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Re:Using Silk Road by iblaine on Monday February 18, 2013 @11:55PM (#5242702)
What personal drug habit requires $50k? If it is blow, that's at least an 8-ball every single day for a year. I can only guess you're buying that volume of drugs to resell it. Which is essentially why the guy in NZ was caught.
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Re:Using Silk Road by powertower on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @08:12AM (#5244039)
That's $135 per day. So to put it in percpective, at SR prices, thats 1.5 OC80 (OxyContin 80mg - oxycodone) pills per day. That's a far cry from people who do 10-20 of those.
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Re:Using Silk Road by Nursie on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:08AM (#5249676)
Wow, guess I never did the mathematics on an opiate addiction before. And people say smoking is an expensive addiction!

That's a massive amount of money for a couple of (very cheap to produce) tablets each day.

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