Dark web drug dealer used NHS logo and called himself the ‘Narcotic Health Service’

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  1. >*he was logged onto his online selling site and tried to destroy evidence by throwing a glass a water over his laptop keyboard in the hope of causing it to crash.*

    Mac user obvs.

  2. > Kevin Barry, prosecuting, told the court that the online business Dunphy was running carried the widely-recognised NHS logo as its badge along with the strapline: “Narcotic Health Service”.

    That’s pretty funny.

    Regardless of what you think about drugs or drug dealing, his branding was an amusing joke. There’s roughly a zero percent chance that anyone would see his *Narcotic Health Service* branding and think that he was part of the National Health Service, so there are no legal “passing off” issues here – it’s pure parody.

    So I’m not sure why the bit where he didn’t do anything wrong is the bit they’re focussing on in the headline.

  3. What an arrogant little cyber dealing piece of lowlife.

    Hopefully confiscation proceedings will seize a sizeable chunk of his ill gotten gains and a few months analysis of his computers & phones will lead to the identification of the majority of the members of his criminal network.

  4. Unless you’re going to shut down all imports by establishing *Juche*, dealers like this are going to become established, they are going to successfully import from abroad or grow locally, and they are going to ply their trade on Tor and I2P using untraceable cryptocurrencies.

    The darknet markets have actually advanced significantly in both operation and procedure; many are around these days and you do not hear about them being seized and shutdown anywhere near as often now.

    We can either continue this pointless drug war which has observably failed by any measure you could put to it, or legalise, regulate and tax some or most drugs (for example, cannabis, which is measurably safer than alcohol) which will bring in significant amount of tax income and also save the taxpayer money by freeing people from prison, and restoring their employment opportunities by wiping their criminal records clean, for being caught smoking a plant.

    Some developed countries such as Canada have done this and are raking in the taxes from it.

  5. I think one of the issues with legalising drugs is gangs can still run their businesses at a cheaper rate due to not having to pay taxes but at least it’s something rather than nothing. I know a lot of weed growers in America stopped growing weed illegally to grow it legally.

  6. Oh shit, I remember seeing his shop on one of the darkweb marketplaces, the name stuck out from all the usual stuff like Dr Weed and the likes

  7. Actual NHS collapsing, dark web NHS going to prison. He gets out in four years – let’s see which NHS can come back strong first

  8. I know someone that supposedly used his ketamine to cure their treatment resistant depression.

    It’s available in private clinics for like £1000 per session (it takes up to a half dozen sessions), which is unaffordable for a mere pleb – so my friend really appreciated being able to do it themselves at home

  9. That’s smart 😂, I say he should be allowed to continue to operate, just for coming up with it

  10. Just saying, the Silk Road owner got handed a life sentence for doing this, and he didn’t even lsit any drugs on the site himself. He’s been in prison for almost 10 years now. It really goes to show the difference between UK and US legal system.

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