Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson in Texas said that fentanyl coming across the U.S.–Mexico border should be deemed a “weapon of mass destruction” (WMD).
“Fentanyl is poison that’s being introduced to our country. The illicit manufacturing of this stuff has just gotten crazy with the potency of it,” he told Fox News over the weekend. “The deception by the drug dealers to mix it into the pressed pills trying to sell it as a legal drug that’s a prescription medication.”
Elaborating on the danger, Henderson said that “it only takes 2 milligrams of this stuff to kill you and we’re finding twice, sometimes three times the amount of fentanyl in a pill that’s not supposed to contain any fentanyl.” The county that he oversees is located in southeastern Texas, although it’s hundreds of miles from the border….