Cartel luring chemistry students to make fentanyl: Report

The Sinaloa cartel is turning to chemistry students in Mexico to make fentanyl in the hopes of making the drug more potent and thereby addictive, according to The New York Times.

Recruitment of chemistry students at Mexican universities is part of the cartel’s strategy to expand its fentanyl empire.

According to the Times, the cartel hopes to synthesize chemical compounds in the drug to save importing raw materials from China.