Are ones and zeros gonna pay for doobies and lines now?
I’m not gonna name names, but someone just mentioned paying for weed with a Square account. It’d be equally easy to use Paypal, Venmo, Bitcoin (RIP) or any of the myriad mobile payment systems that allow you to send money from your phone…
I mean, think about it: As long as you don’t put some idiotic note on your account like “drugs,” virtual currency would be a really easy way for drug dealers to take one very dangerous aspect of trafficking out of the equation—as long as they took some precautions.
So have you ever bought drugs using a mobile payment system? Is this a really tired scheme that a innocent lad like me just hadn’t ever heard of?
That’s what we thought.