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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Silk Road Reduced Violence in the Drug Trade, Study Argues 🌿Silk Road Reduced Violence in the Drug Trade, Study Argues
THE DARK WEB may have a silver lining, according to a pair of academics: A new class of geekier, less violent drug dealers.
A law professor and a professor of criminal science argue, in a paper released online, that by reducing physical contact between drug dealers—particularly between dealers and their suppliers—the Silk Road’s bustling Web-based narcotics trade may have prevented bloodshed that would have occurred in the street-level illegal drug market.
The Silk Road, after all, became a bustling online drug bazaar by giving users a new way to deal in contraband anonymously. On the site and dozens of copycats that followed its takedown by law enforcement in October, users’ physical locations were obscured by tools like bitcoin and the anonymity software Tor. Those crypto protections are designed to prevent anyone–including cops and competitors–from knowing where users are. According to University of Lausanne criminologist David Decary-Hetu and University of Manchester law professor...
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