• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    One Google search later,

    Selling counterfeit illicit drugs is illegal even if the substances used to make the imitation drug are not illegal on themselves

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      1 month ago

      I imagine that’s only if you market it as drugs.

      “Hey you got the good drugs?” “Yeah here”

      But what if you played the long con, started…say a salt distribution ring. Have a run down house full of it, sell it in baggies, make it look as suspicious as possible only for them to do stakeouts, get informants in there, just to find you are not doing anything illegal at all, it just has all the signs without the actual law breaking. If you call it salt they’ll probably think it’s a code name for a drug

      “Hey you got the good salt?” “Yeah here”

      goes back to the police lab

      “wtf? It’s just salt?”

      Then they would just think the informant got compromised and have to raid the house lol

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      1 month ago

      As with every legal topic on the Internet: depending on your (international) jurisdiction.