Yeah, but a large amount of the stuff they did want to purchase was still drugs.

You can't be a victim when you were still in the process of doing something stupid, trusting someone in a shady industry, and then consuming something you didn't know enough about.

The "they are lacing tampons and regular items with it!" scare tactic is just trying to obfuscate that fact, because that's just evil for the sake of evil because it has no purpose but to kill people.