A tent-dwelling drug dealer who offered LSD for sale on Facebook, under his own name, claimed the hallucinogenic drug could “stop retardation”.
James Daniel McRobbie, 45, of Queenstown, was among more than a dozen people arrested after a police investigation into a French-themed Facebook drug-dealing page.
Although most people offering drugs on the page used bogus profile names, McRobbie used his own profile to offer to supply LSD and cannabis on multiple occasions in September and October last year.
He used drug slang such as “Lucy” for LSD and “Marie” or “Mary” for cannabis, and in the case of the latter drug, specified whether the plants had been grown indoors or outside.
One post claimed: “Studies show that Lucy increases neuroplasticity — stop retardation now and get some”.