• Dot.@feddit.orgOP
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    27 days ago

    I am confused, that is exactly what the title is saying, right?

    Edit: I believe that is 1.4M pills containing 153 Kgs of fentanyl.

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      27 days ago

      No. It says there was nearly 153 kg of pills. It does not specify how much of that was fentanyl by mass (probably not much, because a pill of pure fentanyl would probably kill you real quick).

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      27 days ago

      From the article:

      1.4 million fentanyl pills totaling 152.98 kilograms.

      This is probably better phrasing.

      The weight of the pills is 153kg, not the weight of the fentanyl within the pills. That is substantially different. Like orders of magnitude off.

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          27 days ago

          It’s misleading, because that’s the weight of the pills, in total. The pills are not pure fentanyl, it’s only a small amount that’s added to the mixture for other drugs. We’re talking like 1000:1 ratios here.

          153 kg of pure fentanyl is an unrealistic amount to exist in general. In reality, there’s probably only a few grams of actual fentanyl in that entire volume.