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by olegkikin 3257 days ago
How does that reduce the violence? Now the buyers have to go to the streets to get their drugs.

Prohibition doesn't work. It creates much more violence than it solves.

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I agree that prohibition doesn't work, but the police needs to do their bit as well. And if a darknet marketplace is taken offline, I don't think its users will have to go on the streets, there are many other marketplaces out there; just in the same way as when a street dealer is arrested, people will just end using a different one.

It seems that you are actually agains policing it, which is not the way forward, as there is a large amount of the population which is against drugs, and their needs need to be accounted for by the Government. So by catering for both parties (users/dealers and police), the darknet is a viable solution that helps everybody in the end (efficient purchase, efficient policing, less violence, less waste).