[fat0wl]

There is a huge legal difference between getting caught doing drugs vs facilitating the trafficking of mass quantities of controlled substances. I don't think casual marijuana smokers should get all up in arms like "hey man they are just going after everybody now!", do they offer the same support to heroin cartels?

Even if you're against the war on drugs I don't think you should really take it as a personal slight when someone operating on this scale gets arrested. Unless you really 100% believe that distribution of heavy narcotics doesn't damage society.

[marssaxman]

If people are going to take drugs, somebody has to produce and distribute them. It doesn't make much sense to me that possession and consumption of drugs should be legal but manufacture and distribution shouldn't. Regulation would be nice, but the state is falling down on its duty there.

[dantheman]

I'd say that the war on the distribution of heavy narcotics far outweighs any damage down to society by their distribution.

[Nadya]

Can read more on policy and its impact here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

Distribution and intent to sell are still illegal. I was specifically referring to the users of drugs.

[aaron-lebo]

And some people may agree with you but it really has nothing to do with what Ulbricht was doing.