APD reassures there’s no evidence that contaminated marijuana is “prevalent in our community”
Keen observers of drug-related current events have heard this one before, so much that “fentanyl-laced marijuana” might evoke a similar eye-roll as “apples with razor blades inside”The most common message I’ve received over the last 10 days has been: “Should I be worried about there being fentanyl in weed?”
A public information officer for APD confirmed to The Austin Chronic on Monday that both the seized crack cocaine and suspected marijuana “tested positive for traces of fentanyl during presumptive field tests” and that definitive lab tests on the substances had not yet been conducted. “Currently, there is no evidence to indicate that marijuana potentially contaminated with fentanyl is prevalent in our community,” APD’s media representative tells The Austin Chronic, although APD Lt. Patrick Eastlick did say in a May 7 press conference that his unit had seen marijuana with fentanyl previously. “As previously stated by the department, the common denominator in the recent spate of overdoses in the city was the suspected use of crack cocaine containing fentanyl.
But over the last decade, I’ve routinely seen alarming news stories about fentanyl-laced marijuana, often originating from law enforcement and repeated by politicians, that are followed by scientists or” that concluded: “At this time, there have been zero verified incidents of fentanyl 'contamination’ in cannabis.
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