Dark Web Drug Sales Triple in Three Years Since Silk Road 1.0 Closure
In the three years since Silk Road 1.0 was closed – and Ross Ulbricht given a life sentence – drug sales have tripled.
Drug sales on the dark web have tripled since the closure of the high-profile Silk Road marketplace in 2013 and life imprisonment of its owner, Ross Ulbricht.
Revenues have doubled in the same period, as the threat of FBI arrest and a lifetime in prison has done little to stop the sale of drugs like cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy online. Dark web marketplaces are hidden from search engines like Google and can only be visited through anonymising browsers like The Onion Router (Tor).
A study, published by Rand Corporation Europe and conducted by Judith Aldridge from the University of Manchester and David Decary-Hetu from the University of Montreal, found all dark web marketplaces combined sell between $12m and $21.1m (£9m to £16m) of illegal drugs every month....
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