“The FBI admitted that Silk Road vendors provided high quality drugs. And the prices were far below the street. Based on advanced Internet technologies, it was able to create a protected market that kept money out of the hands of violent street gangs and international criminal syndicates. It also protected buyers (lots of US citizens) from the poisons that adulterate street drugs. If it had grown large enough, Silk Road, or a collection of similar online services, would have begun to seriously challenge the revenues of local and international mobsters on a scale that the war on drugs has consistently failed to do.”
http://www.zdnet.com/silk-road-and-the-potential-to-disrupt-a-truly-evil-industry-7000021498/
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