It took me three minutes to drop 180 Xanax, 180 Ambien, 90 Zocor and 160 Soma into my shopping basket and proceed to checkout. Like most of the online pharmacies that bombard e-mail inboxes daily, this one - "the narcotics professionals" - has dollar pricing and appears to be US-based so it will take 12 days for my shipment (in its "discreet packaging") to arrive. But I didn't need a check-up or a prescription. I didn't even need to be over 16.
I shouldn't have been surprised. Investigations carried out under the aegis of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board in Asia and Europe confirm that about 90 per cent of online sales of internationally controlled narcotics and psychotropics take place illicitly, without the required prescription.
