High Street mini-marts selling cocaine, cannabis and prescription drugs, BBC secret filming reveals

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• rah@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 £11+ billion per year through drug prohibition.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The guy in the thumbnail looks like Daniel Ricciardo

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