I appreciate the relevance of your username; keep loving Big Brother, brother.
Regarding cut products, it's an immature ecosystem, but thanks to efforts from folks like The LSD Avengers[0] drugs on the old Silk Road were becoming safer than normal street drugs when the government shut it down:
> Silk Road seemed to be a safe place to buy really good drugs, if you knew what you were doing. The prices might be higher than what you’d pay on the street, but dealers on Silk Road were held somewhat accountable by the community. The seller-rating system built into the site, along with efforts by unofficial groups like the Avengers, created a meritocracy that rewarded dealers who sold good stuff (with the exception of the infamous tony76 fraud, in which a well-reputed seller took a bulk of orders and disappeared). And when law enforcement tested the wares on Silk Road, police found they typically had a high purity level of the drug advertised.
If you authoritarians would just stop hunting down and arresting drug users then the ones who cared about purity and health would actually have options they were well informed about. The problem isn't a lack of regulation, it's that you've regulated the product so hard that it's legally dangerous to even review it, and you keep attacking/dispersing communities of buyers and sellers which means that it's difficult to keep organized/informed. That you would blame this on the free market is ridiculous. Let people sell and review products, they'll figure it out if you just stop pointing guns at them and locking them in boxes. This problem is absolutely a result of regulation; if you did not regulate LSD at all, finding a source of actual unadulterated LSD would be trivial. Same with cannabis oil.
Regarding cut products, it's an immature ecosystem, but thanks to efforts from folks like The LSD Avengers[0] drugs on the old Silk Road were becoming safer than normal street drugs when the government shut it down:
> Silk Road seemed to be a safe place to buy really good drugs, if you knew what you were doing. The prices might be higher than what you’d pay on the street, but dealers on Silk Road were held somewhat accountable by the community. The seller-rating system built into the site, along with efforts by unofficial groups like the Avengers, created a meritocracy that rewarded dealers who sold good stuff (with the exception of the infamous tony76 fraud, in which a well-reputed seller took a bulk of orders and disappeared). And when law enforcement tested the wares on Silk Road, police found they typically had a high purity level of the drug advertised.
If you authoritarians would just stop hunting down and arresting drug users then the ones who cared about purity and health would actually have options they were well informed about. The problem isn't a lack of regulation, it's that you've regulated the product so hard that it's legally dangerous to even review it, and you keep attacking/dispersing communities of buyers and sellers which means that it's difficult to keep organized/informed. That you would blame this on the free market is ridiculous. Let people sell and review products, they'll figure it out if you just stop pointing guns at them and locking them in boxes. This problem is absolutely a result of regulation; if you did not regulate LSD at all, finding a source of actual unadulterated LSD would be trivial. Same with cannabis oil.
[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/14/4828448/silk-road-lsd-av...