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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 days ago

'Millions of lethal doses' of heroin were actually 99.999% water in federal 'drug' bust

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'Millions of lethal doses' of heroin were actually 99.999% water in federal 'drug' bust

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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 days ago
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Historic drug bust in PNW, lauded by federal authorities, turns out to be mostly water
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Last January, four men were arrested at a Motel 6 Tigard after allegedly carrying eight barrels of liquid heroin, which turned out to be 99.999% water.
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    I grew up in a house with hippie grandparents. When I got older we would always have fun laughing at drug busts stating how much money the agency said was worth. This is just a shame.

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    A little besides the point, but still: Who would even count lethal doses in the first place? Is that just a scare tactic? Surely they would know enough about the drugs they are enforcing against to know the average or typical dose?

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The ATF once seized a shipment of airsoft guns by claiming “they could be modified to shoot real bullets”.

      The ATF knows how guns work. They know that’s an absurd thing to say. They don’t make these claims to actually protect anyone.

      • halloween_spookster@lemmy.world
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        The ATF dude who showed off the haul didn’t know how to insert a magazine into those “rifles”

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Surely they would know enough about the drugs

      lol these people are fash… don’t know, don’t care. Just here to put people in cages.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
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      I think it’s about figuring out how many charges to throw at the guys, not that it matters because it’s water. LOL.

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    Let’s start a conspiracy theory. Although these days everything can be true:

    It was heroine but someone in the police department syphoned the heroine, replaced with water and agreed with the defendant that they’ll get a slap on the wrist if they followed along.

    So, now, someone has some heroine on sale!

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      So, now, someone has some heroine on sale!

      Joan of Arc?

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Celestine. Games Workshop also makes drugs, but they come on plastic runners.

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    It kinda sounds like those drums were previously used for heroin or the cops had just kinda framed them entirely by tossing something in water drums.

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    When your dealer is into homeopathy

    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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      That’s some weak-ass homeopathic heroin, only 5X / 2C (I have no idea if 2.5C would sound nonsensical to a homeopath). Gotta dilute that a lot more times, that’s how you make it more potent. Effing 19th century pseudoscience.

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    My goodness. Well, folks, we finally did it. We convinced the people in power that dihydrogen monoxide really is deadly.

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    To be fair, they weren’t 99.999% water until after they were blasted into the ocean by a hellfire missile.

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      Don’t care still having a hit

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    The only H in that heroin was for homeopathy

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    This is gonna be a stupid question but is heroin a liquid? I always assumed it was some sort of crystal

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      It has different bases it can be in, depending how its processed or how many steps its processed. Street heroin in america could be water soluble or not depending on location. Sometimes you need to add something to make it react to make it water soluble, other times its already in water soluble form. You need it to be water soluble to snort or inject it.

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        This guy injects

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          Couldn’t bring myself to do it but did try snooting! Would not recommend!

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      Sooo… it’s complicated.

      To produce heroin you need a specific species of poppy, called oddly enough an “opium poppy”.

      You gently slice the heads of the poppy to extract a milky liquid. That’s the base for a whole HOST of drugs depending on how you process it, but yes, it starts life as a liquid.

      Opium sap -> Morphine -> Heroin.

      Man, now I’m envisioning a whole series of black market “How It’s Made” videos.

      https://youtu.be/6o4zOMNlSco

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        Probably more of a suspension than just a liquid, but chemistry was never my strong suit

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      It’s typically sold as a powder, “cooked up” into a liquid by dissolving in water, then injected.

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    They got the decoy shipment

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Water! Ordinary water!

    Laced with nothing more than a few drops of heroin.

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      Yeah, but it was from a tap so they’re committing a crime against Nestle

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    These were always full of water, I promise.

    Jokes aside, isn’t all tapwater just diluted heroin when you think about it?

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      Jokes aside, isn’t all tapwater just diluted heroin when you think about it?

      If you were into homeopathy, you’d claim that diluted heroin is more potent than the stuff you buy on the street! 💁‍♂️

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      You drink diluted piss. Think about it.

      • 60d@lemmy.ca
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        And all piss has heroin in it.

        • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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          You’re welcome.

        • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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          The basis of homeopathy.

        • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
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          So how much more do i need to inject before i feel something?

          • 60d@lemmy.ca
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            Just keep going until it works. Someone on here said 6 liters within 3 hours, I think.

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              Thanks for the quick response. I’m just going to connect the IV bag to the catheter for max efficiency.

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                The body does not produce enough. You need to hook up at least 4 of your friends directly into your veins

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                  Guys this is getting complicated and I don’t feel anything. I’m just going to go to the back of the Wendy’s…

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    Told you dihydrogen monoxide was deadly.

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    Homeoperoin.

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