I'm pretty sure the CIA could close the whole DNM if they wanted but they need the drug market to exist for them to be assigned more money to fuel the comical endless drug war.I thought about using more than once but all the bad rep it has and knowing for what it's used... I don't know, it would make me feel a bit like an hypocrite, even if I didn't buy anything "too inmoral",so to speak.
The fact that there's people I could know personally, to have some "adventures" with them or searching them, the fact that there's a lot of plants that are very easy to get and most of them feel healthier and more wholesome than illegal stuff, and the fact that there's an enormous "legal" RC world... made me avoid the DarkNet.
BTW, I'm pretty sure the DN was made by the CIA or something like that, surely they move (or now perfectly those who move) most of the hard drugs there, it's just unbelievable that something like that exists and most people don't do nothing. Those seizures are probably "for the gallery".
It's quite clear that the drug market moves much more money than before the darknet existed, because of the reasons you are posting: a lot of people that use it wouldn't be able to find a dealer, at least during certain moments/contexts.
P.S I meant the DEA although the CIA applies too but the DEA more.