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tdubz



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Dark Web Market Bans Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl After Recent Deaths 2
#23599867 - 09/01/16 03:08 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dark-web-market-bans-synthetic-opioid-fentanyl-after-recent-deaths?trk_source=homepage-lede
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The dark web is often portrayed as a digital wild west, where absolutely anything goes. That just isn't true. Earlier this month, one dark web marketplace banned sales of fentanyl after a wave of deaths caused by the drug, Deep Dot Web reports. “Due to recent deaths and the threat to customers' well-being, we've come to the decision that starting today (08/19/2016) we will no longer allow the sale of fentanyl and its related analogues on our market,” an announcement from an administrator of the marketplace Darknet Heroes League (DHL) reads.
“We've given all vendors that sell this product a 48 hour notice to remove the product from their listings or possibly lose their ability to vend. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding,” the announcement continues. The administrator, who uses the moniker “SeriousSam,” writes that, to their knowledge, no sales of fentanyl took place on the market.
Read More: More People Than Ever Say They Get Their Drugs on the Dark Web
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid much more powerful than morphine. It can be particularly dangerous as users may overestimate how much to take, or dealers may pedal the drug under the pretense it is something else. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has said the drug was linked to over 700 reported fatal overdoses in late 2013 and 2014, and dozens of deaths have been linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids so far this year.
In May, authorities in Connecticut seized 2.5 kg of fentanyl, which they said originated in China and was sold on dark web marketplaces. Indeed, VICE News found that one particularly prolific dark web dealer had made at least $500,000 from just that drug alone. There are plenty of fentanyl listings on AlphaBay, likely the largest and most popular market around at the moment. Some even come with “bonus” amounts, including an extra 50 milligrams with every purchase.
Some DHS users responded positively to the news, while others were clearly sceptical about how effective a ban really would be. “I'm sorry but your [sic] not stopping fentanyl sales on DHL until all listings for Heroin, Opiots [opiates], and Opiods [opioids] are removed as a large percentage of them are now cut with or flat out mislabeled fentanyl. Removing listing for fentanyl as some sort of statement or stance on the subject is like banning lead but continuing to allow gun and ammunition sales,” user “herewegoagain” wrote on the site's forum.
This isn't the first time a marketplace has explicitly banned products. Although broader in scope than a specific drug, plenty of markets prohibit the sale of firearms, while others allow only very specific listings, such as a cannabis-only market.
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vandago



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Re: Dark Web Market Bans Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl After Recent Deaths [Re: tdubz] 1
#23599939 - 09/01/16 03:59 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I've been trying to explain to my friends who use H that this is where a lot of their powder is coming from, and it's dangerous. Its finally reached the news, and it's going to attract even more unwanted attention to the darknet.
Just fucking legalize everything and then everyone could know what they are taking and the dosage of said drugs.
Goals.
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Ogla



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Re: Dark Web Market Bans Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl After Recent Deaths [Re: vandago]
#23600149 - 09/01/16 07:12 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Probably just exclusive to that websites and its policies. But, Jah, like Vandago said, alota the people who use H, its probably where its coming from.
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Fractal420
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Re: Dark Web Market Bans Synthetic Opioid Fentanyl After Recent Deaths [Re: Ogla] 1
#23600259 - 09/01/16 08:10 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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This makes me proud! Responsibility, and caring about the entire scene (including street ODs of course, where stuff ends up) is truly surprising and awesome. Fentanyl analogs would further endanger those markets (especially carfent and acetylfent) and RCs took a beating exactly from that too. I am glad that even though Fent may have made them plenty of extra dough, they dont wanna sacrifice peoples health or more likely their semi-off-the-radar existence. Usually its a very slash-and-burn attitude. I am truly surprised
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