Yes, but you can also buy drugs in the real world with cash and cash has also been demonized. However when Silk-Road was in the public eye briefly via mainstream news the value of Bitcoin actually increased. As did the user base at Silk-Road.. But what is the point you are making? Yes you can buy drugs and guns online with Bitcoin. So what. If you would care to elaborate the point you are getting at... Bitcoin WILL be demonized from many angles; the question is will it be able to survive and thrive in this time of exposure and publicity? As of this posting, Silk-Road is still up and Bitcoin has increased in value in the past few days. And it is not Silk-Road that is actually demonizing Bitcoin, that is simply a website. It is the opponents using Silk-Road as a catalyst to associate it with "drugs and guns". Oh and evil "hackers". But cash is used by the mafias.. Bitcoin seems to be the digital cash dollar. When a dollar is digitized, it looses anonymity. But in physical world cash is as anonymous as Bitcoin. So it's a vice-verse type of thing as I see it.