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why are drug dealers poisoning their own customers by sneaking

fentanyl into other drugs?

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There have been all these stories about people dying from fentanyl laced drugs.

I read these stories in the news, I just hear them in my community, fentanyl laced cocaine,

Xanax, synthetic weed.

I recently read about fentanyl showing up in store-bought weed gummies outside Philadelphia,

although the test there seemed a bit inconclusive.

But the question I've always had seemed kind of like a simple one, maybe bordering on naive.

Why would a drug dealer do this?

Like why would you sneak a very lethal drug into drugs that are much less lethal, or in some cases not lethal at all.

I want to say I am a sophisticated enough adult to understand that drug dealers are not

like the most well-regulated or universally altruistic class of business person.

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