It definitely raises the bar, and it may very well raise it well out of reach of the average DNM seller, but I think you may be imagining the whole process to be harder than it has to be.
I have everything I’d need to seal ampoules lying around downstairs[1]. It’s a few hundred dollars worth of stuff. More than a bag sealer, but not a fortune. You wouldn’t even have to buy blanks; you could make them from plain tubing. You don’t have to seal them under vacuum. There’s not that much skill involved, either; closing a tube is about as simple as flameworking can get. The biggest learning investment would probably be learning how to handle the torch without unfortunate unintended consequences.
You don’t have to avoid contamination; you just have to clean it off. One nice thing about glass is that you can soak it for as long as you like in a bottle of just about any any noxious fentanyl-eating chemical you can identify. You can wash down the outside of the bottle with the same stuff. I doubt you’d have to resort to any exotic chemicals; one or another of bleach, peroxide, lye, or your favorite mineral acid would probably destroy it pretty rapidly.
It would be a really good idea to have a separate pack-and-ship facility, and an accomplice to run it, but you don’t need to resort to a clean room.
FIngerprints (and stray hairs and the like) would actually be much harder to deal with, although of course they won’t alert dogs.
Hmm, but that has trade-off with not showing up as suspect to X-ray. So maybe a mix of approaches makes it quite expensive to smuggle drugs and thus limit supply/raise price/drop consumption
It definitely raises the bar, and it may very well raise it well out of reach of the average DNM seller, but I think you may be imagining the whole process to be harder than it has to be.
I have everything I’d need to seal ampoules lying around downstairs[1]. It’s a few hundred dollars worth of stuff. More than a bag sealer, but not a fortune. You wouldn’t even have to buy blanks; you could make them from plain tubing. You don’t have to seal them under vacuum. There’s not that much skill involved, either; closing a tube is about as simple as flameworking can get. The biggest learning investment would probably be learning how to handle the torch without unfortunate unintended consequences.
You don’t have to avoid contamination; you just have to clean it off. One nice thing about glass is that you can soak it for as long as you like in a bottle of just about any any noxious fentanyl-eating chemical you can identify. You can wash down the outside of the bottle with the same stuff. I doubt you’d have to resort to any exotic chemicals; one or another of bleach, peroxide, lye, or your favorite mineral acid would probably destroy it pretty rapidly.
It would be a really good idea to have a separate pack-and-ship facility, and an accomplice to run it, but you don’t need to resort to a clean room.
FIngerprints (and stray hairs and the like) would actually be much harder to deal with, although of course they won’t alert dogs.
Doesn’t everybody have basic glassblowing and welding equipment? Kids these days.
Hmm, but that has trade-off with not showing up as suspect to X-ray. So maybe a mix of approaches makes it quite expensive to smuggle drugs and thus limit supply/raise price/drop consumption