Weeks before Halloween 2022, Police Agencies across North America and Canada, from the DEA, and RCMP to local Police Agencies warned parents about “rainbow fentanyl”, a new version of synthetic opioid pills made specifically for children’s use. Available in yellow, green, pink, and other bright colors, this designer substance was made to attract children and hopefully create a deeper youth market for illicit drugs. Parents were warned that these items could be planted into their children’s candy stashes, gathered during Halloween, and possibly consumed. Easily mistook for favored items such as skittles, a possible health emergency existed.
Good news everybody. Teo days have passed and according to authorities, not one report was made concerning these items being found or consumed. Did the authority’s warnings work, or was this a social media hoax? The authorities know illicit pills are being made in North America, M-30’s to be exact. The Cartels have been cooking up fentanyl in hidden labs, making painkillers in pill forms for illegal distribution and sale. The Cartels have been dying these white pills in multiple colors for various reasons. These are sold to locals requiring color identification (identify distributorship), or as a way to increase sales to children. There have been multiple cases of high schoolers dying after taking blue M-30s, likely because they did not expect fentanyl to be present.
The DEA announced this October, that brightly colored fentanyl pills have turned up in 26 States. During the present American election Republicans have weaponized the threat these pills present, claiming these drugs are being brought into America by illegal migrants. In true form, Fox News has been the main culprit weaponizing The Right’s fear of illegal migrants and the importing of illicit drugs into America. Claiming that illicit drugs can be found in skittle boxes possibly given to children during Halloween, Fox News championed the safety of America’s Children while pushing its anti-migrant agenda. This past August a dealer was caught with 15,000 colorful fentanyl pills inside a Lego Box. The purpose of colorizing the pills was given as a way to brand the product.
The death of many children seemed as bad for business, so Cartels began purposefully colorizing these pills as a way to identify what they were and what they contain. The color banding effect of attracting children was realized later. Authorities have realized that colorful gummies provided by Weed suppliers are attractive to children. Many accidental situations have occurred where a child consuming these gummies end up in the hospital or worse.
While any attempt to addict children seems unrealistic, no one has said Cartels are made up of rocket scientists either. Children have no real funds, and the piggy bank for a Cartel can be found among the children’s parents.
When in doubt, separate, investigate and throw out. Better still, pass anything you suspect to the authorities. Imagine the harm you could do to your neighborhood’s water cycle by throwing fentanyl into the sink.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
skaszab@yahoo.ca
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