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>everybody who know how to recognize them will see them popup everywhere.

Just out of curiosity, what are the tells for a drug dealer in Amsterdam? Asking for a friend.

Please do not buy drugs from the street. Ask for a reliable dealer through a Dutch friend. Also either way always send the pills to a test lab if you have the time. They will tell you how much is in there so you know what you are taking and can dose accordingly. The infrastructure for safe usage is there; so use it!

Black (or of African descent), alert, hands in hoodie's pockets, locking gazes, and trying to understand the message in your gaze. Usually everyone's moving except them (except people on their phones), when they move it's back and forth within a short distance.

Before you scream: "Racist!"

I'm black (African, to be precise). I'm describing my experience in several places in Germany (where I live), Prague, and Amsterdam. I trade nods (of acknowledgement) with them and sometimes stop to speak with the Africans who speak my type of pidgin English.

These are just runners. A significant portion of the (Amsterdam) drug trade is handled by the so-called mocro-maffia, a group of predominantly Moroccan-descended criminals. Much of the Dutch production is however commonly in Dutch hands.

Tell your friend to not buy drugs from the street in Amsterdam. Those drugs may not be what you think they are.

One time I was in Amsterdam, a guy approached us and pretty bluntly asked if we need any cocaine. That was pretty telling.

Has happened to me in London a few times as well.

I would not buy drugs on the street in Amsterdam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Amsterdam_drug_deaths

No need to look for them.

I was there just recently and you practically need to push them away. Even when I got an uber back to the hotel the driver tried to sell me weed, some kind of gas canisters with laughing gas or something, and a handful other similar shit.

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