The Democrats’ desperate effort to make the 2022 election about abortion and President Donald Trump is not working.
News reports suggest Americans are more worried about fentanyl and our open borders.
A few weeks ago, my colleague Mary Chastain noted a Texas sheriff viewed the deadly opioid fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction.”
Now several state attorney generals are demanding the U.S. government officially label the drug as a WMD.
The attorneys general said they’re troubled by the numbers showing that 75,000 U.S. adults in the country were killed by fentanyl poisoning between February 2021 and February 2022. They said their unorthodox request is a proactive step at preventing unimaginable consequences.The bipartisan group said that the fentanyl crisis has evolved from prescription drugs to heroin to synthetic opioids, including fentanyl. New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said the drug could be the No. 1 cause of death in all states, including New Hampshire, by the end of the year.”Fentanyl is particularly lethal,” Formella said. “It can take only 2 milligrams to kill an adult. It is packaged in certain ways now that it can be particularly attractive to kids. It can be laced into other drugs.”Officials said there has been a big influx of fentanyl in Manchester and Nashua in the past year.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron also wants the drug classified as a weapon of mass destruction.
Cameron has joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general calling on President Biden to respond to the record increase in overdose deaths related to fentanyl.In the letter addressed to the president last week, they cite the CDC’s overdose data stating that in the 12-month period ending in February of this year, more than 75,000 Americans died from overdose of synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl.According to the 2021 Kentucky overdose fatality report, fentanyl was identified in more than 1,600 overdose deaths of Kentuckians. That’s nearly 73% of all overdose deaths for the year.“Fentanyl is certainly a threat. It’s a threat not just to Kentucky, but all Americans. It’s the leading cause of death for individuals ages 18-35, which is extremely scary,” said Pat Fogarty, the COO of Addiction Recovery Care.
In addition to New Hampshire and Kentucky, the attorneys general for Arkansas, Guam, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginal signed the letter to Biden.
Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations. He also sent a letter to Biden Harris asking them to label the cartels as terroristic organizations.
Fentanyl is a clandestine killer, and Texans are falling victim to the Mexican cartels that are producing it,” said Governor Abbott. “Cartels are terrorists, and it’s time we treated them that way. In fact, more Americans died from fentanyl poisoning in the past year than all terrorist attacks across the globe in the past 100 years. In order to save our country, particularly our next generation, we must do more to get fentanyl off our streets.Governor Abbott also directed DPS and law enforcement agencies to identify Texas gangs that support Mexican drug cartels and seize their assets in order to disrupt cartel networks operating in Texas communities, as thousands of Texans have been poisoned unwittingly by counterfeit pills laced with the deadly synthetic opioid.
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