Silk Road bust: good or bad?

[dholliday]

EDIT: votes aren't public, by the way...
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I haven't seen a thread on this here (or did I miss it?).

Silk Road was the website where you could order recreational drugs from sellers under a ratings system similar to Ebay. According to those who used it, it offered a much safer, reliable and convenient way to source your psychedelic or stimulant pleasures. According to the law, it was illegal and endangered unwitting public.

It's now been shut down by the law, presumably because it was much easier to shut down than actually make dents in the street drug trade.

4 Brits have been arrested so far.


What say you? Personally, I'm partial to the odd bit of psychedelia, and believe those kinds of things should be legalised, controlled and sold by licenced dealers. As a user you should probably be licenced yourself before you're allowed to buy (age restriction, passing a psychological evaluation etc).

Addictive stimulants (your uppers 'n downers) is another matter, perhaps a decriminalisation in the first instance while we figure out how best to control usage.


Let us know what you think!

 

[Pat's Van]

pork and beef snorkers for me old chum !!!

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Untested & unlicenced drugs, able to be ordered by a teenager sat in their bedroom & delivered to their house, simply can't be right.

 

[Roztitute]

Drugs to your door, what could be better?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Personally I think it's rather hypocritical that the government preaches about various drugs whilst coining in tax revenue from the damage tobacco and alcohol does to people. They need to be consistent in their approach, which means either banning it all, or legalising it all. I'm kinda in favour of the latter.

 

[dholliday]

Untested & unlicenced drugs, able to be ordered by a teenager sat in their bedroom & delivered to their house, simply can't be right.

That sounds like the kind of scare story The Daily Mail would love to report on (think of the children!).

You could only trade on Sillk Road using Bitcoins...and to use Bitcoins you had to be pretty switched on. So not many dozy irresponsible teenagers were using the site.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Personally I think it's rather hypocritical that the government preaches about various drugs whilst coining in tax revenue from the damage tobacco and alcohol does to people. They need to be consistent in their approach, which means either banning it all, or legalising it all. I'm kinda in favour of the latter.

I think the broader issue of legalising of drugs per se, is a different debate tbh. There's a strong case in favour of controlled decriminalisation imo.

However, until that issue is broached then these 'legal high' net sites need to be closed imo, as there's no control whatsoever over what chemicals are being combined & dished out. The fact that they're on the net & accessible gives them credibility & might make it more likely for kids to use drugs that they would never get or even think about seeking, off the street.

 

[Phenom]

That sounds like the kind of scare story The Daily Mail would love to report on (think of the children!).

You could only trade on Sillk Road using Bitcoins...and to use Bitcoins you had to be pretty switched on. So not many dozy irresponsible teenagers were using the site.

Would it be ok for the switched on teenagers to be ordering drugs?

 

[Brennan]

I think the broader issue of legalising of drugs per se, is a different debate tbh. There's a strong case in favour of controlled decriminalisation imo.

However, until that issue is broached then these 'legal high' net sites need to be closed imo, as there's no control whatsoever over what chemicals are being combined & dished out. The fact that they're on the net & accessible gives them credibility & might make it more likely for kids to use drugs that they would never get or even think about seeking, off the street.

Silk Road wasn't a 'legal high' site, it was a site which mainly sold illegal drugs such as cocaine, MDMA, and weed. It was shown that the drugs available from the site were much safer and of pure quality than that found on the streets.

It had to be shut down because it was illegal, but the result is simply that a lot of drug users will be giving their money to guys on the street who often sell a more dangerous product.

 

[Del]

Why have I never heard of this site until now

Livid

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Silk Road wasn't a 'legal high' site, it was a site which mainly sold illegal drugs such as cocaine, MDMA, and weed. It was shown that the drugs available from the site were much safer and of pure quality than that found on the streets.

It had to be shut down because it was illegal, but the result is simply that a lot of drug users will be giving their money to guys on the street who often sell a more dangerous product.

Oh Ok, I didn't know that, so it obviously had to be shut down then.

 

[Bungle]

Why have I never heard of this site until now

Livid

This is pretty much the only thing that went through my mind when I heard it on the radio the other day.

 

[malfosse]

I mis-read the title and thought this thread was about Marco Polo.

 

[carlos21]

drugs are bad anyway.

 

[malfosse]

Think of Zammo and just say no.