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No questions asked.</h4> - - <figure name="7417" id="7417"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*3vIhkoHIzcxvUdijoCVx6w.png" data-width="1200" data-height="24" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*3vIhkoHIzcxvUdijoCVx6w.png" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*3vIhkoHIzcxvUdijoCVx6w.png"> - </p></div> - </figure> - <p name="8a83" id="8a83">Standing at a table in a chemistry lab in Barcelona, Cristina Gil Lladanosa - tears open a silver, smell-proof protective envelope. She slides out a - transparent bag full of crystals. Around her, machines whir and hum, and - other researchers mill around in long, white coats.</p> - <p name="b675" id="b675">She is holding the lab’s latest delivery of a drug bought from the “deep - web,” the clandestine corner of the internet that isn’t reachable by normal - search engines, and is home to some sites that require special software - to access. Labeled as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA" data-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA" rel="nofollow">MDMA</a> (the street - term is ecstasy), this sample has been shipped from Canada. Lladanosa and - her colleague Iván Fornís Espinosa have also received drugs, anonymously, - from people in China, Australia, Europe and the United States.</p> - <p name="3c0b" id="3c0b">“Here we have speed, MDMA, cocaine, pills,” Lladanosa says, pointing to - vials full of red, green, blue and clear solutions sitting in labeled boxes.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="c4e6" id="c4e6"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*4gN1-fzOwCniw-DbqQjDeQ.jpeg" data-width="2100" data-height="1402" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*4gN1-fzOwCniw-DbqQjDeQ.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Cristina Gil Lladanosa, at the Barcelona testing lab | photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="7a54" id="7a54">Since 2011, with the launch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29" data-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29" rel="nofollow">Silk Road</a>, anybody has been able to safely buy illegal - drugs from the deep web and have them delivered to their door. Though the - FBI shut down that black market in October 2013, other outlets have emerged - to fill its role. For the last 10 months the lab at which Lladanosa and - Espinosa work has offered a paid testing service of those drugs. By sending - in samples for analysis, users can know exactly what it is they are buying, - and make a more informed decision about whether to ingest the substance. - The group, called <a href="http://energycontrol.org/" data-href="http://energycontrol.org/" rel="nofollow">Energy Control</a>, - which has being running “harm reduction” programs since 1999, is the first - to run a testing service explicitly geared towards verifying those purchases - from the deep web.</p> - <p name="4395" id="4395">Before joining Energy Control, Lladanosa briefly worked at a pharmacy, - whereas Espinosa spent 14 years doing drug analysis. Working at Energy - Control is “more gratifying,” and “rewarding” than her previous jobs, Lladanosa - told me. They also receive help from a group of volunteers, made up of - a mixture of “squatters,” as Espinosa put it, and medical students, who - prepare the samples for testing.</p> - <p name="0c18" id="0c18">After weighing out the crystals, aggressively mixing it with methanol - until dissolved, and delicately pouring the liquid into a tiny brown bottle, - Lladanosa, a petite woman who is nearly engulfed by her lab coat, is now - ready to test the sample. She loads a series of three trays on top of a - large white appliance sitting on a table, called a gas chromatograph (GC). - A jungle of thick pipes hang from the lab’s ceiling behind it.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="559c" id="559c"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*2KPmZkIBUrhps-2uwDvYFQ.jpeg" data-width="2100" data-height="1402" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*2KPmZkIBUrhps-2uwDvYFQ.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="1549" id="1549">“Chromatography separates all the substances,” Lladanosa says as she loads - the machine with an array of drugs sent from the deep web and local Spanish - users. It can tell whether a sample is pure or contaminated, and if the - latter, with what.</p> - <p name="5d0f" id="5d0f">Rushes of hot air blow across the desk as the gas chromatograph blasts - the sample at 280 degrees Celsius. Thirty minutes later the machine’s robotic - arm automatically moves over to grip another bottle. The machine will continue - cranking through the 150 samples in the trays for most of the work week.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="d6aa" id="d6aa"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*PU40bbbox2Ompc5I3RE99A.jpeg" data-width="2013" data-height="1241" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*PU40bbbox2Ompc5I3RE99A.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="15e0" id="15e0">To get the drugs to Barcelona, a user mails at least 10 milligrams of - a substance to the offices of the Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, the - non-government organization that oversees Energy Control. The sample then - gets delivered to the testing service’s laboratory, at the Barcelona Biomedical - Research Park, a futuristic, seven story building sitting metres away from - the beach. Energy Control borrows its lab space from a biomedical research - group for free.</p> - <p name="2574" id="2574">The tests cost 50 Euro per sample. Users pay, not surprisingly, with Bitcoin. - In the post announcing Energy Control’s service on the deep web, the group - promised that “All profits of this service are set aside of maintenance - of this project.”</p> - <p name="2644" id="2644">About a week after testing, those results are sent in a PDF to an email - address provided by the anonymous client.</p> - <p name="9f91" id="9f91">“The process is quite boring, because you are in a routine,” Lladanosa - says. But one part of the process is consistently surprising: that moment - when the results pop up on the screen. “Every time it’s something different.” - For instance, one cocaine sample she had tested also contained phenacetin, - a painkiller added to increase the product’s weight; lidocaine, an anesthetic - that numbs the gums, giving the impression that the user is taking higher - quality cocaine; and common caffeine.</p> - <figure name="b821" id="b821"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png" data-width="1200" data-height="24" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png"> - </p></div> - </figure> - <p name="39a6" id="39a6">The deep web drug lab is the brainchild of Fernando Caudevilla, a Spanish - physician who is better known as “DoctorX” on the deep web, a nickname - given to him by his Energy Control co-workers because of his earlier writing - about the history, risks and recreational culture of MDMA. In the physical - world, Caudevilla has worked for over a decade with Energy Control on various - harm reduction focused projects, most of which have involved giving Spanish - illegal drug users medical guidance, and often writing leaflets about the - harms of certain substances.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="eebc" id="eebc"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*mKvUNOAVQxl6atCbxbCZsg.jpeg" data-width="2100" data-height="1241" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*mKvUNOAVQxl6atCbxbCZsg.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Fernando Caudevilla, AKA DoctorX. Photo: Joseph Cox</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="c099" id="c099">Caudevilla first ventured into Silk Road forums in April 2013. “I would - like to contribute to this forum offering professional advice in topics - related to drug use and health,” he wrote in an <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131015051405/https://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion.to/index.php?topic=147607.0" data-href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131015051405/https://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion.to/index.php?topic=147607.0" rel="nofollow">introductory post</a>, - using his DoctorX alias. Caudevilla offered to provide answers to questions - that a typical doctor is not prepared, or willing, to respond to, at least - not without a lecture or a judgment. “This advice cannot replace a complete - face-to-face medical evaluation,” he wrote, “but I know how difficult it - can be to talk frankly about these things.”</p> - <p name="ff1d" id="ff1d">The requests flooded in. A diabetic asked what effect MDMA has on blood - sugar; another what the risks of frequent psychedelic use were for a young - person. Someone wanted to know whether amphetamine use should be avoided - during lactation. In all, Fernando’s thread received over 50,000 visits - and 300 questions before the FBI shut down Silk Road.</p> - <p name="1f35" id="1f35">“He’s amazing. A gift to this community,” one user wrote on the Silk Road - 2.0 forum, a site that sprang up after the original. “His knowledge is - invaluable, and never comes with any judgment.” Up until recently, Caudevilla - answered questions on the marketplace “Evolution.” Last week, however, - the administrators of that site <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-the-darknets-biggest-markets-may-have-just-stole-all-its-users-bitcoin" data-href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-of-the-darknets-biggest-markets-may-have-just-stole-all-its-users-bitcoin" rel="nofollow">pulled a scam</a>, - shutting the market down and escaping with an estimated $12 million worth - of Bitcoin.</p> - <p name="b20f" id="b20f">Caudevilla’s transition from dispensing advice to starting up a no-questions-asked - drug testing service came as a consequence of his experience on the deep - web. He’d wondered whether he could help bring more harm reduction services - to a marketplace without controls. The Energy Control project, as part - of its mandate of educating drug users and preventing harm, had already - been carrying out drug testing for local Spanish users since 2001, at music - festivals, night clubs, or through a drop-in service at a lab in Madrid.</p> - <p name="f739" id="f739">“I thought, we are doing this in Spain, why don’t we do an international - drug testing service?” Caudevilla told me when I visited the other Energy - Control lab, in Madrid. Caudevilla, a stocky character with ear piercings - and short, shaved hair, has eyes that light up whenever he discusses the - world of the deep web. Later, via email, he elaborated that it was not - a hard sell. “It was not too hard to convince them,” he wrote me. Clearly, - Energy Control believed that the reputation he had earned as an unbiased - medical professional on the deep web might carry over to the drug analysis - service, where one needs to establish “credibility, trustworthiness, [and] - transparency,” Caudevilla said. “We could not make mistakes,” he added.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="4058" id="4058"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*knT10_FNVUmqQIBLnutmzQ.jpeg" data-width="4400" data-height="3141" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*knT10_FNVUmqQIBLnutmzQ.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo: Joseph Cox</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="818c" id="818c"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png" data-width="1200" data-height="24" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png"> - </p></div> - </figure> - <p name="7b5e" id="7b5e">While the Energy Control lab in Madrid lab only tests Spanish drugs from - various sources, it is the Barcelona location which vets the substances - bought in the shadowy recesses of of the deep web. Caudevilla no longer - runs it, having handed it over to his colleague Ana Muñoz. She maintains - a presence on the deep web forums, answers questions from potential users, - and sends back reports when they are ready.</p> - <p name="0f0e" id="0f0e">The testing program exists in a legal grey area. The people who own the - Barcelona lab are accredited to experiment with and handle drugs, but Energy - Control doesn’t have this permission itself, at least not in writing.</p> - <p name="e002" id="e002">“We have a verbal agreement with the police and other authorities. They - already know what we are doing,” Lladanosa tells me. It is a pact of mutual - benefit. Energy Control provides the police with information on batches - of drugs in Spain, whether they’re from the deep web or not, Espinosa says. - They also contribute to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug - Addiction’s early warning system, a collaboration that attempts to spread - information about dangerous drugs as quickly as possible.</p> - <p name="db1b" id="db1b">By the time of my visit in February, Energy Control had received over - 150 samples from the deep web and have been receiving more at a rate of - between 4 and 8 a week. Traditional drugs, such as cocaine and MDMA, make - up about 70 percent of the samples tested, but the Barcelona lab has also - received samples of the prescription pill codeine, research chemicals and - synthetic cannabinoids, and even pills of Viagra.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="b885" id="b885"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*Vr61dyCTRwk6CemmVF8YAQ.jpeg" data-width="2100" data-height="1402" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*Vr61dyCTRwk6CemmVF8YAQ.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="e76f" id="e76f">So it’s fair to make a tentative judgement on what people are paying for - on the deep web. The verdict thus far? Overall, drugs on the deep web appear - to be of much higher quality than those found on the street.</p> - <p name="5352" id="5352">“In general, the cocaine is amazing,” says Caudevilla, saying that the - samples they’ve seen have purities climbing towards 80 or 90 percent, and - some even higher. To get an idea of how unusual this is, take a look at - the <a href="http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr2014/Cocaine_2014_web.pdf" data-href="http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr2014/Cocaine_2014_web.pdf" rel="nofollow">United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime World Drug Report 2014</a>, - which reports that the average quality of street cocaine in Spain is just - over 40 percent, while in the United Kingdom it is closer to 30 percent.“We - have found 100 percent [pure] cocaine,” he adds. “That’s really, really - strange. That means that, technically, this cocaine has been purified, - with clandestine methods.”</p> - <p name="a71c" id="a71c">Naturally, identifying vendors who sell this top-of-the-range stuff is - one of the reasons that people have sent samples to Energy Control. Caudevilla - was keen to stress that, officially, Energy Control’s service “is not intended - to be a control of drug quality,” meaning a vetting process for identifying - the best sellers, but that is exactly how some people have been using it.</p> - <p name="cb5b" id="cb5b">As one buyer on the Evolution market, elmo666, wrote to me over the site’s - messaging system, “My initial motivations were selfish. My primary motivation - was to ensure that I was receiving and continue to receive a high quality - product, essentially to keep the vendor honest as far as my interactions - with them went.”</p> - <p name="d80d" id="d80d">Vendors on deep web markets advertise their product just like any other - outlet does, using flash sales, gimmicky giveaways and promises of drugs - that are superior to those of their competitors. The claims, however, can - turn out to be empty: despite the test results that show that deep web - cocaine vendors typically sell product that is of a better quality than - that found on the street, in plenty of cases, the drugs are nowhere near - as pure as advertised.</p> - <p name="36de" id="36de">“You won’t be getting anything CLOSE to what you paid for,” one user complained - about the cocaine from ‘Mirkov’, a vendor on Evolution. “He sells 65% not - 95%.”</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="8544" id="8544"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*a-1_13xE6_ErQ-QSlz6myw.jpeg" data-width="2100" data-height="1402" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*a-1_13xE6_ErQ-QSlz6myw.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="d521" id="d521"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png" data-width="1200" data-height="24" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*ohyycinH18fz98TCyUzVgQ.png"> - </p></div> - </figure> - <p name="126b" id="126b">Despite the prevalence of people using the service to gauge the quality - of what goes up their nose, many users send samples to Energy Control in - the spirit of its original mission: keeping themselves alive and healthy. - The worst case scenario from drugs purchased on the deep web is, well the - worst case. That was the outcome when <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenager-patrick-mcmullen-who-died-while-on-skype-had-bought-drugs-from-silk-road-8942329.html" data-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenager-patrick-mcmullen-who-died-while-on-skype-had-bought-drugs-from-silk-road-8942329.html" rel="nofollow">Patrick McMullen,</a> a - 17-year-old Scottish student, ingested half a gram of MDMA and three tabs - of LSD, reportedly purchased from the Silk Road. While talking to his friends - on Skype, his words became slurred and he passed out. Paramedics could - not revive him. The coroner for that case, Sherrif Payne, who deemed the - cause of death ecstasy toxicity, told <em>The Independent</em> “You - never know the purity of what you are taking and you can easily come unstuck.”</p> - <p name="5e9e" id="5e9e">ScreamMyName, a deep web user who has been active since the original Silk - Road, wants to alert users to the dangerous chemicals that are often mixed - with drugs, and is using Energy Control as a means to do so.</p> - <p name="19a6" id="19a6">“We’re at a time where some vendors are outright sending people poison. - Some do it unknowingly,” ScreamMyName told me in an encrypted message. - “Cocaine production in South America is often tainted with either levamisole - or phenacetine. Both poison to humans and both with severe side effects.”</p> - <p name="9fef" id="9fef">In the case of Levamisole, those prescribing it are often not doctors - but veterinarians, as Levamisole is commonly used on animals, primarily - for the treatment of worms. If ingested by humans it can lead to cases - of extreme eruptions of the skin, as <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22127712" data-href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22127712" rel="nofollow">documented in a study</a> from researchers at the University - of California, San Francisco. But Lladanosa has found Levamisole in cocaine - samples; dealers use it to increase the product weight, allowing them to - stretch their batch further for greater profit — and also, she says, because - Levamisole has a strong stimulant effect.</p> - <p name="7886" id="7886">“It got me sick as fuck,” Dr. Feel, an Evolution user, wrote on the site’s - forums after consuming cocaine that had been cut with 23 percent Levamisole, - and later tested by Energy Control. “I was laid up in bed for several days - because of that shit. The first night I did it, I thought I was going to - die. I nearly drove myself to the ER.”</p> - <p name="18d3" id="18d3">“More people die because of tainted drugs than the drugs themselves,” - Dr. Feel added. “It’s the cuts and adulterants that are making people sick - and killing them.”</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="552a" id="552a"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*IWXhtSsVv0gNnCwnDEXk-Q.jpeg" data-width="2100" data-height="1192" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*IWXhtSsVv0gNnCwnDEXk-Q.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="839a" id="839a">The particular case of cocaine cut with Levamisole is one of the reasons - that ScreamMyName has been pushing for more drug testing on the deep web - markets. “I recognize that drug use isn’t exactly healthy, but why exacerbate - the problem?” he told me when I contacted him after his post. “[Energy - Control] provides a way for users to test the drugs they’ll use and for - these very users to know what it is they’re putting in their bodies. Such - services are in very short supply.”</p> - <p name="18dc" id="18dc">After sending a number of Energy Control tests himself, ScreamMyName started - a de facto crowd-sourcing campaign to get more drugs sent to the lab, and - then shared the results, after throwing in some cash to get the ball rolling. - <a href="https://blockchain.info/address/1Mi6VjMFqjcD48FPV7cnPB24MAtQQenRy3" data-href="https://blockchain.info/address/1Mi6VjMFqjcD48FPV7cnPB24MAtQQenRy3" rel="nofollow">He set up a Bitcoin wallet</a>, with the hope that users might chip in - to fund further tests. At the time of writing, the wallet has received - a total of 1.81 bitcoins; around $430 at today’s exchange rates.</p> - <p name="dcbd" id="dcbd">In posts to the Evolution community, ScreamMyName pitched this project - as something that will benefit users and keep drug dealer honest. “When - the funds build up to a point where we can purchase an [Energy Control] - test fee, we’ll do a US thread poll for a few days and try to cohesively - decide on what vendor to test,” he continued.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="9d32" id="9d32"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*NGcrjfkV0l37iQH2uyYjEw.jpeg" data-width="1368" data-height="913" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*NGcrjfkV0l37iQH2uyYjEw.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="bff6" id="bff6">Other members of the community have been helping out, too. PlutoPete, - a vendor from the original Silk Road who sold cannabis seeds and other - legal items, has provided ScreamMyName with packaging to safely send the - samples to Barcelona. “A box of baggies, and a load of different moisture - barrier bags,” PlutoPete told me over the phone. “That’s what all the vendors - use.”</p> - <p name="bb78" id="bb78">It’s a modest program so far. ScreamMyName told me that so far he had - gotten enough public funding to purchase five different Energy Control - tests, in addition to the ten or so he’s sent himself so far. “The program - created is still in its infancy and it is growing and changing as we go - along but I have a lot of faith in what we’re doing,” he says.</p> - <p name="5638" id="5638">But the spirit is contagious: elmo666, the other deep web user testing - cocaine, originally kept the results of the drug tests to himself, but - he, too, saw a benefit to distributing the data. “It is clear that it is - a useful service to other users, keeping vendors honest and drugs (and - their users) safe,” he told me. He started to report his findings to others - on the forums, and then created a thread with summaries of the test results, - as well as comments from the vendors if they provided it. Other users were - soon basing their decisions on what to buy on elmo666‘s tests.</p> - <p name="de75" id="de75">“I’m defo trying the cola based on the incredibly helpful elmo and his - energy control results and recommendations,” wrote user jayk1984. On top - of this, elmo666 plans to launch an independent site on the deep web that - will collate all of these results, which should act as a resource for users - of all the marketplaces.</p> - <p name="6b72" id="6b72">As word of elmo666's efforts spread, he began getting requests from drug - dealers who wanted him to use their wares for testing. Clearly, they figured - that a positive result from Energy Control would be a fantastic marketing - tool to draw more customers. They even offered elmo666 free samples. (He - passed.)</p> - <p name="b008" id="b008">Meanwhile, some in the purchasing community are arguing that those running - markets on the deep web should be providing quality control themselves. - PlutoPete told me over the phone that he had been in discussions about - this with Dread Pirate Roberts, the pseudonymous owner of the original - Silk Road site. “We [had been] talking about that on a more organized basis - on Silk Road 1, doing lots of anonymous buys to police each category. But - of course they took the thing [Silk Road] down before we got it properly - off the ground,” he lamented.</p> - <p name="49c8" id="49c8">But perhaps it is best that the users, those who are actually consuming - the drugs, remain in charge of shaming dealers and warning each other. - “It’s our responsibility to police the market based on reviews and feedback,” - elmo666 wrote in an Evolution forum post. It seems that in the lawless - space of the deep web, where everything from child porn to weapons are - sold openly, users have cooperated in an organic display of self-regulation - to stamp out those particular batches of drugs that are more likely to - harm users.</p> - <p name="386d" id="386d">“That’s always been the case with the deep web,” PlutoPete told me. Indeed, - ever since Silk Road, a stable of the drug markets has been the review - system, where buyers can leave a rating and feedback for vendors, letting - others know about the reliability of the seller. But DoctorX’s lab, rigorously - testing the products with scientific instruments, takes it a step further.</p> - </div> - <div> - <figure name="890b" id="890b"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*WRlKt3q3mt7utmwxcbl3sQ.jpeg" data-width="2100" data-height="1373" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*WRlKt3q3mt7utmwxcbl3sQ.jpeg"> - </p></div> - <figcaption>Photo by Joan Bardeletti</figcaption> - </figure> - </div> - <div> - <p name="b109" id="b109">“In the white market, they have quality control. In the dark market, it - should be the same,” Cristina Gil Lladanosa says to me before I leave the - Barcelona lab.</p> - <p name="e3a4" id="e3a4">A week after I visit the lab, the results of the MDMA arrive in my inbox: - it is 85 percent pure, with no indications of other active ingredients. - Whoever ordered that sample from the digital shelves of the deep web, and - had it shipped to their doorstep in Canada, got hold of some seriously - good, and relatively safe drugs. And now they know it.</p> - <figure name="31cf" id="31cf"> - <div> - - <p><img data-image-id="1*320_4I0lxbn5x3bx4XPI5Q.png" data-width="1200" data-height="24" data-action="zoom" data-action-value="1*320_4I0lxbn5x3bx4XPI5Q.png" src="https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*320_4I0lxbn5x3bx4XPI5Q.png"> - </p></div> - </figure> - <p name="9b87" id="9b87" data-align="center"><em>Top photo by Joan Bardeletti</em> - </p> - <p name="c30a" id="c30a" data-align="center">Follow Backchannel: <a href="https://twitter.com/backchnnl" data-href="https://twitter.com/backchnnl" rel="nofollow"><em>Twitter</em></a> - <em>|</em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Backchannel/1488568504730671" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Backchannel/1488568504730671" rel="nofollow"><em>Facebook</em></a> - </p> - </div> - </div>
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