Nicholas and All:
Nicholas, we spoke once via zoom.  I am not qualified at this time address this incident/situation with SDPD.  However, I can see that I deeply regret the legalization of marijuana, which could become a federal law. My regret includes the fact that, speaking of the SDPD officer near fatality via fentanyl,  when I am near someone smoking a joint, I get very sick, nauseaus. I enjoy the odor of cigars, cigarettes, alcohol (I could sleep in a bar without problems). But the odor from a joint gets me sick.  My point is that there may be a cop with SDPD who has a problem with fentanyl. 

Indeed, a woman coworker once related to me she could not drink ice cold anything, including water, pop, something on the rocks, etc. One day it was almost 100 degrees outside, and I thought I would mess with her by pretending to take away a can of Coke from her desk. No sooner did I touch it, than I realized it was warm. She had bought it from the canteen, ice cold. She let it sit on the table for a hour or so to get warm.  

Another woman coworker saw me once scretching a rubber band ten feet away. She asked that I stop, because she was allergic to them. 

I guess there is always someone, somewhere, who will have a reaction to something. May God help the baby born allergic to oxygen, air, water, etc.  This might be the physiological version of a phobia? I am allergic to liquid caffeine, but not embedded caffeine. 

Best,
Michael M. Kazanjian

    On Saturday, August 14, 2021, 10:04:05 AM CDT, Nicholas Lattanzio <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  
 
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Curious if anyone has another side to this story that's probably about at its peak coverage. 
If you haven't heard and don't want to read the article try watching the video online or embedded in the article. These Sand Diego PD officers claimed one nearly died after collapsed on camera when he was apparently "exposed" to fentanyl via touching the substance. 
Now sure if you touch a powder substance like that or have it in the air some of the substance will enter the body, but nowhere near a level that could be considered ingesting it, even something as powerful as fentanyl. Though this post was purported as truth, I haven't seen any argument to defend the legitimacy of the claims and based on everything I know and have heard from experts on substance abuse and poison/infection control this video is embarrassingly incorrect and in that way comes off as/feels to me almost insulting for how rudimentary and ludicrous the scare tactic is. 
I hope it's obvious but I want to be clear I'm not advocating fentanyl use or that PD's shouldn't be educating the community and families and youth in particular, but kids are much more 'street-wise' these days and this stunt reeks of a pretentious attitude toward those who may be afflicted with addictions or struggling with something like a mental health issue or chronic pain/recovery or for whatever other reason are considering the use of heroin or opiates (and thus risking exposure to substances cut with fentanyl). 
Law enforcement has known better, though still largely ineffective education programs (e.g., DARE), so why this? Because the video is a short, TikTok like style might make it more viral but not necessarily more trustworthy or even appealing.
If someone has a more informed opinion or knowledge about why SDPD went about this I'm curious to know because it just seems too stupid to be true the way it is. 

Regards,

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