Free Ross and free us all plz

Silk Road t-shirt came.

Not trying to be all cryptic hiding face lol, just showing the shirt y'know, here's a regular pic

sup?

You can buy it at "The Bitcoin Store" for $20: https://allthingsdecentral.com/collections/men/products/silk-road-silhouette

And 10% of sales goes towards Ross Ulbricht defense fund.

Ross Ulbricht is a hero and won't be forgotten.

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What the world looks like when drugs are legal:

• Heroin is now sold by CVS, and drug dealers as we know them now will be at an extreme competitive disadvantage. A pharmacy will have access to the best distribution methods and be able to offer a better product at a better price than the guy in his living room. And nobody will want to buy it from random people; they'll go to the store, just like we do now for Advil or tomatoes.

• So "drug dealers" if they exist at all are more of a niche thing, servicing only the few people who for whatever reasons didn't want to or couldn't buy it openly, and in turn they'd be rarer and tougher to find, probably with higher price markups.

• -----> It's now tougher for your kids to get their hands on heroin, because CVS isn't going to sell it to them, and now there's less heroin floating around on the street corner looking for a buyer.

• CVS is going to card you when you buy heroin from them. Similar to how a liquor store isn't going to sell booze to a 12-year-old, a pharmacy won't sell you a very dangerous and addictive thing without following whatever industry standard protocol is believed to minimize the risks. These methods would probably include a limit on how frequently you can buy it and could also include drug testing or require you to consume educational content.

• -----> It's now less likely that someone who wants to experiment with a drug will slip into addiction, because the people selling it to them are doing so in the open and share an interest in that person not being harmed by it.

• Creative solutions and support for people on the cusp of drug addiction can now evolve for the first time, whereas in the current paradigm of illegality you typically don't admit it until you're caught or have hit rock bottom. And so the support mechanisms really only develop to be there for the most hardened cases. And helping the people who are teetering may actually be the most fertile territory to make a difference in terms of when someone is most susceptible to help.

Should people be locked in a cage because they use a drug that you think is bad?

If you're not barbaric, then you answer "no" to this.

But people, I guess after watching lots of cable news, have come to assume it's a reasonable thing to wonder and talk about.

And what I hope my bullet points above get across is that the fear these people have of a mad max sort of situation where drugs are flying around aimlessly and your kids and neighbors get hooked is exactly what you're causing when you prohibit drugs.

So it's not like there's this dichotomy where not locking people in cages seems nice but has a bad practical outcome. The bad practical outcome, as tho the universe makes sense or something, happens when you lock people who haven't hurt anybody in a cage.

Silk Road

Silk Road is kind of different than drug legality. It was a black market solution, but that's not the same as drugs just not being illegal in the first place. So I'm sort of conflating two different things here, but they're related of course.

And I consider Ross Ulbricht a hero because for one any time somebody follows their heart and does something bold which happens to make the world better for other people, they're kind of automatically a hero.

And Ross (if guilty of what he's accused of) is essentially guilty of providing safety to people who are in a difficult situation and most badly need it.

He's undoubtedly saved lives, and that he would be held prisoner for this is a perfect reflection of how backwards the "justice system" actually is.

I'm really happy to rock his memorabilia.

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Also I'm gonna donate all of the liquid portion of rewards from this post to @rossulbricht account ,, cheers!!

(And if it doesn't get many votes I'll send at least 5sbd cause I'm not gonna donate like 38 cents lol.)