Buying darkweb drugs with crypto still a risk — even if you leave a review
A recent investigation by The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has found that just 65% of drugs purchased online using crypto contained the substances as advertised. This is despite a widely-held perception that illicit drugs bought in this way are likely to be of higher quality and therefore ‘safer.’ RMIT University, working in conjunction with the Australian National University, The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), and Canadian testing facility Get Your Drugs Tested, collected 103 samples of drugs from a darknet forum called Test4Pay and analyzed them for purity and substituted substances. The research — reportedly carried out using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy with immunoassay strip tests — discovered that just 65% of the drugs purchased were as listed while 21% contained a completely different substance, and 14% contained the advertised drug mixed with other chemicals. Drugs such as cocaine, ketamine, 2C-B, and alprazo...