Chemical weapon for sale: China’s unregulated narcotic
The Associated Press identified 12 Chinese vendors willing to export carfentanil to the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and Australia, in quantities that could kill millions of people, no questions asked.
The United States government is concerned that carfentanil, a powerful opioid that has caused a rash of overdose deaths, could be used as a chemical weapon and has discussed the matter with China, the State Department said Friday in response to an Associated Press investigation. “Agents like carfentanil could be used in lethal doses that would make them comparable to traditional nerve agents, raising concerns that they could be used as chemical weapons,” a State Department official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
Original Article (AP News):
Chemical weapon for sale: China’s unregulated narcotic
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