The purpose of the war on drugs is to provide jobs and protect established corporate and religious interests. Think of all the LE and prison guards who would be out of job if drugs were legalized. Think about all the parole and probation officers. Think about all the people who work at rehabilitation facilities. Think of all the judges and DA's. Think of the people who train drug dogs. Think of the people who make drug tests. Think of the pharmaceutical industry. Think of all of the drug money that the federal government seizes. The war on drugs is directly responsible for *a lot* of peoples jobs and to prevent competition to established corporate interests. And religious people just think it is satanic. So today, largely the war on drugs is about money and religion. It still has a large discriminatory aspect to it as well, but I would argue less so today than in the past. And of course it gives the government more powers. DEA has publicly announced that it has an on going investigation into SR. You don't have high rankin government officials write letters to the head of the DEA asking them to shut down SR as soon as possible, without having some operation come out of it. There is a 0% chance that some people on SR will not be arrested for their participation on SR, and imo most of them will be customers simply because how are they going to get a vendor who follows proper security protocols? The majority of people in prison over drugs are in prison for personal use amounts. Their incarceration is quite profitable for the government. Interpol has been the agency that focuses on internet related drug crime for a long time. It is quite naive to assume that the DEA will need to jump through many hoops to get the full support of Interpol and all of its member countries. Although of course USA is the country with the most major hard on for SR. Maybe, but they should also be the most secure. It is also possible that the most at danger are those most easily pwnt, and that is more likely to be customers than vendors, since customers need to give a shipping address. I think we will see action soon enough. Targeted operations are generally run for fairly standardized amounts of time, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 24 months, etc, before they simultaneously move in on the identified targets. The other type of operation they do is dragnet, in those cases they tend to be more reactive, ie; they move in on the target when they randomly intercept a package addressed to the target after doing dragnet mail screening.