Buying Drugs Over Snapchat | High Society

it's been a month you've saved up your dough come to me a hundred percent Peruvians I'm gonna try and order some drugs online how do you guys usually sell the drugs for children in truth you kind of got be like an Instagram influenza A for picture from now on baby anymore so look at the answers and I finds out who's responsible for my daughter's death so I won't stop I can see why people take the law into their own hands as well [Music] drugs have never been more marketed than they are now from glossy business cards raffles fluorescent branded pills and websites with menus drug dealing has come a long way from a bloke saying weed cocaine MDMA on a street corner now it's all about snapchat Instagram since this industry exploded onto social media drug dealers have brazenly used public accounts on snapchat and Instagram to shock their wares anyone can do it you can see I can account the most recent European drug report refer to this as an uber ization of the drug market with it now being easier to order a gram of gak than a pizza but with this ease of access and glossy marketing has come a dark outcome a sharp up taking drug use in children as young as 10 genetically wild has been hit by a wave of high-profile deaths of children who have taken Class A drugs such as X and many have been found to have bought those drugs on Instagram and snapchat so I searched the apps to see how easy it is to buy drugs so I'm gonna try and order some drugs online and to do this I'm gonna set up my own Instagram account and snapchat account and I'm gonna see if I can add dealers on it and basically pick up so I chosen some quite young looking pictures and the mass was quite recent and I've tried to put quite childish captions beneath screams Youth I'm gonna see if they ask me how old I am or care how are they armed and I'm also gonna try and see how quickly it is to get a response from them I might type an ecstasy and see what comes up oh my god okay so there's MasterCard pills mushrooms acids MDMA pills Trump pills there's also some supreme pills here this guy's shot in crystal meth Oh God isn't that very appetizing I found this account which is the hundred and four dealers they're using snapchat that you can contact if you just type in their name so it's basically a drug dealers directory and snapchat is a predominantly under 18 market so it's kind of unsurprising that a lot of kids come across drugs on snapchat because they literally use it all the time I've just got a message from someone called plug lie he could just goes hi hey how are you Oh awesome how they are oh god hopping off he wants to post it and I guess in a way that kind of makes it less intimidating for kids to buy drugs all I need is an address and a snapchat account okay I hope we are to proceed immediately he's a bit a key I don't want to order off this guy I got a message from this guy being like yo what's your order and and where are you located and I said hey I'm in London is that okay and he goes yeah what's your order and what's your address for drop-off that literally took me five minutes and I could already be going to pick up some drugs with buying drugs on social media being so fast and simple I wondered whether the platforms had also made it easier to operate as a dealer in the first place so I organized to meet a young dealer who had recently got into selling cocaine and weed or social media how did you first get into it all my friends are doing it on it so it's got a little bit of store fun and from I really got an account without my name on it obviously you know you'd so if it was messaged me not snapchat or Instagram I've been doing it for years and I've never been a rush to anything wrong do you think that's a bit risky because it's kind of just out there for everyone to see I know the risks but if you want money then you've got a doing you know from life having can be easy does it what percentage of your customers come through social media good knowledge some release wow that's quite a lot I'm pulling more manual on social media now so tell me the process how it works when I wake up in the morning they're born my store forever and then for a picture of it on Instagram people like you and stuff to the end me then just remember the others forever the one body you know commitment on solid food when you post a pic and it gets loads of likes does it feel kind of like a holiday Peck does it feel good so the picture for know what's wrong if you kind of got be like an Instagram influencers to progress I was just supposed to she's already got big following and people just kidding expands to start out so I don't necessarily use hashtags and stuff it's just more food people Lord can defeat chosen and other people see it but the picture doesn't stay up for long anyway and it stays up for about half a day and I'll take you down anyone consoling are now as you see little kids tall the olds and everything you know setting forth on so much it's easy and anyone can do it you can see it make an account net money he doesn't want to do that social media has clearly made it easier for young people to both become drug dealers and take drugs and since drugs have radically shifted into the digital sphere there has been a slew of deaths among young people I'd heard about the death of a 13 year old girl in Warrington named Ebenezer C overdose at the end of 2018 feeling let down by the police her mother Kerry has since made it her mission to find who was responsible for selling drugs to her child on the 1st of December something just made me get up out of bed and just go and check on her walk to a bedroom open the door and she was having a seizure so the ambulance people got in and I just seen their being on the stretcher and the resources Hitler I'm sorry trying to bring the back so like you know trying to get a heart where could I just collapsed collapsed in a hospital and what do you suspect happened well it's been put in a drink we know there it's come back that actually the bottles were laced with MDMA i avid that there's a quite a lotta teenagers like young say 13 14 onwards that are taken list of what it is around Liverpool areas where there has been quite a few deaf people coming forward saying to me that there are people that use an instrument snaps had snapchat to sell drugs and maybe evany got er drugs from there we put a rest in peace ebony page of data page on Instagram which is run by three of her friends avenues close friends it basically says anybody please give out any information and it will remain anonymous and we have had plenty of information quite a few of the text message say you know this drugs come from again because happy days the police need to law heard that I've had no response off the police the police haven't visited me once and my cell phone the neighbors we've been doing our own investigations this is a conversation that I answer with one of the police officers I'm sorry that's yeah these people need investigation but I haven't got the means and the resources to be doing that that's the police's job Kerry has received a series of anonymous tip-offs that evany may have been sold drugs by a snapchat gang known as happy days who apparently operate outside a toddler's soft play center of that name I went to help carry flyer that I've got a flyer here basically it's asking for anybody with any information about the death I've been putting all these posters off around this area until I got the answers and I found out who's responsible for your daughter's death so I won't stop I do what I can see why people take the law into their own hands as well definitely so this is now happy they use the bills and we're approaching happy these is a soft play area where kids go but often ice when the bills and shops are it's been known that like few gangs and hands of hang around Z and sell the drugs to kids they call themselves the Happy Days crew and how did you find that out it was kids on the Internet telling me they think that everything is drug corn from here happy days does have a part of Instagram and selling drugs and ogres production and do you think social media sites need to be held accountable I don't think there's a lot we can do about that to be honest unless some DS stands up and reports them for doing it and these parents just to be a little bit more aware and talk to the kids about drugs I know we all do as parents I did to my kids kids need to be told stay away from that stuff you don't know what you getting in you are playing Russian roulette working life if there is anything going on with social media just stay away from it so what's your end goal for there I just want to find out who's responsible for Ebony's death want them held accountable I'm gonna meet a couple of teenage drug dealers the kind of drug deal is that everything her friends might have been buying drugs off they sell on Instagram and snapchat and I want to find out how they think social media has changed the game of drug dealing so what are you guys selling tonight wasn't that okay yeah and you've been doing that for how long and how old are the people usually that what's the kind of age range that's true because it's expensive is it cuz MD most cheap the kids like that tournament really program wow that's cheap who's that ringing is that your dealer thing how do you guys usually sell your dog's time hopefully Instagram this one either just - or - yeah a lot of mana we put on - not charge a lot more people coming to see a lot more mana you healthy how much forget about funnest things and stuff say over at the parks and stuff - sure you don't leave nothing then you get more cluster or donate so come on - yeah do you think that kids are subjected to drugs more now I've seen kissed and about five years old enough he's like my really young ladies and why why easier to someone that you wish to go off honest truth if she fancied a we don't need the other one that attorney texts for we don't touch the upstanding answer so they're the ones that convinced yourselves I'm gonna work force we didn't we don't try and didn't tales or something if the attack starts from that or he puts in his story or something and another officer and then they show you next on then their friends come change that mean so they can you trust right so that's a way that they find that so it's more people telling each other what an opponent sure choice to get the kicks at the end of the day people who thought I made the money from way so cheesy bucks would be have you guys heard of young people around this area dying from taking drugs what's another teenager 1615 yeah and have you heard of the stories of young people dying from buying off snapchat and Instagram and again what would they ask him for these are just two of many kids who have gotten into drug dealing in this area and despite knowing the potential fatal consequences they seem quite unconcerned about selling to minors this explosion of drug dealing onto social media and it's repercussions and now being debated in the halls of government drug NGO vault files recently published a study that documents the tech savvy ways the industry has been revolutionized our polling data identified that it's Facebook snapchat and Instagram where drugs are most commonly seing social media is the ideal platform for drug dealers so they can adopt similar marketing techniques that legitimate businesses would use do bundles they can do giveaways we found that one in four young people see drug adverts on social media which I thought was astonishingly high we found that most of what they see is cannabis but actually cocaine MDMA xanax nitrous oxide also quite high up I think we should note that NHS data has shown that class a drug use amongst 11 to 15 year olds is increasing do the police force have resources to go through social media and look for drug dealers from what I can see no they don't they don't even have the resources to be dealing with more traditional methods of dealing where it and on the street when I went through your report and there was a text of different emojis that you thought that drug dealers would use when they're online do you think the police force don't know about that kind of thing yeah and something that we recommend in our report is that there should be a regulatory obligation for social media platforms to monitor their sites be aware of what would be examples of the sort of emojis and language that dealers are using and we make the case that they should be passing that information on to the police would you say that social media has made it easier for people to become drug dealers and I think absolutely has actually what social media is doing is its advertising to mainly young people how easy it is become a drug dealer we're really worried by that like every other business drug dealing has evolved in conjunction with technology using modern tools of marketing and finding a new audience when that new audience involves minors we're in a terrifying new world where kids are taking substances and their bodies can't handle which is made worse by the fact that they don't have any education on drugs and how much is too much should social media Giants be forced to shut down every account that selling drugs or should the authorities work closer with these companies to better regulate this digital Wild West what's certain is that spreading harm reduction education especially at a young age will help prevent these endless deaths of young people [Music] you

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Id: 1Ki7d_R-t60

Length: 15min 59sec (959 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 05 2020