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07/21/2005: "Want Pot? Go Online"
A quick Google search of the Internet will yield hundreds of websites offering marijuana and related paraphernalia for sale, Knight-Ridder reported July 6.
Drug users "can obtain whatever they want (online) with more ease than in the conventional illicit street market," according to International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). That includes everything from bongs and seeds to growing instructions to marijuana itself.
The INCB and the European Union urged governments to crack down on online drug sales, but experts say that's easier said than done. Officials from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) estimate that there are up to 400 varieties of marijuana seeds alone for sale on the Internet. "Despite the federal government's efforts [in the U.S.], seeds pour in," NORMAL chief Alan St. Pierre said, adding that the small size and lack of odor make the seeds hard to detect in the mail. "It's very unlikely that they will be intercepted," he said.