US Declares Fentanyl a WMD to Strengthen Fight Against Drug Crisis
TL;DR
President Trump designated fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, empowering the DEA with more tools to combat its flow into the U.S., especially targeting Mexican drug cartels, which are now considered terrorists due to their role in trafficking the drug, seen as a national security threat.
- Designating fentanyl as a WMD gives DEA 'more tools' to fight it, administrator says ABC News
- Drugs are WMDs in Trump’s undeclared war CNN
- Trump designates street fentanyl as a WMD, escalating militarization of the drug war NPR
- An Anchorage fentanyl activist told the president the drug should be classified as a WMD. Now it is. Anchorage Daily News
- The US in brief: Words of war The Economist
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