before the darkweb you'd use western union/moneygram to buy drugs. they used to have insane deals for benzos from serbia, like 1k valium/xanax/klonopin for $250.
yeah, pressed. and bromazolam, thanks to the Chinese ban (and now bromazolam is going too), but at one point it was possible to get pressies that were basically the same as real Xanax, for that price.
I remember having to come up with a bizarre story about paying my brother-in-law in Kansas for a car because the clerk asked me why I kept coming in and wiring so much cash all the time...