Legal Drugs Turned Illegal Primed for Dark Web Marketplaces
August 3, 2016
A few drugs that were once able to be legally sold will be outlawed in Britain. Express released an article, Legal high dealers to be forced onto DARK WEB by blanket ban, top police officer warns, that shares the story. Several deaths were linked to substances called “spice” and “hippy crack” which led to a ban on the sales of these items. The article’s source, a police chief Commander Simon Bray, says because of the future unavailability in brick-and-mortar stores, he suspects users will turn to the Dark Web to purchase these drugs. The article tells us,
“Commander Bray of the National Police Chiefs Council added: “Clearly, there will be some movement onto the dark net. “People find it lucrative to sell substances and where people are going to buy them. But of course, it is not going to be so easy for the average person to get hold of them.” Other experts have warned the ban will just drive use and sale of the drugs into the hands of criminal gangs. Tejinder Reehal, who manages Scorpion, a shop that has sold legal highs, said: “We have seen it before with mushrooms and mcat.”
At a bigger-picture level, this story is interesting in that it is one more artifact that lends toward the perspective that illegal activity will take place on the Dark Web when it cannot take place elsewhere. This may in fact happen, but what about the illegal activity that takes place in real life outside of brick-and-mortar stores?
Megan Feil, August 9, 2016
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There is a Louisville, Kentucky Hidden /Dark Web meet up on August 23, 2016.
Information is at this link: https://www.meetup.com/Louisville-Hidden-Dark-Web-Meetup/events/233019199/
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