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OP, can you edit the title to clarify that the seized weight was 153kg and the pills contained fentanyl, so as to clarify that the pills were not pure fent?
I suspect that title is wrong, and the US Department of Justice's press release person made a mistake in writing the title from the article, but I don't know if we should correct on our end -- I mean, the post as-submitted accurately reflects the title that they're putting out. Like, I don't think that we should claim that the USDOJ is saying something other than what they are.
It's also not impossible that there's some kind of error on our end -- I mean, I'm not a doctor -- or possibly that the error is elsewhere in the press release (like, maybe the pill count is in error). Maybe they actually have a gram measurement, rather than a kilogram measurement, and it's that the unit is wrong.
Maybe edit the post body text to indicate that the title might be in error and see the comments for discussion?
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).
From the article:
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.
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.