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Medical patients are NOT the ones using Silk Road to buy pot. You're just demonstrating a level of out of touch that earns the Crypto sphere it's scorn.

jMyles 9y ago
... umm... ...haha, what? Are you serious right now? Obviously this is a difficult thing to study / track / quantify, but you are just absolutely, positively incorrect. It has been a life changing development for several patients whom I know personally. It has also allowed easier access to Charlotte's Web in states other than Colorado. This is not a secret. 30 seconds of googling was all you needed to correct yourself. Or, you know, ask older relatives if their friends have mentioned it. Have you never heard of medibuds? It's not a small thing - this is a big phenomenon in states that don't have medical yet. ..and it's not just cannabis either. People all over the USA and beyond are buying all sorts of medicines this way. I don't mean to sound like a gatekeeper here, but if you are genuinely unaware of this, I don't really understand why you are even jumping into this conversation. Seriously, read up: * http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/11/how-buying-drugs-online-became/3 http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/11/how-buying-drugs-onlin... * https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvqbb/why-i-had-to-buy-my-wifes-inhaler-on-the-dark-web https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvqbb/why-i-had-... * https://alphabaymarket.com/are-prescription-meds-cheaper-on-alphabay-market/ https://alphabaymarket.com/are-prescription-meds-cheaper-on-... The matter is serious enough that mainstream pharma has noticed and is trying now to stifle the competition: * https://safemedsonline.org/2013/11/black-market-site-silk-road-re-emerges/ https://safemedsonline.org/2013/11/black-market-site-silk-ro...
- dmitriid 9y ago
  And as I already said before, this has a much better, more effective solution than blockchain. Proper healthcare system and legalisation of cannabis for example.
  - jMyles 9y ago
    Do you realize how tone-deaf this sounds? Are people seriously supposed to what, wait until all the political misconfiguration of the world is solved to have relief? Darknets and cryptocurrencies are disrupting these prohibitions today. How is this not cause for celebration?
    - s73v3r_ 9y ago
      Because they're not. They're not doing anything that wasn't already been done before.

jMyles 9y ago

... umm... ...haha, what? Are you serious right now? Obviously this is a difficult thing to study / track / quantify, but you are just absolutely, positively incorrect. It has been a life changing development for several patients whom I know personally. It has also allowed easier access to Charlotte's Web in states other than Colorado. This is not a secret. 30 seconds of googling was all you needed to correct yourself. Or, you know, ask older relatives if their friends have mentioned it. Have you never heard of medibuds? It's not a small thing - this is a big phenomenon in states that don't have medical yet. ..and it's not just cannabis either. People all over the USA and beyond are buying all sorts of medicines this way. I don't mean to sound like a gatekeeper here, but if you are genuinely unaware of this, I don't really understand why you are even jumping into this conversation. Seriously, read up: * http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/11/how-buying-drugs-online-became/3 http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/11/how-buying-drugs-onlin... * https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvqbb/why-i-had-to-buy-my-wifes-inhaler-on-the-dark-web https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvqbb/why-i-had-... * https://alphabaymarket.com/are-prescription-meds-cheaper-on-alphabay-market/ https://alphabaymarket.com/are-prescription-meds-cheaper-on-... The matter is serious enough that mainstream pharma has noticed and is trying now to stifle the competition: * https://safemedsonline.org/2013/11/black-market-site-silk-road-re-emerges/ https://safemedsonline.org/2013/11/black-market-site-silk-ro...

dmitriid 9y ago
And as I already said before, this has a much better, more effective solution than blockchain. Proper healthcare system and legalisation of cannabis for example.
- jMyles 9y ago
  Do you realize how tone-deaf this sounds? Are people seriously supposed to what, wait until all the political misconfiguration of the world is solved to have relief? Darknets and cryptocurrencies are disrupting these prohibitions today. How is this not cause for celebration?
  - s73v3r_ 9y ago
    Because they're not. They're not doing anything that wasn't already been done before.