Drug dealers will get three to five years for peddling GHB via the Web.

Two Arkansas brothers have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges after being arrested for selling date rape kits online, according to the Newsbytes, a technology news service.

Brian and Kenneth Suggs told a superior court judge in Trenton, New Jersey, that from March 1999 to January 2000, they used the Internet to sell the kits, which consisted of the ingredients and instructions to make gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB).

GHB, commonly used as a date rape drug, can render those who ingest it unconscious. The drug is tasteless and odorless and is often slipped into an unsuspecting woman's drink so that a man can have non-consensual sex with her. Later, victims often have no memory of the encounter.

The Suggs brothers first sold the kits from Mississippi and then moved their business to Charleston, South Carolina, where they were eventually arrested. Authorities estimate that the brothers made approximately $200,000 fro the venture.

"We look at these guys as high tech drug dealers," Andrew Butchko, New Jersey deputy attorney general, told Newsbytes. "Instead of sitting on street corners, they're setting up websites to hawk their wares."

The brothers will be sentenced on March 23, 2001 and will serve between three and five years, according to their plea agreement.