How the internet became the ‘cookbook’ of the drug trade

On a warm night three summers ago, Kai Raydon, a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, opened a package of orange-white powder that he had purchased through an encrypted site on the dark web.

He had ordered quaaludes, an illegal sedative, but wasn’t taking chances. He placed a sample on a fentanyl test strip: negative.

Raydon weighed out a gram using a digital scale that sat on the coffee table in his room at his fraternity. Grateful Dead posters decorated the walls. Delilah, his rat terrier, sat with him on the couch. With a rolled-up $50 peso bill, he inhaled the gram.

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