Is Your Mailman (Unwittingly) a Drug Dealer? (From the Baltimore Sun)

Securing our nation’s borders against illegal entrants has become the most reverberant, and often most polarizing, rallying cry of the nation’s recent political discourse. But a different kind of illegal threat entering this country every day is at least as present on the minds of law enforcement officials across America: the constant flow of dangerous, cheap synthetic drugs through the mail.

Last month, a bipartisan group of five U.S. Senators held a roundtable forum at the U.S. Capitol to discuss the biggest threat to public safety most Americans have never heard of. The Senators questioned a panel of government experts, including representatives of the U.S. Postal Service, Customs and Border Protection; Drug Enforcement Agency; and Department of State, who acknowledged the crisis. Each emphasized its causes as systemic, making any fast solution unlikely. (To read the rest of this article, click here).