Sounds like another example of the politician's fallacy. Yes, people need those thing, but one can recognize that while still disagreeing that the blockchain will in any significant way help with that. And that kind of argument - "either you're with me or you hate poor people in failed nation-states!" - is just emotional manipulation.
I might feel more emotional about this because I'm involved right?
From my perspective, I'm not appealing to your feelings, I'm telling you that buying drugs is a very small portion of what makes cryptocurrencies relevant and blockchain based commerce a necessity.
I was just at a talk where Steward Brand, a man known for the Whole Earth Catalog, the Hackers Conferences, the Mother of all Demos as well as the Trips festival (early SF psy-scene) was showing incredible vitality and enthusiasm about what the Ethereum community is accomplishing right now.
Before that, there was this fantastic presentation by Glen Weyl from Radical Markets fame who has a vision for empowering under-privileged and under-represented that relies on blockchain. His work with Vitalik Buterin and others (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656) on Liberal Radicalism is a step forward towards funding of commons and allowing communities to self-organise.
At no point during the last 5 days did I hear one person at this conference mention buying drugs with cryptos.
