DEA Allows Fentynal to Hit Streets
The DEA plays God with dangerous drug
6/23/20262 min read
My opinion on drug usage is basic… and somewhat brutal. Legalize all drugs, tax them, and use the money for rehabilitation. For those who don’t want rehabilitation, let the herd be culled. One can’t force people to give a damn about themselves - some brains just aren’t “wired” straight. With that in mind, here’s a story of government hypocrisy.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records.
DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills, but did not seize them as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers. In other words, government agents intentionally chose to let people die in order to get a bigger score on their tally sheet.
The tactic amounts to a gamble with public safety and imperils communities in and around Albuquerque. It likely violated U.S. Justice Department rules. Fentanyl is so dangerous that U.S. Justice Department guidelines encourage agents to seize the opioid whenever “practicable.” I would call it practicable each and every time unless agents are outgunned and outnumbered at the time.
The DEA has long contended it would not be plausible to seize every shipment of every drug. Not only that, but definitely impossible. However, allowing staggering amounts of counterfeit painkillers to hit the streets when laws state otherwise is hypocritical.
Albuquerque has a neighborhood simply known as “War Zone”, and New Mexico remains at the epicenter of the fentanyl epidemic. While overdose deaths nationwide fell 14% last year, government’s own data show New Mexico tallied a 21% spike.
In one case, agents wrote that traffickers delivered 74,000 pills as part of a deal, as confirmed in a court filing. Another DEA report showed investigators watched the same distribution ring deliver a spare tire hiding another fentanyl shipment that similarly was not seized.
A former DEA supervisor, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said he and his Albuquerque colleagues allowed 1.8 million pills to go unseized during a multi-state investigation last year that eventually nabbed 3 million pills.
One agent stated, “The bigger fish are worth catching, and that will save more lives.” Try telling that to the families of those who have already died from fentanyl that was left on the streets. Tell them that the government does put a price on your children and friends. It’s shameful.
Justice Department rules afford law enforcement discretion. Protocols say investigators “may exercise discretion in determining whether to take action to prevent the trafficking of fentanyl, balancing public safety risks against “the benefits to be achieved through preserving the investigation.”
In other words, they have discretion to decide how important every person’s life is. As I often say, government is not your friend, it is your enemy. The War on Drugs has been a huge failure ever since it began five decades ago. It’s time to legalize, tax, educate, and rehabilitate. It would be better than what’s happening now... government playing God with your loved ones.
Source used: Associated Press
