2 Japanese Men Arrested for Selling Drugs over Mixi Social Network

When people talk about the legalization of drugs it’s usually followed by a rumination of the idea of ‘drug stores’ like beer stores.  What’s less obvious is what would happen online if it was all legal.  Even when it’s illegal, people still use the web to sell drugs, and recently two men in Japan were caught using mixi — the most popular social network in Japan — to sell stimulants.

As reported in the Mainichi Daily News, the two men were found to have been selling stimulants to people all across Japan by using their own Mixi group called “Ganso! Shabu Commu” which translates to Real Stimulant Community.

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