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The online drug market: How much marijuana is sold this way?

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 08:45

 

The government’s war against online drug sales isn’t working, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.

Despite law enforcement crackdowns, online drug black markets have matured into a resilient criminal industry that enables more than $100 million worth of worldwide sales a year, a new paper from researcher Kyle Soska and computer science professor Nicolas Christin reports.

The report is one of the most comprehensive looks yet at the burgeoning online drug market. Researchers collected data on 35 online marketplaces that were active on the “Dark Web” — sites that require the anonymous browsing tool Tor to access and are much harder for law enforcement to track — between 2013 until January of this year. They wrote a program to scrape the sites for data, including examining the prices that the drugs — from marijuana to cocaine — were being sold for. They also collected information on how much...

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