I've seen steroid buyers discuss on the clearnet with no seemingly worry on their mind. Sure, vendors are still careful, but it seems the buyers don't think twice of their safety. Reading reports of busts I've never seen someone who was caught for ordering steroid vials/pills (powder from international sure, but domestic of those two? never).
Why is this?
It's schedule III and doesn't have the sigma of a drug. Vendors operate openly fine, but every couple of years when the market gets saturated theres always some type of big bust.
The steroid market has already achieved the goal of moving the entire market on the internet, giving the manufacturers direct access to the customer, ridding itself of the negatives that come with the traditional drug trade.