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Drug-sniffing dog finds multiple packages hidden in car’s spare tire and gas tank
By Jennie Taer
Daily Caller News Foundation
Border Patrol agents seized 250 pounds of fentanyl, enough to potentially kill everyone living on the west coast of the country, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Monday.
The border agents confiscated the drugs after pulling over a U.S. citizen driver of a 2015 Black GMC truck near Campo, California, where a drug sniffing dog found multiple packages of fentanyl hidden in the car’s spare tire and its gas tank, according to CBP.
Using the DEA’s metric that one kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people, the seizure contained over 56 million doses. The seizure has an estimated street value of $3,679,000, according to CBP.
The population of California, Oregon and Washington combined is around 51,000,000, according to 2021 Census Bureau data.
Prior to 1914, and the Harrison Narcotics Act, heroin, mophine, and opium were all legal in the United States. There was no criminal justice problem associated with the use of those opioids and, as more people became aware of their addictive properties, addiction rates were leveling off.
I am not here to promote the use of any drug, alcohol and tobacco included. I am here to promote and protect the concept of inalienable rights. It is the right of any adult (and only adults) to the full and complete use of their body, even if it harms them or kills them, just so long as their actions do not violate the rights of others. (Refer to “no criminal justice problem,” above.)
There would be no fentanyl crisis if it were not for the war on drugs. The war on drugs is a war on the inalienable right of an adult to do what they will with the property of their body and mind. Again, just so long as they do not violate the rights of others.
I am no the only one saying this. Read Robert McNamara’s piece, “The American Junkie.” https://www.hoover.org/research/american-junkie. Mr. McNamara was a 35 year police veteran and was the Police Chief of both Kansas City, Mo, and San Jose, CA, before becoming a Stanford University, Hoover Institution Fellow.
Also, read my treatise on “The Myth of Inalienable Rights,” free at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1088751.
We would not have the drug overdose problem in the U.S. without the war on drugs which is really a war on rights if the opioid users could get their drugs legally and safely like others do with alcohol and tobaco, both of which have far higher deaths rates due to their usage than all the presently illegal drugs.