Here is part 2 if you have not seen it
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/4kbng2/about_fentanyl/
We had a very good discussion there that I would like to continue.
Here are some points that were brought up that I would like to expand upon.
Enforcement
Its my belief that self enforcement will happen. Vendors tend to look at their competition, and if they notice that something is wrong then they will report it to market staff for further inspection and investigation. On smaller markets this may mean a need for more staff.
Why fent
When you overdose on weed, you eat all your food and then sleep. When you overdose on meth you eat nothing and instead of sleeping you post on /r/darknetmarkets When you overdose on shrooms you look weird at the festival. When you overdose on cocaine you get a job at alphabay and make threads like this.
But when you overdose on fent, you die. The possibility of deaths weighs very heavily on me.
Alternatives to price fixing
The strangest thing happened, vendor_bbmc had a good idea. Some food coloring or a new pressie die, and so we simply make these fent pressies differentiate themselves from actual oxy. There is no problem with fent blotters, I have always felt that those are the ideal means of dosing fent.
Multi market collaboration.
However this brings me to my final point. Any such changes we make as a community cannot be only done at alphabay. This has to be an industry wide change. The safety and stability this will bring will pay for the new hires that the smaller markets would need, not to mention the name drops on getting second or third place on the signature sheet.
Please everyone, I need more ideas for any possible change. I have done my part for the smallest step forward, bringing in new narcan vendors to the market. I got 10 messages from prospective new vendors and we officially signed on 2 new ones and I think a third.
Every step forward is important.
How do you prevent people from cutting their Heroin and knockoff pharmaceutical pills with Fentanyl ?
That seems to be the main problem. People expecting X and instead get slipped Y and end up catching ZZZZzzzzZZzz's for life.