Bitcoin, the future of black market trade!
Because, you know, it makes perfect sense to use an "Internet cash" that can be traced to your IP address by authorities with little trouble. And then, buy drugs online and provide your post address to a central party, where thereby it can be easily collected once the site is busted.
As a paranoid customer you could use the method I outline above also, and have your goods delivered to a block, with communal post, with a fake name.
(again just a thought exercise)
(In reality as someone posted above, it is far easier to walk down to your local bar, chat to your local friends, and get whatever one could need within minutes, at leas this is the case in most cities around the world, in my experience, and is certainly true of London. No shootings, no stabbings (sure they happen, usually gang related/organised crime)
In my local area, and all over London and much of the U.K to be honest the police, do not care much about use, and less and less about low level distributors, unless they fall into their laps, which they often do. The government may say in public that they care, but they seem to have gone so far off the boil in that respect that it is laughable, and also they really do know that in 100% of the bars and restaurants and clubs in London, drugs are freely available pretty much every night of the week, these people are not even hiding, and more to the point in London now, from the dustman, to the judge, to the doctor, to the police officer , to the office worker, from the working class the middle class and to the rich , drugs are everywhere, and I mean everywhere. In the UK there is very little social stigma attached anymore to the issue (behind closed doors)
The reality of it is drug use will slowly become decriminalised and reclassified and replaced by education, controls, production and taxing. And after all why not, it is the only thing that will work in reducing the harm that goes hand in hand with the illegal global drug trade. It will reduce crime, reduce income for organised crime, and reduce the cost on the tax payer both in terms of health and policing/incarceration, and will eventually overtime via education make drug abuse less likely/harmful.
