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applegrove

(131,745 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:06 AM Dec 2025

If Trump is killing off cocaine drug runners (in Venezuela boats) so there will be less

cocaine in the US, will addicts in the USA turn to Fentanyl and die more often? Anyone know?

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If Trump is killing off cocaine drug runners (in Venezuela boats) so there will be less (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2025 OP
He isn't killing any cocaine mules, he is pardoning them. Ferrets are Cool Dec 2025 #1
Pardon drug traffickers Norrrm Dec 2025 #7
I think he's demanding payoff from the cartels, for safe passage for their boats. Emile Dec 2025 #2
It won't have the slightest effect except short term price increases. Blues Heron Dec 2025 #3
The gqpcia is the largest illegal drug dealing organization in the us. Clouds Passing Dec 2025 #4
So sorry for your loss. applegrove Dec 2025 #8
Thank you applegrove. Me too. Clouds Passing Dec 2025 #9
I don't have kids. I can't imagine how hard it is to applegrove Dec 2025 #10
... Clouds Passing Dec 2025 #11
I'm so sorry for your loss. yardwork Dec 2025 #15
I'm very sorry for the loss of your son, Clouds Passing. brer cat Dec 2025 #20
Trump's republicans smuggle fentanyl. Norrrm Dec 2025 #5
Yup purr-rat beauty Dec 2025 #12
According to the Bulwark cocain prices are down Johonny Dec 2025 #6
Less fish in Venezuela... lame54 Dec 2025 #13
Fentanyl is an opoid - an analgesic and sedative muriel_volestrangler Dec 2025 #14
I just heard on the news cocaine, heroin and precursor chemicals applegrove Dec 2025 #17
Exactly, two very different types of drugs. Emile Dec 2025 #18
Even if those boats had cocaine on them - which I doubt - yardwork Dec 2025 #16
Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs AZJonnie Dec 2025 #19

Clouds Passing

(7,829 posts)
4. The gqpcia is the largest illegal drug dealing organization in the us.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:17 AM
Dec 2025

My son died from an overdose of illegal fentanyl



purr-rat beauty

(1,201 posts)
12. Yup
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:19 PM
Dec 2025

I remember that story...but the media not so much

These assaults are part of the corruption trifecta

Intimidation
Epstein distraction
And election disruption

Johonny

(26,024 posts)
6. According to the Bulwark cocain prices are down
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:26 AM
Dec 2025

Meaning supplies are up. It is almost like as if they are blowing up boats not trafficking drugs to the US because they're fucking evil assholes.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,052 posts)
14. Fentanyl is an opoid - an analgesic and sedative
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:33 PM
Dec 2025

while cocaine is a stimulant. If anyone sees one as an alternative to the other, they're in the "I just want drugs of any kind" stage.

applegrove

(131,745 posts)
17. I just heard on the news cocaine, heroin and precursor chemicals
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:39 PM
Dec 2025

to fentanyl come by boat in the Caribbean.

yardwork

(69,263 posts)
16. Even if those boats had cocaine on them - which I doubt -
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:38 PM
Dec 2025

It would be a tiny drop of the supply. No impact.

AZJonnie

(3,582 posts)
19. Some might, but they are inherently very different drugs
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:26 PM
Dec 2025

Uppers vs Downers, essentially. And neither drug can be substituted to significantly mediate the effects of withdrawals from the other. There's not nearly the same direct line as the one that can be drawn between, say, the stricter enforcement of Rx laws over pharmaceutical opioids leading to more people taking (much more deadly) illicit fentanyl and heroin.

But sure, there would some who might switch to the opioids if cocaine were unavailable, with potentially deadly consequences. It's likely a lot more would turn to meth though, as it's much more similar to cocaine in effect.

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