Silk road closed

[Milford Cubicle]

In all fairness though, is an online drug marketplace such a bad thing? After all that's what it evolved into. People have been using drugs and will continue to do so. SR gave credibility to dealers who strive to offer a high quality service both in the way the transaction is handled and the quality of merchandise. The complaint does mention that the quality of goods sold on SR was very high. This is much better in my opinion than people buying their stuff from nasty people in dark alleys and not having any certainty of what they are actually getting.

There are still plenty of places on the dark web that will cater to needs of drug users but they do not offer the credibility that SR vendors did. Personally I've never purchased anything on SR since I'd consider it unsafe (apparently, this is incorrect) but I find the fact that such a place existed very interesting.

I think it will be very interesting to watch what happens to the numbers of incidents, both health problems and deaths, that come from cut drugs. SR was a very good harm reduction tool providing rather clean drugs which helps to stop things like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-24314997 from happening. The traffic through SR was very high and although people will go to other dark web sights none are as good and trusted as SR was and there will certainly be a lull whilst people wait to see what happens with other arrests which will inevitably push things back to street dealing.

Also on that point it will be quite interesting to see how many other people actually get arrested due to SR offences.