The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

(economist.com)

17 points | by runeks 41 minutes ago

3 comments

  • glimshe 0 minutes ago
    "For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, 'I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand distributing.' So they can't resist. I want to control it as a business, to keep it respectable. I don't want it near schools! I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia."
  • hnrprtlpdb 7 minutes ago
    Did wastewater drug monitoring for a while, and the annoying bit was fentanyl metabolites sitting near the detection limit, so absence isn't proof.
  • LastTrain 8 minutes ago
    Or, they may not. TL;DR correlation is not causation.