Investigation reveals dealers are making fortunes by selling their wares online targeting …

Hundreds of drug dealers are using Instagram to peddle potent cannabis to children in a billion-pound industry, a Daily Mail investigation has found.The problem on the Facebook-owned site has mushroomed in lockdown, leading to fears of the drug causing a ‘psychosis timebomb’.A drug baron who bragged about kidnapping and chopping off the fingers of a client is among the dealers using the social media site to earn themselves millions of pounds a year, our undercover reporters found.Dealers, some with almost 30,000 followers, promote their wares with enticing pictures of cannabis packaged as children’s sweets and then arrange sales via private messaging services. Daily Mail investigation finds dealers using Instagram (Pictured) to sell cannabis to children using brightly coloured sweet packets to entice them, and arrange sales via private messaging Dealers using the social media site to earn themselves millions of pounds a year, our undercover reporters found Spaceshack (pictured) advertises a string of cannabis edibles such as Lucky Charms and fruit flavoured gummies marketed with the slogan: ‘Have you ever been to space?’ The ‘Bezzle710’ Instagram page (Pictured) is run by a Leeds-based dealer and openly includes pictures of cannabis flowers, footage of marijuana plants being grown and adverts for…
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