Overdose alert warns 'pot-like' product isn't cannabis, contains carfentanil

Overdose alert warns 'pot-like' product isn't cannabis, contains carfentanil
Officials say a similar 'cannabis-like' drug was seized in Ohio, and was actually a substance containing heroin and fentanyl
May 22, 2019 12:00 PM by: Erin Anderson

An overdose alert was issued on May 21, 2019 as a substance that vaguely resembles cannabis was found to contain carfentanil in Ontario. (WRIDS)
An overdose alert has been issued for the province.

The Waterloo Region Integrated Drugs Strategy says a product vaguely resembling cannabis has been seized in Ontario. Testing discovered it was not pot at all, but rather a substance containing carfentanil.

The Ontario Harm Reduction Network says the product only resembles pot in out-of-focus pictures, to novice consumers, or people inexperienced with cannabis. Furthermore, it says the substance has not been marketed or sold as cannabis.

Officials say the new potentially deadly substance hasn't yet been discovered in Waterloo Region, but anyone consuming drugs should be aware of the new product.

They say opioids like carfentanil cannot be detected by sight, smell, or taste.

If someone is experiencing an overdose - call 911 immediately, and administer Naloxone if you have it.

You can see full tips from WRIDS and learn where to get Naloxone locally below, or by clicking here.




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The substance in the May 21st alert was seized by @OPP_WR in Tecumseh. Please note this is not cannabis laced with an opioid. It is carfentanil that has been disguised to resemble cannabis. For info re: the seizure, please contact @OPP_WR


https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/overdose-alert-warns-pot-like-product-isnt-cannabis-contains-carfentanil-1467239

Certainly hope they catch the pricks who thought this genius plan up. Lock em up!

Hopefully the chicken littles can rest now. The big bad black market weed dealers might not be as bad as soccer mom thought.

The Hippy said:

Hopefully the chicken littles can rest now. The big bad black market weed dealers might not be as bad as soccer mom thought.

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I wonder if this is the same substance that those two kids from Milton overdosed on ?



https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/two-teens-taken-to-hospital-after-suspected-overdose-outside-home-in-milton-1.4424885

Yup..it looked the same in the news story

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9365629-waterloo-regional-police-warn-about-carfentanil-that-looks-like-cannabis/

"This is fenantyl that is made to look like cannabis," Bonn said.
Police believe the product is being used to mimic marijuana so that police won't seize it if they find it.
"They have produced it to look like cannabis to avoid detection," she said.

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I found an article that references the quote that "Aqua Terra" posted in another thread:
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/sfpd-spread-misinformation-about-fentanyl-laced-marijuana/

“You literally can’t smoke it directly,” says Eliza Wheeler of the Harm Reduction Coalition. “When people smoke fentanyl, which many people do, you have to smoke it on foil. You cannot put a flame directly to the drug. If you sprinkle it on a bud it destroys the actual drug by burning it. It’s not even actually possible to get high from smoking it that way.”

Does anyone here know if this is actually true?

Further, if this is true for fentanyl is this also true for carfentanil ?