In 2015, It's This Easy to Start Your Own Lucrative Student Drug Ring

In a world where drugs were completely legal, Liam Reynolds and his undergraduate mates would be hailed as over-achievers. While others on the International Business degree at Leeds Beckett University were spending their downtime learning the best number-of-pints-to-tactical-chunder ratio, Reynolds et al. were putting theory into practice by running a successful drug ring. After attending daytime lectures in modules such as Digital Marketing and Supply Chain Management, they ran their business from a student house in Leeds where four of them lived. They made payments for ecstasy, LSD, and cannabis by accessing the now defunct Silk Road, using the anonymous digital currency Bitcoin. The drug packages arrived in the post and all they had to do was dish them out. Unfortunately for Reynolds and his team of entrepreneurs, the police soon caught wind of their mini-Medellin operation. An investigation found "a very sophisticated and highly organized criminal enterprise that for a sustained period of time imported substantial quantities of controlled drugs into the UK and supplied them in the city's student community."

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Comments


[162 Points] XeroxSnowman:

I don't like the sensationalist comparison these types of articles make. Pablo Escobar of student drug ring? Give me a break. Pablo Escobar & the like move fucking tons of drugs and deal with billions of dollars. They run a true crime enterprise where police gets bribed, smugglers run across borders, and people unfortunate enough to get caught in the crossfire lose their lives. These are the guys that use FUCKING SUBMARINES to transport drugs; apparently a college kid with a laptop is in the same league.


[44 Points] FortunateSonDM:

"a very sophisticated and highly organized criminal enterprise that for a sustained period of time imported substantial quantities of controlled drugs into the UK and supplied them in the city's student community." A house full of college kids sold pot out of their house to other college kids? Real. Fucking. Sophisticated.


[26 Points] Swansonisms:

I can't stop imagining a comedy series in which these college kids actually convinced themselves they were just like Escobar and the hilariousness that would ensue. Picture a Mexican style J-Roc from the trailer park boys now multiply him times four. Would be GREAT


[13 Points] None:

Lucrative student drug rings have always been an easy if risky operation. I knew frat bros who moved pounds of bud a week and this was before the darknet.


[11 Points] gonzobon:

It's not easy. I'm not a vendor but just looking at it from their shoes sheds light on this false statement.

Not only do you have to find a legitimate and professional supplier but you have to figure out a way to send bulk drugs through an increasingly scrutinized postal service.

If anything happens to you or your supplier, one bust, one slip of a tongue from someone else to the wrong person... you're still done.

To boot, you have to understand secure communications and trust in TOR. Not to mention other steps of OPSEC that vendors don't share.

On top of all of that you have to handle laundering your coins and cashing out along with your customer service.

It's a full time job to be a vendor.


[7 Points] gnahckire:

I don't post here but I would highly advise against doing this at your university/school.

Being known as a drug dealer in your school has it's bulk of problems as well as benefits. If anyone is going to do this please analyze the full bulk tradeoffs. If you think it's JUST a way to make a quick buck you're in way over your head.

It takes forever to get out of the game.


[2 Points] imnotfrosty:

If drugs were decriminalized, this story would have no raison de etre. It would be a big, fat non-sequitur. Your LSD would come from Pfizer and your MDMA would come from Sinofi-Aventis. /r/DarkNetMarkets would not exist, and Liam and his mates would be working on their pints/chunder ratio.


[3 Points] Lightmang2:

If he's running a "a very sophisticated and highly organized criminal enterprise" then some of the people on here are the damn Illuminati of drugs.


[1 Points] givemeoil420:

We have seen a lot of young college aged students , they have gotten busted in the past 2 years... from frat houses to dorms we here about it here on the sub.... to being vendors of double digit mill Xanax empire ...


[1 Points] None:

everybody gets caught


[-9 Points] None:

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