The attorney general in Florida is calling the Biden administration to declare illicit fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction” as fentanyl trafficking and overdose deaths soar.
“Given how many Americans are being murdered, the whole federal government and every tactic and capability that we have should be utilized to stop the death and destruction that fentanyl is causing,” Ashley Moody wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden dated July 18.
A weapon of mass destruction, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is “a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people.” Such a designation would require the DHS and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to work with the Department of Defense to curb the fentanyl crisis, Moody said….