The Globe
and Mail [Toronto]
7 April
2019
White House picks up on debunked Vancouver Police claim
of fentanyl-laced pot
In a
digital version of broken telephone, the debunked claim that illicit cannabis
is now being laced with deadly fentanyl has travelled to the White House from a
Vancouver police press release put out four years ago. Twice in the past month,
the U.S. federal opioids czar Kellyanne Conway has parroted this claim: during a
March 1 panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National
Harbour, Md., and, again, two weeks ago in a press briefing on the continuing
overdose crisis. […]
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Walt Kelly, Pogo,
15 September 1952 (partial). Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 2 (Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2012), 182. Homing pet.
Warren Miller, New
Yorker, 10 July 1971.
“Satan’s
Suit!,” Black Cat Mystery #32,
December 1951. [This four-page story about a tuxedo saturated with embalming
fluid is a variation of “The Poisoned Dress.”]
