# I had no idea this existed! 'The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable' **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996 "2011-06-01T19:26:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/1 "2011-06-01T19:26:55Z")
Fascinating article! [The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable](http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable) > [@](#): > > Adrian Chen—Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road. > > About three weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service delivered an ordinary envelope to Mark’s door. Inside was a tiny plastic bag containing 10 tabs of LSD. “If you had opened it, unless you were looking for it, you wouldn’t have even noticed,” Mark told us in a phone interview. > > Mark, a software developer, had ordered the 100 micrograms of acid through a listing on the online marketplace Silk Road. He found a seller with lots of good feedback who seemed to know what they were talking about, added the acid to his digital shopping cart and hit “check out.” He entered his address and paid the seller 50 Bitcoins—untraceable digital currency—worth around $150. Four days later the drugs, sent from Canada, arrived at his house. > > “It kind of felt like I was in the future,” Mark said. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/2 "2011-06-01T19:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > It kind of felt like I was in the future," Mark said. Acid will do that. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/3 "2011-06-01T20:02:47Z")
Well, so much for “let’s keep this quiet”… ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/4 "2011-06-01T21:49:46Z")
Since the link in the OP is only to an article, I’m going to let this thread be for the time being. As always, everyone please remember our rules concerning illicit drugs as set forth [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7696990&postcount=5), which in a nutshell prohibit discussion of current use and/or how to circumvent the laws to obtain them illegally. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/5 "2011-06-02T09:16:03Z")
I thought this was going to be a spam thread. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/6 "2011-06-02T12:50:49Z")
mind bottling… ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/7 "2011-06-02T18:05:45Z")
There are other websites out there, in particular Canadian sites selling cannabis. A popular choice for local middle-class stoners who prefer not to get involved with the paramilitaries who control the drug business here. Basically, I’m told, the worst that can happen is that a package gets confiscated before delivery ( if addressed to " the Occupier" there is plausible deniability, and the cops aren’t interested in investigating) or stolen by a postal worker. I learnt this from a patient, after asking how much he smoked per week, and being told that it was “£X, plus P&P”. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/8 "2011-06-02T19:01:14Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > mind bottling… [Like this?](http://www.theocentric.com/assets/brainvat.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-no-idea-this-existed-the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable/583996/9 "2011-06-02T20:06:52Z")
I’m actually more interested in the whole “untraceable digital money” idea behind the bitcoins themselves. That whole idea just seems screwy to me, and I’m really fascinated by it. I heard about it a week or so ago on NPR and thought it was a joke, but it really is an established “currency” of a sort. Truly weird.