Welcome to the difference between intelligence and evidence. The DEA can send WU to a drug dealer and follow it back to them, not the case with Bitcoin if it is properly used. Sure, the dealer could tell the DEA to fuck off but its far more likely that the DEA will simply put them under surveillance and then bust them with drugs. An even more worrying attack is the DEA can can learn the account information of a dealer and watch everyone who sends money and trace in reverse. Again, sending money to a drug dealer may not be evidence but it is certainly intelligence.


And buying drugs in the street can get you robbed or killed and chances are high that there is not a huge market leaving reviews on the dealers product to immediately warn the community if it has any problems, and chances are high that the dude on the corner selling drugs gives a fuck less about you but the vendor trying to make his reputation online has publicly viewable reviews to worry about. you need trust to trade with ANYONE, your relative locations don't matter. And if you deal drugs and don't maintain your anonymity, unless you have a small army backing you up the DEA can fuck you because they have soooooooo many snitches and undercovers. Can't snitch on anonymous. People who sell drugs with out being securely pseudonymous are begging to get busted.


Nope it is way safer to buy drugs online than in the street, for the customer for the community and particularly for the vendor.


Just go to a .onion and sell there are a few drug forums with public registration now. E-mail vending is old school. Use mail for long distance but dead drops for local.


Sourcing online gets cheaper than street prices on almost every drug except heroin/coke/meth in some cases, is generally regarded as very safe. Pretty much if the vendor you pick is good, your only risk is interception which is a small risk. Also sourcing online opens you up to a global market. In one nation the price of a gram of a certain drug might be $80, in another $300. So prices you can get from the global market are the global low in most cases, then people resell locally in areas where the prices are higher (best to do dead drops for local). Plus with web of trust you only need to trust one persons judgement and you will be substantially protected.

Sourcing online is way safer for customers primarily because there are vendors with expensive reputations at stake. If a vendor sends a bad batch of drugs out, everyone knows as soon as the first person finds out. Also people online tend to be far safer than people on the street and there is access to all kinds of sophisticated analysis equipment to make sure drugs are as advertised. When is the last time some street drug user got an NMR done on their drugs to test quality? They don't even use reagent tests for the most part! Online drugs: highest quality drugs (cuz people in source countries ship directly to customers and remove the chain of people who would otherwise cut the drugs), cheapest prices (due to global price differences, online you will almost always find at least some drugs at way cheaper prices than they are in your area), only safe way to deal, way more intelligent harm reduction community and systems to protect from scammers and such. If a customer picks one good vendor who is not LE and stick with them they are not likely to ever get busted.