You can buy anything online nowadays. Kiwi drug-users are trading in street dealers for the click of a button, spending big through online black markets, Stuff reports.
The surge in online drug purchases are also bringing new synthetic drugs into the country, often in small to-order quantities through the mail.
"It's a bit like going to [online retailer] Fishpond and getting a book," Customs investigations manager Shane Panettiere told Stuff.The drugs were being imported from everywhere – from the United States to Hungary – and were predominantly synthetic, including synthetic cannabis powder.