Online med-selling should not be used for drug dealing: columnist


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BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Reporters of Thepaper.cn found that some psychotropic medicines that should only be prescribed by doctors and purchased from hospitals are being sold on e-commerce platforms under fake names such as “second-hand plastic roadblocks”. These medicines which put users into a deep coma lasting four to six hours are addictive, and their sale is proscribed by law. Selling them on the internet is nothing but a new form of illicit drug trafficking that must be cracked down with no mercy. Especially as these kinds of medicines have appeared in a number of cases involving sex...