Just curious, but if a vendor was offering say a schedule 1 controlled substance but disguising this substance as a legal chemical with effects similar enough to mimic those of the drug advertised (less potent), how would the law handle this scenario should he/she be busted? For instance if this substance is sold legally as a supplement, not a sketchy research chemical, elsewhere, the only thing they would technically have on the vendor might be tax evasion. Even then he/she could set up a legitimate "supplement" company that only accepts Bitcoin and then have the income taxed.
Thoughts?
Why would a vendor on the DNM disguise an illegal substance as a legal one? The point of the DNMs is to sell illegal substances. You can just buy legal substances without the DNMs, so to attract customers you generally have to be selling the illegal substance. Which you means you have to advertise it as such.
If someone were to do this, the vendor would just get fucked anyway. A busted customer/user would say they thought they were buying the legal substance. The law would not look kindly on someone disguising an illegal substance as a legal one