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This wound up being a bit of an effortpost to get buried this deep in the conversation. So it goes.

The synthesis isn't difficult for a reasonably qualified synthetic chemist. Access to propionic anhydride was always the limiting step - before the explosion in sources for chemical precursors of all kinds the only way to reliably get it would have the DEA on your ass very quickly. There has been gray/black domestic production of fentanyl as long as there's been fentanyl but never on an industrial scale until the last decade or so.

The actual precursors are by and large being manufactured in other countries (China and India are the biggest producers) and the final synthesis can take place anywhere. Mexican drug trafficking organizations got a crash course in organic chemistry after the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act in 2005 led to the collapse of almost all domestic methamphetamine manufacture. They have the benefit of 20 years' experience in organic synthesis supplying meth for the North American market that translates very well to making fetty.

As far as I know most illicit fentanyl production for the usamerican market occurs in Mexico, but this is simply a matter of convenience. A handful of guys in the LA area produce more or less the entire usamerican supply of PCP. There's absolutely no reason if material conditions demand the production move across the border for it not to move across the border.

I don't know if it was here on hexbear or somewhere else on the internet that I read a comment that the United States has been waging an opium war against itself for 80 years. The nexus between hard-right groups, intelligence organizations, organized crime, and the networks of illicit drug manufacture and distribution is old and runs deep. The fentanyl will continue to flow, manufactured wherever conditions are best for its production.

Add me please!

On my reading list, thank you for the recommendation!

Alright I will "go" to "bed" but I'll make sure you're fully aware of my displeasure with the situation the whole time. (will actually get really into, then fall asleep during the bedtime story)

The rules-lawyering 4 year old in me has no genuine objections to this, guess it's bedtime!

Have you considered that I don't wanna?

Bedtime struggle session when?

The way families are constructed is political. That I have effectively absolute authority over my children, however I choose to use that power, is absolutely political. Marginalized people live under the threat of having their children stolen from them because they lack the social capital to avoid getting ensnared in the family regulation system. That children have such limited rights to begin with is political. The power relations that exist between a parent and a child, and the structural context those relations exist in, is very much political.

It might take a little bit but I'll try and make something coherent this week. If not something coherent then at least the nucleus of something useful.

Wearily explaining, again, to a three year old that while the regimentation of time is an artifact of the development of the capitalist mode of production and the requirements of wage labor it's still naptime and they still have to lay down

I'm not shy at home about my political beliefs, I just find it much more useful to work with my kid on building a strong relationship than to browbeat her with the difference between labor and socially productive labor if she's taking too long to get out of bed, say.

I burned out on organizing a long time ago too but the same principles that got any org I was involved with any wins seem to work pretty well at home too. Maybe I effortpost about it sometime.