http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ulbricht-allegedly-planned-silk-road-brand/
Correction 1/21/2015 10:55: An earlier version of this story mistated the context of a quote from the journal found on Ross Ulbricht's computer, and quoted the journal as stating he had grown 10 kilos of psychedelic mushrooms when he had in fact grown 10 pounds.
He also reveals he was just learning to grow for SR (FBI finds grow purchases in his amazon at that time) and then overnight he manages to do scale production of mushrooms....um bullshit. Mushroom growing is really labor intensive, monotubs only give out a few ounces dried in total, he would have had to been doing 20-30 tubs over the course of months to produce that, and thats if he didnt fuck up. Thats hundreds of pounds of horseshit that has to be sourced, dried, cut and pasturized, you dont just open up your easy bake oven and away you go. Either he's lied about that (personal journal...meglomaniac?) or spent the better part of a year in rent and supplies eclipsing whatever profit he could have made from it.
growing shrooms isnt that hard imo, people use rice and wheat flour instead of horse shit noadays anyways... once ur done your first 90 day grow cycle you can increase production by 10 fold and so on and so forth for every 90 day grow cycle (as long as you have the space and containers to hold it all)