In a world where drugs were completely legal, Liam Reynolds and his undergraduate mates would be hailed as over-achievers. While others on the International Business degree at Leeds Beckett University were spending their downtime learning the best number-of-pints-to-tactical-chunder ratio, Reynolds et al. were putting theory into practice by running a successful drug ring. After attending daytime lectures in modules such as Digital Marketing and Supply Chain Management, they ran their business from a student house in Leeds where four of them lived. They made payments for ecstasy, LSD, and cannabis by accessing the now defunct Silk Road, using the anonymous digital currency Bitcoin. The drug packages arrived in the post and all they had to do was dish them out. Unfortunately for Reynolds and his team of entrepreneurs, the police soon caught wind of their mini-Medellin operation. An investigation found "a very sophisticated and highly organized criminal enterprise that for a sustained period of time imported substantial quantities of controlled drugs into the UK and supplied them in the city's student community."
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I don't like the sensationalist comparison these types of articles make. Pablo Escobar of student drug ring? Give me a break. Pablo Escobar & the like move fucking tons of drugs and deal with billions of dollars. They run a true crime enterprise where police gets bribed, smugglers run across borders, and people unfortunate enough to get caught in the crossfire lose their lives. These are the guys that use FUCKING SUBMARINES to transport drugs; apparently a college kid with a laptop is in the same league.