cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/42569942

No fentanyl had been seized at Japan’s borders in the six years through 2024, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday, after a media report alleged a Chinese group in Japan smuggled chemicals into the United States to make the synthetic drug.

  • BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    My gut tells me that the Fentanyl problem was created by the US government. I don’t think anyone asked to have their cocaine laced with opiates. I feel like making drugs as lethal as the conservatives have always been lying about is part of project 2025.

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    5 hours ago

    -having no personal insight/knowledge of japan’s drug scene, just my impressions-

    Saying you’ve found none in six years, doesn’t make me think there’s none comming through; I immediately think you haven’t been looking very hard.

    Finding very little I could understand, but NONE? Na, you need to try harder.

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    19 hours ago

    That’s probably indicative of widespread and effective corruption and quality of smuggling operations to prevent a single loss of product! /S

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        10 hours ago

        Yeah all governments have a tendency to sweep problems under the rug, but Japan are a whole other level. They NEVER admit to anything ever being wrong.