These youngsters, I tells ya. In my day we got our drugs from MySpace, and when you weren't sure about the product, you asked your dealer Jeeves.
Winnipeg's drug scene is using secret group conversations via Facebook's Messenger app to score everything from potentially lethal fentanyl to crack cocaine, CBC News has learned.
"It's all there, hiding in plain sight," said one participant CBC News agreed not to identify. "Deals are being made day and night, all over the city."
CBC News took an inside look into two group Messenger conversations titled "Wpg drug mart" and "ChOp ShOp."
They're accessible by invitation only and only through a Facebook account. But once inside, members enter an online marketplace where they post messages to buy and sell whatever drugs they can get.
Its deadly reputation is no deterrent and its lethal strength is billed as a selling point, including in this message: "fentanyl Powder really potent just got the pure package today! HMU (hit me up) for your needs."
There were also messages for morphine: "200 mgs morph (morphine)," xanax, "green bars, text or hmu," ecstasy and marijuana, "Mollys, kush, hmu for deals.....delivery city wide."
In May 2016, Colorado authorities, with co-operation from Facebook, shut down a similar group conversation called "Fly Society 420." In that case, members were mostly high school students, buying and selling hard-core drugs like LSD.
In February 2015, Facebook shut down an Australian group called "Adelaide street pharmacists."
A Facebook spokesman told CBC News the social networking site investigates any reports of illegal activity. Cont.
Story from - CBC News
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