TIL that first thing ever bought-sold on internet was a bag of Marijuana.

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News in this year's Global Drugs Survey that internet drug dealing was on the rise will have alarmed, surprised or intrigued many people.

In 2013, some people are asking: why even break the law when you could just commission a Chinese lab to synthesise a synthetic marijuana substance that's shown in laboratory conditions to have some of the same effects as marijuana? The law has struggled to keep up.

They have little regard for the consumers of these untested drugs, which were never even designed to be drugs in the first place.

By simply examining drug laws, it is child's play, one clandestine chemist told me, to work around those strictures and create a legal drug: one that is chemically similar to a banned substance but is not itself proscribed.

Even easier is to examine published medical research papers for anything showing increased locomotor activity, or activity at the serotonin or dopamine receptors, since they will be likely to work, in some way or other, as drugs.

Today, the number of new drugs available is accelerating at such a rate that police and toxicologists can't even identify what they are, because they have no reference samples available to compare them with.

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