Summary
Trump defended his new tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico as a response to the fentanyl crisis, but experts say overdose deaths have already been declining due to law enforcement efforts and naloxone distribution.
Critics argue tariffs will harm trade and cooperation while failing to curb fentanyl trafficking, most of which occurs at the U.S.-Mexico border. Just 10 lbs were seized from Canada.
Canada and Mexico condemned the tariffs, with Mexico threatening countermeasures.
Experts say naloxone access and cartel crackdowns, not tariffs, are driving overdose reductions.
INB4 Trump/Musk/RFK notice that “naloxone distribution” is a thing and abolish it, so fentanyl overdose deaths start going up instead of down.
I think it’s effectively Republican policy to be okay with letting Fentayl users overdose. They don’t want to solve the drug problem, because it only exists due to mismanagement of government to enable companies to profit off of it by prison labor.
If all drugs were decriminalized, a massive social program to destigmatize the users, and have government-ran areas to enable drug testing, needle exchanges, and welfare programs to get people out of stressful situations that make people turn to hard drugs in the first place, we’d kill the “drug epidemic” by the next administration.
Instead of doing any of that, or even legalizing weed for tax revenue, we’re going to arrest them all because putting the people in jail looks good on camera and re-election, instead of wanting to be human to fellow humans.
— Them, probably.