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If their business sold alcohol to as many teenagers as the Silk Road has sold drugs, then yes, they would get life.


Then why isn't the CEO of anheiser-busch given two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years?


AB-InBev does not sell directly to consumers. They have a distributor model of operation.


You mean how Silk Road didn’t actually sell anything but was only a marketplace?


Doing business in, or running, a marketplace without established legal regulations opens you up to undefined consequences. Without laws to bind you, there are no laws to protect you.




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