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.<p>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.<p>A good way to describe selling weed is 'the only MLM where people actually want what you're selling'
I guess it is a good time to ship a bunch of packages thru post offices that are already going to be at max capacity. Seems like it would lower the chance of them getting picked up.
Is this actually newsworthy?<p>If you’re going to buy drugs the darkweb is almost surely safer (as in more likely to be getting what you ask for) than buying it from some random person in your neighborhood.
Is this a narco-submarine article?<p><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine</a>
TLDR: people who do things you don't approve still share the same culture you do, live in the same world, and celebrate like you do.<p>Because they are human too
Fun story but this isn't really news. Sales is sales. All sales tricks are a bit, well, tricky; marketers are trying to convince us to buy things we might not. At least with drugs people already want them.