Indian Food Delivery Agents Forced To Sell Weed To Survive Lockdown Hardship

As India entered its massive lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, all kinds of services and industries faced a hard time for their businesses. One of them is the weed business, and they cannot exactly ask for help as what they do is still illegal.

And when the police is all over the streets, drug dealers have to be on high alert to avoid being caught. These people have come up with a bunch of ways to duck the authority, but the most ingenious way is arguably shaking hands with food delivery agents, whose service is classified as essential.

In April, Interpol issued a warning to all of its member nations saying that drug dealers are pretending to be food delivery agents to ship all kinds of illegal substances, including ketamine, cocaine, cannabis, and ecstasy in Malaysia and Germany. Now, it seems like this way of dealing drug has come to India.

On the 14^th of April, two guys working in food delivery in Bengaluru were caught for delivering marijuana. On May 3, a day before the lockdown order was eased, a young Chennai-based food delivery executive was booked for selling weed.

What sets these cases in India apart is that those who have been caught are not drug dealers posing as food delivery executives. They were honest employees of the food industry who had to pick up this shady business when restaurants took a big hit as the country entered the lengthy lockdown.

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