Name: Tranq: The Latest Development in the Fentanyl Epidemic
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Tranq: The Latest Development in the Fentanyl Epidemic' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-26. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
Mexico-Sinaloa cartels message to members,
stop making fentanyl or die.
Good. Crime group yields to intensifying
U.S. law enforcement pressure and is kidnapping
or killing producers who defies ban on trafficking the opioid.
Good. Interesting. Good. I'm with them.
I wonder why.
Well, I mean, it's fucking up their business.
Their business is selling cocaine.
And then these guys make fentanyl and they cut the cocaine
with fentanyl and people are dying.
And then law enforcement pressure starts ramping up.
And then what they're really worried about is an invasion.
The military decides to go after the cartel.
The cartels are fucked.
Right.
I mean, they start airstriking cartels with jets.
Gnarly.
Yeah, that's a wrap.
Yeah.
Crazy.
How crazy is that how the fentanyl these days
is mixed with trank?
Or it's trank? Have you heard of that?
What's trank?
I can't believe you haven't heard of this.
Trank with a Q.
So trank is fentanyl mixed with a horse tranquilizer.
So the horse tranquilizer makes the fentanyl last much longer
is my understanding.
Jamie's probably looking it up right now.
But the trank is a horse tranquilizer.
They mix it with fentanyl, I think,
to make it last longer and make it more powerful.
And the fucked up thing is it's so toxic,
they all inject it.
It's so toxic that it's so poisonous in your body
that your body's trying to get rid of it.
So it creates these massive sores
where the drug is trying to get out.
I saw that in Russia.
Yeah, and people are...
No, it's here now, dude, big time.
People are getting sepsis
and having to get their limbs amputated.
It's really, really gnarly.
Go back to that article that you were just posting.
DEA, like, message about it.
Okay.
Xylazine.
Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat
in our country that our country has ever faced fentanyl
even deadlier, said Administrator Milgram.
DEA sees xylazine and fentanyl mixtures
in 48 of 50 states.
The DEA laboratory system is reporting
that in 2022, apparently, approximately, rather,
23% of fentanyl powder and 7% of fentanyl pills
seized by the DEA contain xylazine.
Fuck.
Yeah, I have a weird, I don't know
if obsession's the right word,
but I like watching, like, drug documentaries
and, like, interviews with, like, drug addicts
and, like, you know, DEA agents,
like, all that kind of stuff
is just kind of fascinating to me
because I don't have a drug problem
and it's just interesting to me
how people, like, will choose to go down that road
over and over and over,
even though it just seems like the worst thing ever.
But, like, the addicts,
when they talk about being on fentanyl,
they'll choose the xylazine now,
with the fentanyl
because it's much better.
And they know they're going to die from it,
like, really soon.
And they keep choosing it.
It's pretty wild.
And if you're a heroin addict,
you can't even find heroin these days.
You can't get heroin.
It's all fentanyl.
Really?
I've had a few different friends die from fentanyl.
They thought they were buying, like, a baggie of cocaine
and partying and just drop dead.
Yeah.
That happened to a group of comedians in L.A. recently.
It's so messed up.
It's fucking horrible.
Yeah.
It's the number one killer, I think, of people in, like, 18 to 49.
Yeah.
Something nuts like that.
It's like 100,000 people a year dying of overdoses.
What do you think about parents sending test kits with kids to go to parties
so they can test the drugs?
Well, it's certainly better than not testing it and taking it.
Right.
Obviously, the best thing would be to don't take any drugs.
But, you know, especially when kids are drinking,
you're fucking, all your judgment goes out the window.
You're not thinking straight.
You're drunk.
And then someone offers Coke, and there's peer pressure.
And you're like, I'll try it.
And then next thing you know, you're dead.
You know, if there was a method of testing,
and I know they use that a lot at raves,
because that was one of the issues at raves,
was that people were buying MDMA, and that was laced with fentanyl.
For sure.
And they would wind up overdosing with that.
Yeah.
That's fucking scary shit, man.
Also, parents are sending their kids Narcon.
Or Narcan?
Narcan.
Narcan.
To help them survive an overdose.
Well, and to help other people.
Yeah.
I heard a lot of kids in Portland are being trained and sending their kids to
school with Narcan.
And they're trained to give Narcan to heroin addicts or to fentanyl addicts.
Which is crazy.
That's the other thing they say in those documentaries.
They always interview the addicts, and they say, how many times have you, or
they say, have you OD'd before?
And they're all like, yeah, of course.
And they're like, how many times?
And they all say, countless.
They don't know.
Imagine ODing so many times where you literally do not know how many times it's
been.
And then going straight back and getting high again, like with a needle.
Yeah, it's nuts.
It's a real crisis.
Yeah, it really is a crisis.
I mean, you have kids.
I have kids.
So these are things that are like totally on the front burner for me.
Like, to me, I'm never sending my kids to a party with test kits.
That's not like, that's, I feel like talking to them from a super young age,
totally having super transparent, heart-to-heart talks with them about friends
that I've had that thought they were getting one drug and it was laced with
this shit that is completely deadly and dropping dead.
Just drugs are different, man.
They're not how it was when we were kids.
When we were kids, like, people would experiment.
It was completely normal.
Like, I feel like those days are over in some aspects, you know?
For sure.
Well, the real problem, and this is a very uncomfortable discussion, but the
real problem is that drug prohibition has made criminals the only source of
drugs.
Yeah.
And you have no idea what you're getting.
And that's the problem.
And if you make drugs legal, all drugs legal, you're going to have a bunch of
people that are doing drugs that wouldn't do drugs if they were illegal.
So you have that problem.
And so how do you mitigate that?
How long does it take for the dust settles and life normalizes?
Because if you think about the prohibition in the United States, prohibition of
alcohol in the United States propped up the mob.
Everybody knows that.
It's a fact.
It's widely, openly discussed.
The only people that were selling the alcohol were the people that were
criminals.
They made a shitload of money.
They amassed massive power because of that.
And they used it.
They used it to control cities.
And until they got infiltrated and the mob got broken up, for a long time, they
reaped the rewards of the power that they started to develop during prohibition.
And that's exactly what you're seeing with the cartels.
The reason why the cartels have so much power is because there's so much demand
for illegal drugs in the United States.
And that's not going away.
Well, it's not going away.
No.
People have always wanted to do drugs.
There's always going to be a certain lost segment of our population that wants
to escape reality with some fucking hardcore shit that puts them in a trance.
And, yeah, well, they're finding it.
Yeah.
If they want that, it's everywhere.
What is Hawaii's problems?
What is, like, on the Big Island, what are their main drug problems?
I mean, it's been meth for the most part for, like, the last 20 years.
That's taken a toll.
There's no doubt about it.
Meth has been, like, probably the biggest problem.
But now it's turning into fentanyl.
Now it's turning into fentanyl.
One of the little girls in my daughter's circle of friends was on Instagram
Live.
This was, like, two years ago.
And a girl was, like, 12 years old.
She was, like, on Instagram Live.
No one was home at her house.
And she went in her mom's medicine cabinet.
And she found a little baggie of white powder.
Oh, God.
And chopped it up in a line on Instagram Live.
She just had her friends or whatever, like, her 10, 15 friends that follow her.
It's like a little girl.
And was like, Jeremy?
And she snorted it.
It was pure fentanyl.
Oh, God.
And it turns out her mom was selling it.
That was on the Big Island in my daughter's little circle of friends.
And she died.
That's happening everywhere, man.
That's my little tiny town that I feel is, like, a little town, like a little
farm town that grows coffee.
And, like, that's where you surf and hang out.
It's, like, super mellow.
But somehow that's really happening.
Like, it's – those drugs have infiltrated, like, every last little corner of
our country.
It's wild, man.
Wild.
It is wild.
And the alternative doesn't seem appealing, either.
The alternative of making heroin and cocaine legal at stores, that scares the
shit out of me, too.
Yeah.
It's weird that it's, like – it's, like, regional.
Like, it's really bad in Canada.
Horrible.
The drug – like, drug epidemic.
Like, I was in – not Toronto.
What's the other giant city on the West Coast?
Vancouver?
Vancouver.
Holy crap.
Yeah.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of homeless people – homeless fentanyl
zombies all over these, like, big city blocks.
Like, thousands of them, like, you know, slumped over.
Have you seen that when they get slumped over?
That's the trank.
So, that's a tranquilizer thing.
So, they get super high and they're tranquilizered, so they basically are, like,
you know, they don't fall, but they, like, swaying.
But I feel like in Canada, it's huge.
In the U.S., it's huge.
But I just was – I was in France and Spain.
None of that.