Executive Order 14367: Designating Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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• Sec. 1. Purpose and Policy
• Sec. 2. Implementation
• Sec. 3. Definitions
• Sec. 4. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic. Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentanyl overdoses. The manufacture and distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized criminal networks, threatens our national security and fuels lawlessness in our hemisphere and at our borders. The production and sale of fentanyl by Foreign Terrorist Organizations and cartels fund these entities' operations--which include assassinations, terrorist acts, and insurgencies around the world--and allow these entities to erode our domestic security and the well-being of our Nation. […]