@BZcheap – please do not take this as a slur or criticism on your business but I feel on a forum we have a duty to fully explain the unique risks that face UK users who may wish to purchase or consume BZP. Our authorities are looking at ways to outlaw this substance and are already making “pre-emptive strikes” using current legislation.
Customs authorities here answer first to Westminster before Brussels (the term “Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs” might be a bit of a giveaway!) People in these sorts of authority positions are fairly nationalistic and sceptical/cynical anyway (why become a customs officer otherwise?).
In simple terms, this means that the Schengen agreement doesn’t mean shit if British authorities decide so. HMRC have the power, and can inspect whatever packages come to our shores as they please irrespective of what their country of origin is.
There are also other potential problems with a “discreet package of white powder” going through postal/courier systems in a country engaged in two bitter Middle Eastern conflicts which have led to terrorist attacks on the UK as a reprisal!
BZP is in a legal grey area so its possible the authorities won’t take action against the seller, but its a simple matter for HMRC to seize the package “on suspicion” claiming could be anything (including dangerous chemicals) just as a “disruptive tactic”.
The seller makes their sale but the buyer loses their money and receives nothing other than knowing their home address is on a govt database as “potentially involved with crime”
Even if they let the package go they can discreetly pass the address details to the local Police with an email that “people at this address are known to attempt to purchase drugs over the internet, and may be involved in other drug-related activity in the local area”.
If you are caught with a bag of BZP powder on the streets cops would arrest you anyway on “suspicion of posession class A/B” (they often initially try to bust people for coke rather than amfet). You may be offered a Formal Caution but either way you will still often go to the cells for around 2-6 hours and often be bailed again (and if its at a party maybe have to attend a Police station in an area at your own expense miles away from where you live).
For the street user there is no such thing as a “legal high” (other than a rare occasion where someone is legally prescribed a drug with recreational potential and has the script on them or can provide details of their prescribing doctor!) – a copper can otherwise claim they “aren’t a scientist” and demand the substances are seized and tested.
Plus there are still health risks and comedowns associated with BZP so when you weigh up the potential risks and rewards they might as well have got illegal drugs anyway.
For the sterling equivalent of €20 most people in Britain who want amfetamine-type stimulants can obtain enough real amfetamines for a good weekend.
