I think (I hope) our friend's trouble is limited to the state level. 

My husband has gone down a social media rabbit hole, rewatching the video of the sting (Which has 75K views) and watching other videos in that channel. Whoever the channel owner is, he is working with the police and posting many recordings of other similar operations.

I am more detached. Our friend has made bad choices and now has poor options. Like other situations where I observed addictive behavior, I struggle to understand why he went down that path. Don't do stupid things. Why is that so hard to learn?

That's easy for me to say. My life is littered with the debris of stupid choices. I got lucky. I have no interest in drugs. My career was swept up with the rise of the internet. Change one of those situations just a little and my life is very different.