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Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web to Send Deadly Drugs by Mail (nytimes.com)
2 points by nikcub on June 11, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> One of the most frequently reviewed vendors of synthetic opioids on AlphaBay goes by the screen name BenzoChems. The vendor has shared online videos of his operations in China.

I love how nobody realised that benzos (alprazolam, specifically) are not even opioids at all!

Anyway, insert the usual text about drug prohibition driving the iron law of prohibition; which incentivises drugs that are more potent per unit volume, and drugs with this property are more lethal when not metered with extreme precision.

Also a nonintrusive, low-false-positive method (that works at very high throughput) for postal services to detect illegal drugs in the mailstream would really suck, huh.




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