Colorado Rep Lauren Boebert introduced new legislation that seeks to classify the opioid fentanyl, which can be lethal if not administered by a trained medical professional, as a weapon of mass destruction. “It is time to call fentanyl what it is: a weapon of mass destruction that is destroying our nation,” the congresswoman wrote in a press release introducing the “Fentanyl is a WMD Act” on Monday. “The saddest thing about the fentanyl crisis is that it is preventable,” the Republican congresswoman wrote, adding that, “national security experts know that the vast majority of deadly fentanyl plaguing our communities comes across the southern border.”Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction. “Fentanyl’s high toxicity and increasing availability are attractive to threat actors seeking nonconventional materials for a chemical weapons attack," wrote James McDonnell, the then-DHS assistant secretary for countering weapons of mass destruction, in the February 2019 memo. “Not only is illicit fentanyl being used by drug traffickers to poison thousands of unsuspecting Americans, it is also a chemical weapon that poses a very real threat in the wrong hands,” Families Against Fentanyl founder James Rauh stated in the letter.

Source: Fox News June 15, 2022 02:04 UTC