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SmokingCaterpillar  December 10 2024 02:08:07 PM

If you want to avail yourself of 'medication' and here I'm using the euphemism for recreational drugs. these are now, in the UK, easily obtainable. And they can be delivered by Royal Mail. Hypothetically. In principle. Allegedly.

There are a few caveats. Firstly, you can only pay using crypto, mainly BitCoin. For myself, this is no great hurdle, as I'm reasonably OK with crypto. I don't buy crypto as an investment - it's way too risky an investment for me - so I buy small quantities and store them in a digital wallet. Even if I lose the wallet completely, there won't be a large amount of money there and I will not have to consider suing my local authority to get it back when the hard drive containing the wallet is on the tip.

You can't buy hard drugs - mostly the offers are flower, concentrates, magic mushrooms and concentrates. Plus LSD and I thought I saw DMT there a while back.

It seems that police action against recreational drugs, at least the level 2 recreational drugs, are not really considered to be a high priority by many police forces. And that is as it should be, IMHO. In terms of risk to public safety, surely a recreational drug user poses little threat to the community at large. And most recreational users know this.

Canadian cannabis legalisation initially saw a sales boom driven by high demand, as could reasonable be expected. But this was hampered by supply shortages and persistent competition from the illegal market. Provincial regulations and limited product variety also affected growth - there wasn't a cohesive national policy, as far as I know. While a legal market exists and is growing, it hasn't fully replaced the black market, resulting in a more moderate and fluctuating sales trajectory than initially predicted. Indeed, it seems that the initial bullishness, which poured investment into legal recreational cannabis may have been overestimated.

To me, the main reason is this. In most western advanced nations, cannabis is illegal in law but not so much practice. Many countries now operate a policy of lenience and/or decriminalisation. Something may well be against the law per se, but if the relevant authorities do not pursue the enforcement, then most people will not see any deterrent. In the meantime, the illegal trade has been becoming more sophisticated, with many of the features of the legitimate trade. As far as these consumers are concerned, the legal trade offers few advantages over the illegal trade. The main advantage, legality, probly just doesn't matter that much to most users.

So, when a country that has not pursued the enforcement then changes its legislation, I would not expect to see a huge increase in consumption overall. And when consumption does increase after legalisation, it's probably mainly due to people who always wanted to indulge but were wary of possible legal consequences and are now curious. This group is probably a) older and b) quite small. And quite a few will try recreational drugs but then not continue.

The illegal market has reached a high level of sophistication. When people talk about the illegal trade, some people think that this the old picture of a dealer, selling products of questionable quality on street corners. Things have moved on from there - the street corner has blossomed into a full market which should warm the hearts of even the most ardent free marketeers.

Here's what you can get in today's market:

Safety and convenience.
You don't have to go out. Or meet anyone. In December, in the UK, this is a definite plus.

Quality
Many of the products sold are made to legally defined standards - these are products that originate in countries where cannabis consumption is legal.
Feedback on sales is an integral part of quality assurance and many illegal channels now offer this.
In addition official testing documention is sometimes shown on the product pages. Of course, there's room for forgery here, but many of the custom,ers are experienced users over many years and decades. Flawed products are usually quite quickly identified.

Pricing
Often below that of legal sources. A reasonable price for a gram of flower is around £10, with significant discounts for greater quantities. You get colour photos of the product, with peer reviews from other purchasers. Many vendors will post a delivery the same day or next by recorded delivery. A comprehensive escrow system with dispute resolution is built into the process. Vendors offer all sorts of inducement - extra items for free, free stickers, dab tools or even chocolate bars are things that I've received.

Confidentiality
Use of BitCoin and no retention of personal information on market places. Of course, BitCoin isn't totally secure, but you do at least ensure that any purchases you make will take significant (and expensive) work to trace back. It's difficult to justify to law enforcement management that it's a useful piece of criminal work tracing a financial transaction involving 7g of cannabis flower (about £40-50 at current market rates) when the possession and consumption of that amount and type would probably not even result in a criminal prosecution anyway.

So, if you have a requirement why not check out

 https://littlebiggy.net/link/JWzt5E

In the interests of transparency, If you purchase using that link, I may get a small commission. This does not increase the price to you

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