So how do we know that this is not the FBI waiting for people to place orders/post listings so they can arrest them?
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have ratings systems on there to help this - obviously it doesn't mean it's not possible to get stuff that isn't want you think it is, but it's not too much better or worse than trusting a local dealer on the street.
But dead people can't leave negative reviews.
They also can't leave any postive reviews.. Nice way to stay at the bottom of the seller list.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
But your analysis specifically excluded the source of all of this violence, the wholesale procurement of the drugs by the end user dealers. None of that is different with the Silk Road.
That's the locus of the violence. The source of the violence (and of most of the other harms) is the prohibition. Alcohol and tobbacco dealers aren't involved in shootings in the streets - instead we find them in their shops, carefully following laws and doing business peacefully. Nor are their customers suffering from adulterated goods, or committing robberies to afford black-market prices.
During the prohibition this was a bit different.
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#224I have a sneaking suspicion that it's a honeypot. Just a hunch.
The Silk Road seizure demonstrated that the only reasonable way to participate in any online drug market is to assume the market itself is compromised and untrustworthy. That means you never upload identifying information in cleartext (e.g., buyers encrypt their addresses with the seller's public key), and you run all bitcoins sent to or received from such a site through a third-party mixer. Of course, there still ha…
Is it really illegal to try to buy drugs? Doesn't an actual illegal substance need to be involved/seized for it to be a crime? Honeypot sellers don't really make sense to me.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
That seems like it wouldn't be cost effective for them if there is even a small amount of anonymity between the buyers and cultivators. I mean, cartels have been pumped up to pretty ridiculous heights by the war on drugs but it's not at the point where it would be realistic to have them say "here is a list of a few hundred usernames from SilkRoad spread out all over North America. Find them and murder them all." Even…
>> it's not at the point where it would be realistic to have them say "here is a list of a few hundred usernames from SilkRoad spread out all over North America. Find them and murder them all." This is not exact, unfortunately, because it depends also on some other factors. If the drug lords decide that they want to impose the fact that they don't accept opposition, they are actually going to do exactly that. They've…
"They've done it already for several bloggers" as in people that blog about drugs? Could you elaborate?
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#226The sudden rise of terribly programmed, horribly insecure marketplaces as hidden services since SR went down has been absolutely fascinating.
I don't know where you got this from. Silk Road wasn't busted because of anything in the sites code-base.
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#227Yesterday my cousin was found dead. He had committed suicide. It was the end of a long battle he had been waging against himself. Drugs have destroyed this small part of my family, but i'm really glad to see something like the silk road revitalized. I think the sooner we realize how fleeting a battle it is to fight them, the sooner we can place the money where it belongs. My cousin is dead now, but I think my tax mon…
Sorry for your loss. I think a system like Portugal [citation needed] would go a long way. Treat drug addicts like patients rather than criminals.
May I ask what drugs he was battling with?
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#228Re: Silk Road 2.0 Launches
#229Yesterday my cousin was found dead. He had committed suicide. It was the end of a long battle he had been waging against himself. Drugs have destroyed this small part of my family, but i'm really glad to see something like the silk road revitalized. I think the sooner we realize how fleeting a battle it is to fight them, the sooner we can place the money where it belongs. My cousin is dead now, but I think my tax mon…
It's tragic that money that could have been spent on social programs like ones I've helped run was instead going to ridiculous and ineffective tactics. Sorry for your loss.
Humble brag. Not that I disagree with you.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never used any psychedelic, legal or not - a quick Google makes mescaline via cactus sound fairly complicated..
Half-day trip on san pedro in college... good times
try camping in Joshua Tree with a ziplock of peyote buttons and a gallon bottle of cactus juice. I lost my fucking mind there in the desert sand, and then found it two days later, in better condition than when I left it.