SecWar says fentanyl is deadly enough to be considered a "chemical weapon." True?

The Left (Democrats) are wailing that the Trump administration is killing drug smugglers.  In response, the head of the military (SecWar Hegseth) noted that drugs like fentanyl are so lethal that they could be considered chemical weapons.

That led me to do a bit of research:  When determining how deadly a poison is, there's a benchmark called "LD50"--the dose calculated to kill half of those exposed to it.  

Two of the most deadly chemical weapons known are Sarin, and a thing called "VX."  Both are "nerve agents," variations of organophosphates.  They kill by causing muscles to go into constant contraction.  Death occurs by suffocation because you can't breathe.

Turns out for a 70kg (154-pound) person the LD50 for Sarin  is 25 to 30 milligrams.  (If you have no idea how much that is, one of those little yellow packets of Splenda weighs 1,000 milligrams.)

VX is even more powerful:  The LD50 for VX is just 5 to 10 milligrams.

Anybody have even a vague idea what the LD50 is for fentanyl?  Take a guess, out loud.  Then highlight the line below to show the answer.
  Two milligrams.

The Left (Democrats) wail that the cartel drug boats are "only" smuggling cocaine (which they imply, but cunningly do NOT explicitly claim, is no big deal, eh?), and no doubt that's most of their cargo.  But if just one boat carries just one 20kg bag of fentanyl, that could potentially kill five million Americans if divided into ten million pills.

Democrats: "You can't prove what they're carrying, so no big deal, deplorable!  So you mus' stop bombing deez po' fishermen jus' cuz dey happen to have enuf dinero to buy a boat wit $100,000 just for the four 300-horsepower Merc engines!"

Okay Pete, here's a free idea for how to solve a whole bunch of problems: replace the exploding missiles now being used to blow up the drug boats with a plain ol' 200-pound chunk of solid iron with a laser guidance system--the ones that can fly thru a small window.  Obviously not as fast as a missile but if you drop from overhead it'll work fine.  

Drop a couple of those and they'll not only put a couple of big damn holes in the boat but will probably break a gas line and start a small fire.  So the boat's out of action.  Then after a day or so, U.S. Navy leisurely motors up to the stopped boat and says "Hey, if ya like, we'd be glad to let y'all use our radio to call your boss and tell him what happened, and ask him to send someone to pick you up."

Of course we know that won't happen, so after another day or so our guys say "We'd be happy to take you to the U.S.  There the Democrats will give you money and fly you home.  But y'gotta tell us who's in charge of your op."  And then split 'em up for interrogation.

Much better.