• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Some drug traffickers use existing brands to “market” themselves.

    Here’s some Afghan heroin seized and destroyed by the international coalition on the Arabian Sea in 2021:

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      6 hours ago

      I was about to say, who would ever brand their cocaine, whether it was actually SpaceX or some random cartel? I would get the “brand identification” argument at the end user stage, but marking your bulk shipment of drugs just seems dumb.

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      11 hours ago

      Any other company and I’d probably go yeah, the dealers did that, but I wholeheartedly believe Tesla has a cocaine manufacturing department.