{"id":25201,"date":"2014-04-17T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25201"},"modified":"2014-04-17T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:34:48","slug":"online-illegal-drug-sales-persist-because-theyre-safer-than-other-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/17\/online-illegal-drug-sales-persist-because-theyre-safer-than-other-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Online illegal drug sales persist because they’re safer than other channels"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Adam Smith Institute<\/em> blog, Daniel Pryor<\/a> discusses the reasons for “Silk Road” continuing despite police crackdowns:<\/p>\n

Growing up in Essex has made me appreciate why purchasing illegal drugs online is a far more attractive option. I have experienced the catastrophic effects of drug prohibition first-hand, and it is part of the reason that the issue means a great deal to me. Friends and acquaintances have had terrible experiences due to contamination from unscrupulous dealers with little incentive to raise their drugs\u2019 quality, and every reason to lace their products with harmful additives. The violence associated with buying and selling drugs in person has affected the lives of people close to me.<\/p>\n

As a current university student, I now live in an environment populated by many people who use Silk Road regularly, and for a variety of purchases. From prescription-only \u2018study drugs\u2019 like modafinil to recreational marijuana and cocaine, fellow students\u2019 experiences with drugs ordered from Silk Road have reinforced my beliefs in the benefits of legalisation. They have no need to worry about aggressive dealers and are more likely to receive safer drugs: meaning chances of an overdose and other health risks are substantially reduced.<\/p>\n

Their motivations for using Silk Road rather than street dealers correlate with the Global Drug Survey\u2019s findings. Over 60% of participants cited the quality of Silk Road\u2019s drugs as being a reason for ordering, whilst a significant proportion also used the site as a way to avoid the potential violence of purchasing from the street. Given that payments are made in the highly volatile Bitcoin, it was also surprising to learn that lower prices were a motivation for more than a third of respondents. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Adam Smith Institute blog, Daniel Pryor discusses the reasons for “Silk Road” continuing despite police crackdowns: Growing up in Essex has made me appreciate why purchasing illegal drugs online is a far more attractive option. I have experienced the catastrophic effects of drug prohibition first-hand, and it is part of the reason that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10],"tags":[899,119,58,199,417],"class_list":["post-25201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","category-liberty","tag-bitcoin","tag-drugs","tag-internet","tag-prohibition","tag-victimlesscrime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6yt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25202,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25201\/revisions\/25202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}