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I think the "dark web" is where many of the dealers get the drugs from. A "wholesale" market where your local dealer is the "retailer" if you like.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> the "dark web" is where many of the dealers get the drugs from Source? “Dark web” is sort of a perfectly-useless mix of trust and trust-less for a high-volume actor. You don’t know who’s on the other side, definitively. But they at least know a mailing address you can get to.
- nicoburns 2y ago
  I don't really have a source for this: I've never used the "dark web" myself. But my understanding from people who have is that it's that it's possible to buy in large quantities, which seemed to me like it would only be useful for dealers. Your point about the mailing address is a good one though. I had not thought about that.
- HDThoreaun 2y ago
  Most dealers get their drugs from the cartel of course, but ime (i like to talk with my drug dealers) dark web markets are the second biggest source. Stuff like mdma, lsd seems to be almost exclusively sourced on the dark web.
Lanolderen 2y ago
>this I know someone who buys their drugs rarely but in large quantities in this way. They are not a dealer but essentially use quite a bit and ask friends what they want and then order a couple thousand euros worth of stuff to get the volume discount and to reduce the amount of packages.
quickthrowman 2y ago
No, they don’t. Virtually all drug sales are conducted in person or by mail with cash or Venmo/Cashapp, at least for weed, cocaine, fentanyl, meth; which covers 99% of drug transactions. I’ve never met anyone who has bought drugs on the dark web and I know more drug dealers than most people. Weed finds it way to the people who need it from the people that grow it through a network of middlemen/brokers. Cocaine, meth, and fentanyl wholesaling is pretty much cartel dominated. Unsure about other drugs, I know online is a common way that obtain LSD (and other psychedelics like 5-MeO-DMT, 2CB) but I’ve always bought it in person.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> the "dark web" is where many of the dealers get the drugs from Source? “Dark web” is sort of a perfectly-useless mix of trust and trust-less for a high-volume actor. You don’t know who’s on the other side, definitively. But they at least know a mailing address you can get to.

nicoburns 2y ago
I don't really have a source for this: I've never used the "dark web" myself. But my understanding from people who have is that it's that it's possible to buy in large quantities, which seemed to me like it would only be useful for dealers. Your point about the mailing address is a good one though. I had not thought about that.
HDThoreaun 2y ago
Most dealers get their drugs from the cartel of course, but ime (i like to talk with my drug dealers) dark web markets are the second biggest source. Stuff like mdma, lsd seems to be almost exclusively sourced on the dark web.

Lanolderen 2y ago

>this I know someone who buys their drugs rarely but in large quantities in this way. They are not a dealer but essentially use quite a bit and ask friends what they want and then order a couple thousand euros worth of stuff to get the volume discount and to reduce the amount of packages.

quickthrowman 2y ago

No, they don’t. Virtually all drug sales are conducted in person or by mail with cash or Venmo/Cashapp, at least for weed, cocaine, fentanyl, meth; which covers 99% of drug transactions. I’ve never met anyone who has bought drugs on the dark web and I know more drug dealers than most people. Weed finds it way to the people who need it from the people that grow it through a network of middlemen/brokers. Cocaine, meth, and fentanyl wholesaling is pretty much cartel dominated. Unsure about other drugs, I know online is a common way that obtain LSD (and other psychedelics like 5-MeO-DMT, 2CB) but I’ve always bought it in person.