‘Dealers’ peddling drugs on Craigslist

BRAZEN city drug dealers are peddling cannabis online, the Tele can reveal.

A search on the Dundee section of Craigslist — an American-based classified advertisements website — found a user offering bulks of ‘medical weed’ and cannabis starting at £19.

The page is open for anyone to view and those posting adverts had made no effort to disguise what was on offer.

A pusher using a pseudonym laden with cannabis slang openly touted the drug to be distributed throughout Dundee.

On the page’s profile, an image shows two huge bags of what it is claimed is cannabis. It is unclear whether the offering for the Class B drug is genuine or an attempt to scam unwary users.

Councillor Alan Ross, convener of Dundee City Council’s community safety and public protection committee, said the situation was “quite scary”, adding: “It’s important to stress we don’t know how many people are using this site to receive cannabis, hopefully none. “We also don’t know how genuine the offers are but I will be having a general meeting with police today and I will certainly be bringing this up to see if we can establish if this is a problem in Dundee.

“It’s really quite a brazen thing to do, to sell illegal drugs online.”

David Liddell, CEO of the Scottish Drugs Forum, said the online sale of drugs is a relatively recent development.

He said: “Of course both the supply and the possession of cannabis is illegal and people should be aware that the route of supply — via the internet for example — makes no difference in terms of legality.

“Other considerations are that you are inviting people to deliver drugs to your home and so this is different from a semi-anonymous street encounter.”

A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: “Police Scotland continues to warn of the dangers of buying any medication or substances on the street or over the internet, as the contents are unknown and there is potential for serious health implications.”

Pictures of supplies on Craigslist can be openly viewed under titles such as “Coke and Weed” with one advert claiming “very high percentage Charlie”.

Craigslist was approached for comment by the Tele but did not respond to our request.

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