Florida's Attorney General is joining forces with those who want the federal government to declare the drug fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaking in Tampa, Ashley Moody says parents need to be aware of a new tactic to attract children to the drug. "We are seeing rainbow-colored pills designed to attract children being seized all over our country."
Moody says authorities are seeing record fentanyl seizures, and sadly, a record number of overdose deaths.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri says his deputies have seized about 6-thousand grams of fentanyl over the last two years. "That's 6 kilograms of fentanyl," the sheriff said, "and to put it in even simpler terms, that's about 13 pounds."
"One gram of fentanyl," he says, "can kill about 300 people."
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