Just to make things short: There was a major cannabis bust just few hours before near my house in Germany (not myself; a neighbour). Several police vw buses were loaded with plants and high class growing equipement. Aproximately 100+ plants and several bags full of weed. As sad as it is, this happens from time to time and is nothing very special. There are lots of people growing. But there are some facts I noticed due to which i decided to share this with you:
- The guy who lived in the raided flat ran an IT service from the same place. So he was an IT expert and is therefore quite likely to at least theoretically know about DNMs.
- I was just able to observe the bust from an window on an upper floor and it was quite dark already but I think I noticed them carrying out a box filled with typical white and brown postage envelopes.
- All his technical stuff was seized. Computers etc.
This might all just be an random incident and unrelated to DNMs but all together it MIGHT be a good idea to stay alerted in case of german cannabis vendors during the next days ....
The chance of you witnessing a random bust which is connected to the Darknet is unbelievable small. I don't think you have any idea how big the German growing scene is and how few German growers vendors actually operate. Just by going off the chances I can make a wild guess and tell you with a 99.9% certainty that this has nothing to do with the Darknet. There are a few thousand big scale growing operations in Germany and a few hundred professional Dutch growers operating out of Germany. And if you have the contacts to grow on such a big scale you don't sell on the Darknet, it would be a waste off time.