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High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh, never thought to give that a try. Thanks for the tip BBC!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

I like the idea of just pop into the corner shop to get some milk and a spliff. Seems very civilised.

[–] remon@ani.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But I'm sure the new tobacco will be a huge success!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

Apparently few and few people are smoking anyway so it actually might work. But only because everyone has decided that they don't want to smoke not because of anything the government's doing.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

It will be. Only the most determined of imbeciles will begin smoking if they can’t get a regular supply.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The hell is a mini-mart? It's a corner shop, we can stop with the Americanisms thank you.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't even know what a full size mart is.

[–] rah@hilariouschaos.com 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"We can't restore our High Streets unless we take out the cancer of organised crime," says Liam Byrne, chair of the Business and Trade Committee.

But you can't get rid of organised crime while also gifting organised crime a £11+ billion per year industry through drug prohibition.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Here's me settling for cheap tabs when I could've been getting weed and coke

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

The guy in the thumbnail looks like Daniel Ricciardo