[namecast]

That depends: do they typically bust the buyers after they've bought real drugs and already used them? It's all fake bags of white powder that never get used, yeah?

For me this sort of hinges on whether actual child pornography was distributed (and then, i imagine, consumed and re-distributed by pedophiles) in the name of making a bust.

[Bartweiss]

I mean, I think some real drugs get sold, but usually its selling stuff from the evidence locker and busting buyers before they can use it. There's no real equivalent to "after the sale, before the harm is done" in a case like this.

[pbhjpbhj]

There's also a difference between compromising pictures of real people and non-identifiable non-human bags of powder. Bags of cocaine don't have dignity that the law should be striving to protect.