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[Brakke]

Criminals specialize too. Silk Road and similar drug bazaars weren't selling hitmen services. In fact the original SIlk Road used to sell guns but the owner had second thoughts about that and eventually banned their sales so someone else created "The Armory" to make up for the bannings.

His point about selling drugs through online being safer is correct since you don't have to deal with face to face encounters anymore.

What I don't agree with is that the government shouldn't shut these businesses down. Drugs are still pretty harmful depending on their addiction potential.

Also the end customer may be getting it in a "nonviolent way", doesn't mean a dozen people didn't get murdered in Mexico to get the drugs onto the market in the first place...

 

[livestOne]

So, slightly OT, i've always wondered, is the quality better or worse than what you could get from a dealer off the street? I imagine fewer hands being traded between equals higher quality goods, but then again it's still the internet.

the allure is you don't have to buy from some shady guy in a dark alleyway

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

So, slightly OT, i've always wondered, is the quality better or worse than what you could get from a dealer off the street? I imagine fewer hands being traded between equals higher quality goods, but then again it's still the internet.

From what I've heard, it's marginally better in some cases, but much more expensive in all cases. The dealers ("vendors") seem to be low- to mid-level with marginal connections.

 

[Wuthering_Heights]

Shut down one, two pop up.

They've accomplished very little, sadly.

 

[KrellRell]

So, slightly OT, i've always wondered, is the quality better or worse than what you could get from a dealer off the street? I imagine fewer hands being traded between equals higher quality goods, but then again it's still the internet.

Should be the same. The drugs are made once, then sold multiple times down the line, they aren't changing them as they go.

 

[Fusebox]

So, slightly OT, i've always wondered, is the quality better or worse than what you could get from a dealer off the street? I imagine fewer hands being traded between equals higher quality goods, but then again it's still the internet.

Depends where you live, the wide selection of quality pot strains available on Silk Road was luxury for us Aussies who aren't used to having a lot of choice but it wasn't cheap.

On the other hand if you live in British Columbia you probably wouldn't be as impressed.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Not surprising all these sites that quickly spawned up afterwards, were made by idiots just trying to get in quickly to retake the name.

 

[DJKhaled]

Silk Road was luxury for us Aussies who aren't used to having a lot of choice but it wasn't cheap.

using silk road in 2014 is odd anyway, better sites around.

 

[ChainedMaster]

http://www.businessinsider.com/theres-already-a-silk-road-30-2014-11

 

[enzo_gt]

Silk Road 10 is next, right?