AMLO slams US 'spying' after traffickers charged

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cartel-violence-drugs-lopez-obrador-0151fa0f418c62aac1738fbffefec8b5

AMLO continues to insist that fentanyl is not produced in Mexico, and it is a US problem. A couple excerpts from the AP article.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president lashed out Monday at what he called U.S. “spying” and “interference” in Mexico, days after U.S. prosecutors announced charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartel for smuggling massive amounts of fentanyl into the United States.

López Obrador own administration has acknowledged finding dozens of labs where fentanyl is produced in Mexico from Chinese precursor chemicals, mainly in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Most illegal fentanyl is pressed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit pills made to look like other medications like Xanax, oxycodone, or mixed into other drugs, including heroin and cocaine. Many people who die of overdoses in the United States do not know they are taking fentanyl.

He's right. THE PROBLEM isn't anywhere else but in the USA. Why in the world do so many of their citizens even want this substance? But since obviously so many do, and they're overdosing on it because it doesn't come in a regulated standardized well-measured form like alcohol, pecker pills or "legal" antidepressants, it makes a helluva lot more sense to LEGALIZE IT, TREAT THE ADDICTS, and maybe make an effort to ameliorate over 80 years of FAILED DRUG POLICIES by making it safer for folks to do the recreational substances they want to do and obviously are going to acquire no matter what. Better the local pharmacy than the back-alley dealer peddling the crap produced by violent organized criminals who only care about the multi-billion dollar a year black market the U.S. government hands them on a silver plate. Oh, look, they arrested a few. For every arrest there are a thousand more violent less ethical ambitious gangbangers eager to take their place. You'd almost think the only reason the war on drugs exists is to keep the budgets flowing to all those federal, state and local police departments dedicated to busting dealers and users.

Blaming the folks supplying the demand is futile, counterproductive, and simply stupid. As time has proven. As is blaming the folks who use recreational substances.