Canada: Health officials dispute Pemier's claim fentanyl appearing in marijuana
Is it true… Could pot now be laced with fentanyl?
That’s the claim Premier Christy Clark is making, as she takes her pitch for more help in the opioid crisis to Ottawa.
Speaking to reporters today, Clark said the toxic narcotic had turned up in pot seized by Vancouver cops.
“Vancouver police did a major seizure, they found cocaine with fentanyl, heroin with fentanyl, methamphetamine with fentanyl and marijuana with fentanyl,” she said.
It’s a worrying claim. And one that’s news to Vancouver Coastal Health’s Chief Medical Health Officer Patricia Daly.
“I can only speak for what we know in the Vancouver Coastal Region and we haven’t had any reports of fentanyl contamination of marijuana here at this point,” she said.
She says from a medical standpoint, officials can’t trace the drug backwards from the system of an overdose victim – but from an administrative standpoint there’s been no word.
“Almost all of those...
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