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By reputable I mean manufactured in an approved facility to Health Canada standards (or equivalent). It seems unlikely that some dude on darknet would meet thes

By reputable I mean manufactured in an approved facility to Health Canada standards (or equivalent). It seems unlikely that some dude on darknet would meet these standards. It's like saying that your local drug dealer has a good reputation because he hasn't killed too many people with fentanyl.

contingencies 9y ago
Darknet stores are mostly distributors not manufacturers of pharmacological products. They are usually sourced from corrupt legitimate medical world supply chains. The economic reality is that there is almost no margin in wholesaling some of this stuff. Starting a yet another factory to make off-patent generic drugs would cost more than the probable medium term profits, especially given that you can more easily acquire from an existing producer. More recent / patented / specialized pharma products are probably harder to synthesize. Therefore, you can rest fairly assured a large-scale supplier with good reputation on the darknet markets is selling real stuff. This is true particularly in the case of generic drugs where, like ketamine, there is already zero patent global production.
- cpncrunch 9y ago
  > corrupt Yeah, that's the problem. Are you aware that ketamine is sometimes laced with fentanyl? https://nowtoronto.com/news/why-is-fentanyl-showing-up-in-street-drugs-/ https://nowtoronto.com/news/why-is-fentanyl-showing-up-in-st... Not really something I'd be willing to take the chance on, just to save a few bucks.
- robocat 9y ago
  > rest fairly assured No you cannot: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-33472971/inside-a-chinese-ketamine-village http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-33472971/inside-... mentions illegal manufacturing in China early in the article. Your advice is dangerous.
  - contingencies 9y ago
    To be clear, I live in China and have been here for nearly two decades. You read a BBC article reporting translated third party information on the internet.

contingencies 9y ago

Darknet stores are mostly distributors not manufacturers of pharmacological products. They are usually sourced from corrupt legitimate medical world supply chains. The economic reality is that there is almost no margin in wholesaling some of this stuff. Starting a yet another factory to make off-patent generic drugs would cost more than the probable medium term profits, especially given that you can more easily acquire from an existing producer. More recent / patented / specialized pharma products are probably harder to synthesize. Therefore, you can rest fairly assured a large-scale supplier with good reputation on the darknet markets is selling real stuff. This is true particularly in the case of generic drugs where, like ketamine, there is already zero patent global production.

cpncrunch 9y ago
> corrupt Yeah, that's the problem. Are you aware that ketamine is sometimes laced with fentanyl? https://nowtoronto.com/news/why-is-fentanyl-showing-up-in-street-drugs-/ https://nowtoronto.com/news/why-is-fentanyl-showing-up-in-st... Not really something I'd be willing to take the chance on, just to save a few bucks.
robocat 9y ago
> rest fairly assured No you cannot: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-33472971/inside-a-chinese-ketamine-village http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-33472971/inside-... mentions illegal manufacturing in China early in the article. Your advice is dangerous.
- contingencies 9y ago
  To be clear, I live in China and have been here for nearly two decades. You read a BBC article reporting translated third party information on the internet.