European drugs agency report cites quality of DNMs, increased product purity, reduced violence, increased customer satisfaction

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A pretty rosy report all round!

Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, said: "The illicit market is evolving, and so should our efforts to eliminate it. We should stop the abuse of the internet by those wanting to turn it into a drug market.

Ha! This guy...

This is a nice quote:

Drug trafficking patterns are constantly changing. Identifying patterns of criminal behaviour and matching them to different cyber-hotspots could have important implications for tackling offenders

E.g. track users on Reddit more


Comments


[47 Points] powerman15:

But if theres no street violence than who will we put in our prisons??


[25 Points] Kaptcho:

Yeah well it turns out strict law and criminalization of drug users and traders is the problem, not the drugs themselves. Whoa what a surprise. Thanks society.


[26 Points] douglasman100:

"abuse of the internet".


[17 Points] TessellatedDirect:

Now instead of violence on the streets we have people DDOS'ing each other. An improvement.


[16 Points] None:

A good read on how Portugal has dealt with drugs, to bad we will never have logic like this in the U.S. :-(

http://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening


[8 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Even in their present poor, under-used state most people who buy or sell drugs using "the Silk road model" never look back, its so much better in every way (except maybe waiting for the post)

So why hasn't it taken over? Why is there such a poor choice of marketplaces, vendors, and drugs? Every person working in law enforcement knows about it, but its like they're conspiring to keep it a secret from potential users.

If all dealers and customers moved online, they would hardly make a drug bust. there would be massive competition and choice, and the drug marketplace would be the first truly global elastic free market.


[5 Points] paul232:

As a Greek, that guy has been a tool for the past 20 years


[2 Points] -Macro-:

What is the street violence you people always talk about? The violence is way earlier in the traject. People buying some coke or weed in the streets rarely are the target of violence. Dealers want to sell their gram, not knife a random person.

I don't see how dark markets stop any violence.


[1 Points] imaginaryfallout:

good work everybody !