[buttcoinslol]

Has anyone commenting ever actually bought or sold drugs before? Every single dealer or customer I've ever met has been through someone else, or someone I knew. There's relationships and trust vouching, just like any business. Credit is extended, and paid back. Transactions generally occur in homes or cars.

The comments here are acting like all real world drug market transactions occur between strangers, which is so far removed from the truth we might as well be talking about something else.

A good way to describe selling weed is 'the only MLM where people actually want what you're selling'

[partyboat1586]

Where I live (big city) there are numbers you can text and it's a different guy every time. It's like ordering pizza except you get in their car for the transaction. You are usually waiting 20min at most. The whole operation is eerily professional. Back in my home town it was a guy you knew who may or may not be around or that other guy your friend knew who's house you could swing by. For weed in particular you tend to get more of the small town style dealers even in big cities just cos it's nice and people are used to it but for hard drugs people don't care, they want their drugs in the most convenient way possible.

[eunoia]

The first time I heard of this kind of system it was for black tar heroin distribution in the US from a specific Mexican town that basically franchised the drug trade. [1]

Super interesting stuff. Google Xalisco or pick up the book Dreamland for more.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-16-la-me-bl...

[codyb]

I haven’t personally but certainly know people who have.

The experience sounds quite pleasant if that’s what you’re interested in purchasing.

Fire up tor, mix some bitcoins around, look at a bunch of listings, send some bitcoins and an address, wait a few days, and get a package by post with some high quality drugs in it.

For the record, the people I know who’ve done this tend to be particularly technically inclined.

[quaquaqua1]

A former friend of mine who is now in prison for possession of heroin used to buy heroin from The Silk Road as if it was Amazon, just pick any listing and hope for the best.

He wasn't busted via Silk Road btw, he was just busted when he was pulled over in his car with it. No need for sophisticated hacking when you can just nab them for any hallucinated traffic violation

[yabadabadoes]

> No need for sophisticated hacking when you can just nab them for any hallucinated traffic violation

Perhaps both were involved. Never put down to chance what can be explained by parallel construction..

[mam2]

Personal and friend experience tells me its cheaper and better quality on the darknet than in the street. Whicj is not surprising tbh