 What's next? Oh fentanyl fentanyl Well, there's a huge fentanyl crisis in this country as you probably know because it's it's in the news and everybody's talking about it constantly and The fentanyl is coming into the United States from Mexico, but there's been a real shift over the last few years In terms of you know, how the fentanyl gets made and where it's coming from there's recently been a new study coming out of the Department of out of the DEA Drug Enforcement Agency and It's if in the past what was happening was fentanyl was smuggled into Mexico from primarily China and Then from Mexico smuggled into the United States The the Mexicans the Mexican cartels have got a lot smarter about it When they were buying the fentanyl from Mexico from the Chinese and smuggling into the US their profit margins were relatively low But what they have figured out is that they can actually smuggle not fentanyl into Mexico But they can smuggle the basically the chemicals that precursor chemicals into fentanyl from China at a very very low cost so they can take 800 dollars worth of chemicals and They can then manufacture the fentanyl in Mexico turning it into pills and powder and $800 turns into $640,000 talk about of a turn in investment When it sells in the United States, so the profit margins are huge the incentives are huge and it turns out that the That the sons of El Chapo the famous drug cartel king You know criminal His sons have now built a network of laboratories across Sinaloa and They are basically smuggling in the precursor chemicals from China China can then say we have nothing to do with the fentanyl trade It's just these chemicals and they're turning these kids chemicals into fence and all and they are making a huge amount of money There is You know the this cash That the cartels get and then is used to bribe politicians and it's used to bribe cops and it's used to buy basically an army of hit man and of Military-grade military-grade equipment and and institutionalizes these cartels in Mexico as a as a real threat to the Mexican government to The the civilians in Mexico and indeed to the to the US One American dies from fentanyl all over those every eight minutes every eight minutes of course the solution to this of course is Is is to legalize fentanyl? It's to legalize all of these drugs to let a market emerge of course if a market emerges Then it won't your first of all prices would plummet remember eight hundred dollars six hundred forty thousand prices would plummet fentanyl would be made in the United States and the competition would be over quality and Instead of selling a drug that kills one American every eight minutes and kills It wasn't over those deaths in the United States Or over a hundred thousand in in 2021 they would have to be able to provide a high without killing people and That would save a lot of lives of the users and of course it would save a lot of lives Who are the victims of the cartels? save a lot of lives of of the war that the war drugs it would also prevent the corruption of Judges and prosecutors and cops and politicians and all you know not just in the United States But in Mexico and all over the world The the only solution to the fentanyl crisis is Not to go to war with Mexico, but it's to legalize fentanyl and legalize all hard drugs And create a real market in them and drive prices down and get rid of get rid of all Good rid of all this violence Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show We make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to Iran book show dot com slash support I'll go to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a Appropriate contribution on any one of those any one of those channels Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow Please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get announcement when we go live and for you Those of you who are ready subscribers and those of you who ready supporters of the show Thank you. I very much appreciate it You