in what you're taking. Prince died because he took what he thought was oxycodone (Percocet or Percodan). It was fentanyl. Tom Petty. Same deal. He thought he was taking one thing and it turned out to be fentanyl (A pin head of carfentanyl can kill almost anyone. Again, it is not not intended for human use at all.).
With bitcoin, other digital currencies, or a Western Union funds transfer I could have bought any of this. It would have been completely untraceable. Guess where all this is coming from? Yeah, you got it...China.
I could have become a major drug dealer with a few mouse clicks. Have the product sent to a purchased mailbox and there would be no way to trace anything.
And that is what is going on today. You still have to smuggle heroin and cocaine. Fentanyl you can just buy off the dark web and have it mailed to a mail box. There's really no way to stem this particular tide. Not unless we start opening every package that comes from China via UPS, Fedex, and DHL.
The truth of the matter is that, except in rare instances, people are not dying from prescribed opiates.
Rather, when they get cut off they turn to the black market.
The black market's supply chain is completely polluted with fentanyl and carfentanyl. There are even anecdotes that dealers and cutting cocaine with fentanyl. It is cheap and plentiful.
People will continue to die while our government, which is still addicted to interdiction, tries to solve a medical problem with harsh law enforcement.
The problem could be solved with legalization of all drugs--even the "bad" ones. So that people know what they're buying. So, that when these people want to get off the drugs they can access medical help.
This bust changes nothing. It is only going to get worse until we, as a nation, come to our senses and make it all legal. Remember, we didn't have much of a drug problems until the drug prohibition.
