(Photo: Levenshulme Facebook group)
A couple of days ago, word spread that a very industrious weed dealer named Jay had been leaving testers of his product stapled to business cards around the Manchester suburb of Fallowfield. There was a little baggy containing enough for a sample spliff, a phone number and a ClipArt picture of a motorbike, implying Jay is both quicker and slicker than his competition.
Residents were shocked: “It’s outrageous – people are just targeting the students,” said one. “Fallowfield has now got an international reputation as the place to party and get your drugs.” Which was maybe reaching a little bit.
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It’s unclear if Jay’s business card was actually real, or if it’s just some fucking joker having a laugh and trying to rile up local Radio Times readers. After all, the vast majority of weed smokers – bar the kinds who can and will tell you the best strain to help you overcome insomnia – don’t have much need for samples; they just buy whatever their guy’s got in.
However, drug dealers handing out business cards is a very real thing. It seems a relatively open invite to police to set up a sting operation, but whatever – I’m sure they’ve got the risks covered somehow. Some cards are as simple as a name and number printed on some paper; some invest in customised lighters; some employ fancy graphic design and weights and prices and all sorts of other completely transparent evidence of intent to supply.
Here, have a look at some of the ones we found on Twitter. (For whatever reason – maybe the vast student population – a lot of them seem to come from Leeds.)
(The tweeter of this one wanted to remain anonymous)
(The tweeter of this one wanted to remain anonymous, too)
(And this one)
(via @ash_tomlinson96)
(Another anonymous one)
(And another)
(via @SmashDaPicnicUp)
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