Vendor selling one thing as something else

Just curious, but if a vendor was offering say a schedule 1 controlled substance but disguising this substance as a legal chemical with effects similar enough to mimic those of the drug advertised (less potent), how would the law handle this scenario should he/she be busted? For instance if this substance is sold legally as a supplement, not a sketchy research chemical, elsewhere, the only thing they would technically have on the vendor might be tax evasion. Even then he/she could set up a legitimate "supplement" company that only accepts Bitcoin and then have the income taxed.

Thoughts?


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[3 Points] papayabananatree:

Why would a vendor on the DNM disguise an illegal substance as a legal one? The point of the DNMs is to sell illegal substances. You can just buy legal substances without the DNMs, so to attract customers you generally have to be selling the illegal substance. Which you means you have to advertise it as such.

If someone were to do this, the vendor would just get fucked anyway. A busted customer/user would say they thought they were buying the legal substance. The law would not look kindly on someone disguising an illegal substance as a legal one


[1 Points] birdbBiotic:

it is a criminal offense to sell fake drugs under the pretenses they are drugs. there are a few example cases since 2010 someone linked to here in an earlier thread in the past 3 months I believe. the question was could you get prosecuted for selling bunk (placebo) drugs and the answer was yes, there are cases where this has gone through the court system.


[1 Points] None:

Then that vendor would be a peice of shit and not last very long


[0 Points] pantalones44:

Other way around, brochacho. Legal substance disguised as illegal. Generally the illegal substances are pricier.


[0 Points] pantalones44:

Presumably to a lesser extent than if you were actual long selling the scheduled substances?


[0 Points] pantalones44:

Looked into it. If it's across state lines (which it would be) you can be charged for every single fraud sale respectively. That's A LOT of jail time. VENDOR BEWARE..lol