Dream Market, the Top Dark Web Marketplace, Will Shut Down Next Month (zdnet.com)

Dream Market, today's top dark web marketplace, today announced plans to shut down on April 30. From a report: The announcement came on the same day Europol, FBI, and DEA officials announced tens of arrests and a massive crackdown on dark web drug trafficking. The timing of the four announcements immediately sent most of Dream Market's users and dark web threat intel analysts into a frenzy of theories that law enforcement might have already seized the site and are now running a honeypot operation. Their fears are based on a similar event from June 2017 when Dutch police took over Hansa Market and ran the site for a month while collecting evidence on the portal's users. Law enforcement later used passwords collected from Hansa Market users to gain access to accounts on other dark web marketplaces.

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Re:the real solution

[anglico]

When I was a UPS Driver in Santa Cruz we would get back to the building with our pick ups and there were San Jose PD drug sniffing dogs going over the conveyor belts. Any hits and they would pull the packages aside and then let the dogs go over them more thoroughly outside.
  The dogs were from the San Jose PD, and I don't know how many centers they would check, or maybe it was just Santa Cruz, but it happened every fall during harvest time. I told my grower friends if they are going to use UPS, make sure to use Next Day Air, those are taken from the truck to the airport shuttle pretty quickly to make flights out, so the dogs never got to sniff those.
  This was back in 2000 though, so things may have changed until it became legal.

Re: I keep wondering why we don't legalize drugs

[ShanghaiBill]

Because the money would got to the wrong people, mostly in South America.

If it was legal, they would no longer be the "wrong" people. They would be law abiding capitalists.

During prohibition, alcohol sales and distribution was control by criminals. Today, brewers and distillers are just normal businesses.

The same can happen with cocaine and heroin.

Re:I keep wondering why we don't legalize drugs

[cayenne8]

1- Name one place it's been tried and didn't turn to shit (as seen in Vancouver)

You might look at Portugal, as that they pretty much legalized/decriminalized all drugs...and they have actually had a positive result.

I"m surprised more countries don't start looking at their model.