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Feds: 6 died as a result of overdosing from Silk Road-purchased drugs
- ryan_j_naughton 12y agoIf the government wants to get into the actual harms of online drug sales, then the defense should go into the benefits to society of the Silk Road. Ulbricht and the defense should get people from the Spanish drug testing lab to testify: https://medium.com/backchannel/inside-the-deep-web-drug-lab-9718cd0fe504 https://medium.com/backchannel/inside-the-deep-web-drug-lab-... Their results show that drug quality is much higher from darknet sales and has fewer impurities that cause health risks. Given that the original Silk Road did $1.2 Billion in drug trades, the total number of people who died from their drugs is substantially lower than if those people had bought their drugs from the streets (e.g. if cocaine in Spain is only 30% pure, and the other chemicals raise the probability of overdose by 5% per use compared to purer cocaine, then 5% increase times the expected amount of cocaine sales from the SR should amount to a decent estimate on how many fewer people were actually harmed). Similarly, how many fewer people were robbed or killed due to SR vs traditional gang based drug sales?
- jacquesm 12y agoSometime purity is a health risk.