i cant believe this is happening in our own neighborhood. And to think, i always had to drive across town to get that stuff
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screwbienoob2 days ago
+92
You not getting it delivered to your door? It's 2026 bro
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lolcatandy2 days ago
+37
The door? That's 2024. Straight to my nose is 2026
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screwbienoob2 days ago
+12
Damn he just stand there with the key at the door? I need an upgrade
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PatriotNews_dot_com2 days ago
+7
Actually it’s now a drone delivering it from the sky. All you have to do is step out the door and tilt your head back
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sun_cardinal1 day ago
+1
Careful, now some AI tech bro is going to pitch autonomous drug delivery drones that facehug you at 100KPH before blasting you with drugs.
1
Idiot_Savant_132 days ago
+31
"Mini-marts providing things people actually want to buy" seems a strange kind of headline to expect outrage, I gotta admit.
Viral advertising, maybe?
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foghillgal2 days ago
-3
Apu from the Simpson would be sll over this c*** ;-) he’d sell you expired cocaine too :-)
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lizzie98761 day ago
Neighbourhood.
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RandomKnobhead2 days ago
+183
This is going to revolutionise meal deals
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Brief_Hospital_17662 days ago
+48
Boots at Manor House offering £4.99 Meal Deal with Sandwich, Crisps, Drink, and your choice of Twix or a bump of Charlie.
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PegasusPedicures2 days ago
+10
Finally a healthy alternative to chocolate!
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Brief_Hospital_17661 day ago
+2
Makes the post lunch lag go away!
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JD39821 day ago
+2
What are the macros on that on myfitnesspal
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dimwalker2 days ago
+11
One hamburger, cup of coke and a line of coke.
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smurfsundermybed2 days ago
+4
Kids meal comes with a Peppa Pig keybump.
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TapCat132 days ago
+3
Here in NL we already had the Weedza :)
just 10euro's extra and of you were !
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SendMeDickPics4202 days ago
+3
Didn't know they used the euro in Newfoundland
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TapCat131 day ago
+1
lol
NL, Netherlands
never knew it could be Newfoundland in short :)
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Filmyboicrispy1 day ago
+1
5 pound munch just got real
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TombolaOfCincinnatus2 days ago
+121
They don't call it high street for nothing.
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TiredOfDebates2 days ago
+1
Apparently "high street" in the UK is the equivalent of "main street" in the USA.
The street is "high" because it's literally has an elevation higher than most places in the surrounding area. In the rainy UK (and prior to paved roads everywhere), the elevated streets would be less ruined by lots of traffic in wet conditions, and that's where shopkeepers wanted to set up.
Highways are called highways because in the long ago, they were also built to be higher than the surrounding land, keeping the way clear in rainy conditions.
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FlukemanFrancis2 days ago
+177
Oh my god, that’s disgusting. Drugs in mini-marts? Where? Where can you buy those?
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+14
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zizou002 days ago
+7
Just doing our part, getting it out of the community. It's a tough job, not something to sniff at, but someone's gotta do it.
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kingofcheezwiz2 days ago
+3
The Onion Router is that way ➡️
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Medallicat1 day ago
+2
Do they use uber?
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DistanceToEmpty1 day ago
+10
Cocaine? In this economy?
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iiKb2 days ago
+35
Apparently I’ve been going to the wrong mini-marts…
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Global_Criticism31782 days ago
+31
Do they have a points program?
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mixxituk2 days ago
+52
It's almost like prohibition leads to organised crime and dangerous counterfeit products that humans consume
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SamsonFox22 days ago
-29
So, which drugs would you legalize and how would you legalize them?
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Sutraner2 days ago
+7
Pretty much everything except heroin, meth and crack
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plsQuestionOurselves1 day ago
+1
The world would be a better place if coca leaves and opium tea were legal. The problem would be the people who are already addicted to fentanyl/crack/meth who wouldn't really be affected by these less potent drugs anymore.
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HYDROMORPHONE_ZONE1 day ago
-3
Ironically in the US two are legal. Methamphetamine is Schedule II and Cocaine (crack might be excluded but it’s the same drug) is Schedule II as well. In the UK, Heroin is used in hospitals and the like and called diamorphine. It might be a POM (prescription only medicine), methamphetamine might be legal because I’m almost positive regular amphetamine would be POM there, and crack (cocaine) might be POM or even more restricted like Heroin (diamorphine, diacetylmorphine).
Everything should be legal and sold more or less like alcohol. You can add purchase limits and the like but it would be objectively safer if that was done because then the black market would eventually vanish along with adulterated drugs
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Gardez_geekin1 day ago
+1
All of them. And I would regulate their production and sale for quality and tax them at the point of sale and from distributors to retailers.
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BritishAnimator2 days ago
+23
Police don't care, don't do anything if informed. Nothing has changed in decades and nothing will change now.
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dizietembless2 days ago
+10
Interestingly enough when there’s enough negative publicity they can get off their sorry arse
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w3v77l23xo
Seems like our tv license and newspaper journos are more effective at policing than the police.
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Howaboutnopers1 day ago
+2
Those TV license people...
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kaiserkeller_2 days ago
+20
But God help you if you offend someone online
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Lonely_Sale97072 days ago
+44
Legalize, regulate, tax FFS
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Tricky_Potatoe2 days ago
+16
Reminds me of my time in SE Asia. Those were the daze... days.
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TiredOfDebates2 days ago
+8
I guess they didn't have the ability to show him their recorded footage?
I wanted to watch the classic flip from "what evidence do you have ***bro***?" to "oh well yeah that is pretty good evidence."
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GMBong2 days ago
+5
They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street.
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BeneficialTrash62 days ago
+6
"No, Black Dynamite. I sell drugs *to* the community."
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EatinSumGrapes2 days ago
+5
Illegal drugs being sold out of mini-mart locations?! Who would have thought
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ThreeHeadedWalrus2 days ago
+27
What a fuckin snitch hahaha
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Darnell20702 days ago
-10
This genuinely makes me upset. Especially since they have this young man's face right on the f****** front page. Ruining these people's lives and livelihoods. Truly scumbag behavior on the BBC's part when there are so much bigger issues.
Drugs aren't the problem. It's the lack of regulation for tax and treatment. Adults should have the right to put anything into their bodies, even poison, without government intervention.
This is bullshit.
-10
Paaskonijn2 days ago
+8
As if coke production in South America doesn't cause a huge amount of misery... keep your head in the sand.
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Darnell20701 day ago
+4
And governments should be responsible and regulate drugs and control quality for safety.
Unless you're harming others through your actions you should have complete control over your own body. You shouldn't want government telling you what you can and can't do to your own body.
Now maybe there can be limits within reason, but largely, every adult with functioning braincells should see that the war on drugs is a f****** failure and does more harm than good.
Why should these people from this investigation have their lives ruined over things that should already be legal in the first place. Then you don't have to worry as much about underground trade.
A person can already abuse alcohol and ruin their life. Are you against alcohol being legal?
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Paaskonijn1 day ago
-1
Making dumb hyperboles sure gets your point across.
Do you understand why ivory is banned? Hint: it is not because the material is harmful.
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Darnell20701 day ago
+3
Coke production causes a huge amount of misery because of the war on drugs and lack of legalization and regulation.
If drugs were universally legal cartels would have zero power
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Nolenag1 day ago
+3
Have you seen what meat production is doing to South America?
Hint: actually worse than cocaine production.
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CrownCommando2 days ago
-3
F*** him.
-3
nativerestorations12 days ago
+2
The video isn’t working. It won’t play for me at all. I wanted to see their face change when they realized to whom they were speaking.
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GardenGnomeOrgy2 days ago
+5
I mean you gotta get them somewhere…
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cmmndrkn6131 day ago
+2
Man, all we get at our convenience stores here in Australia is black market ciggies.
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lynch19862 days ago
+2
This poor guy just wanted to go to work, now his chevy's all over the six o'clock news, lol.
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ZonerLoner2 days ago
+1
Stay high, street! 🚬
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CommunalJellyRoll2 days ago
+2
Bodegas
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UpsyDowning2 days ago
+1
Blowdegas…
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myotheraccount20231 day ago
+2
Legalise it and regulate it and this problem will magically disappear.
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+1
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Kjb721 day ago
+1
High street indeed.
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tovarish221 day ago
+1
Well, yeah. What else were they supposed to be for?
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happyscrappy1 day ago
+1
mini-marts are the new american candy stores?
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Littman-Express1 day ago
+1
And people are only just discovering this?
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cyberianscribe2 days ago
-2
We're going to need a penal colony.
-2
jefbenet2 days ago
+7
How do you feel about a large isolated island?
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diacachimba1 day ago
+2
In the Southern Hemisphere, perhaps.
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ivodaniello2 days ago
+2
Any place near SE London so i can avoid?
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DistanceToEmpty1 day ago
+1
Say it with me: Bo-de-ga.
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Kramerica5A2 days ago
Wtf, when I was there in September I couldn't find anything!
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Dave_Tee831 day ago
I really hope there aren't any of these places in Manchester or surrounding areas. If anybody knows of any please post or DM so I can be sure to totally stay away. Thanks.
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Great_Party2 days ago
-9
Legalize cocaine
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CSmith4892 days ago
-10
Foreigners poisoning the streets and nothing is done about it
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Montaigne3142 days ago
-11
If he's only selling to adults, who cares? He needs to start ID'ing people, pay tax on the revenue, and now you have a legitimate drug store!
The most dangerous drug they mention in the article is N2O and that one should just be off the market, absurdly stupid drug
-11
TheBuddha7772 days ago
+13
The article says it's run by organized crime and surrounding businesses have been shaken down by gangs. So it's not really about adults getting high in their own homes, it's about the attendant lawlessness.
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mixxituk2 days ago
+6
You should see the counterfit cigarettes my grandma smoked they'd strip the wallpaper
And the mad guys roaming Brighton from the spice laced sprayed synthetic weed they sell
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Bmartin_2 days ago
+1
Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub
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Different-Bag-82171 day ago
Who needs a quickymart….. I doooooo
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Darnell20702 days ago
-13
Fuckin snitches. I'm starting to genuinely hate the BBC and I'm not even British.
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Madbrad2001 day ago
-3
honestly pretty cringe from the bbc. Young lad selling weed, good lord
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Sky-Reporter2 days ago
-16
Yeah this is absolutely nothing new, London taking a leaf out of NYC’s book
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CaptainFatbelly2 days ago
+20
Didn't realise London was a West Midlands town, which is where the high streets in the story were located if you'd read the article.
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euzie2 days ago
+5
"alright mayte yow gorreny spice?"
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Zen12 days ago
Disgusting, can you let me know which stores this is happening at so I can avoid them?
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Sky-Reporter2 days ago
-5
Yeah I didn’t read the article, this has been a thing in London for a while though. I’d imagine it’d spread. It’s just funny to see BBC “exposé” reporting on a super common thing
-5
Miserable-Goal-46272 days ago
+3
Nyc is so insane, you can literally buy weed at the laundrymat now
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CBDlyfe1 day ago
-5
BBC are bunch of snitches
-5
GuessAsleep95781 day ago
-2
omw
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well-informedcitizen1 day ago
-4
Imagine bragging so hard about being a snitch
Oh sorry it's the UK. A grass
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