Silk Road - Buying Illegal Drugs Online

Silk Road Blackmarket online

Buying cocaine can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road.

Silk Road, a digital black market that sits just below most internet users' purview, does resemble something from a cyberpunk novel. Through a combination of anonymity technology and a sophisticated user-feedback system, Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used electronics—and seemingly as safe. It's Amazon—if Amazon sold mind-altering chemicals.

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Weather Boston

Philadelphia, New York, Boston Weather: Tornado Watch Issued

The watch region stretches from Maine to Pennsylvania and is in impact until 8 p.m. A watch means weather conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms.

This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, June 1, at 10:45 AM EDT shows a broad patch of comma shaped cloud cover over eastern Canada. Showers and thunderstorms develop ahead of this cold front, from parts of Vermont and New York via Pennsylvania and Virginia. Strong daytime heating and increased southwesterly winds ahead of this cold front generate favorable conditions for severe weather development throughout this afternoon.

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