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When the U.S. government closed the border with Mexico to non-essential travel in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, drug traffickers switched from cocaine and heroin to fentanyl, which was easier to transport undetected in the small number of "essential" vehicles allowed to cross. American deaths from fentanyl overdoses doubled between ...
In 2022, cross-border trade between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. amounted to an estimated $1.8 trillion, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. Mexico is also a key partner of the U ...
War on drugs A U.S. government PSA from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration with a photo image of two marijuana cigarettes and a "Just Say No" slogan Date June 17, 1971 – present (53 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Global Status Ongoing, widely viewed as a policy failure Belligerents United States US law enforcement Drug Enforcement Administration US Armed ...
He extrapolated from the number of respondents who said they knew someone who had died from the vaccine to conclude that the number of U.S. vaccine-related deaths "may be as high as 278,000."
Users of this vaccine passport, the first in Canada, faced fewer COVID-19 public health restrictions. [2] By early July, the demand for the paper vaccine passports temporarily overwhelmed the system. At the same time, the province reached a new "marker in the pandemic"—the COVID-19 vaccines supply exceeded "demand on a daily basis." [2] [44]
OpEd: Importing drugs from Canada to states like Florida and Kentucky makes sense in theory but not in practice.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976. [1]
The war on drugs, once a weapon in the nation's fight against substance abuse and related crimes, is experiencing a resurgence on the West Coast due to the fentanyl crisis.