Tag: dark web

How the Feds Are Going After Fentanyl Suppliers

Like everything else it touches, the internet has revolutionized drug dealing. Anyone with an internet connection can buy enough black-market fentanyl to kill off a small town—including federal law enforcement, whose strategy for stemming the flow of the killer opioid into the United States and slowing the tide of fatal overdoses is doing just that. But since there are many,

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10 States Where You Don't Want to Get Caught with Weed

Meet the Stoners Who Have to Go on ‘Treasure Hunts’ for Weed

The rise of the dark web has made it increasingly easy for users to buy illicit drugs, especially weed: Cannabis is the most popular drug on marketplaces like Agora, Evolution and Silk Road 2.  While purchasing substances on these marketplaces may be easy thanks to user reviews—in Russia, getting your hands on them can turn into quite a difficult process.

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Dark Web Markets: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

This piece is brought to you by the founder of the Global Drug Survey, Dr. Adam R. Winstock and Dr. Monica Barratt, Global Drug Survey and post-doctoral researcher.  Darknet markets or cryptomarkets have now been operating for five years (since the launch of Silk Road in February 2011). In the deep web, site owners, vendors and buyers are able to remain

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New Survey Reveals Rise in ‘Dark Web’ Drug Buys

The latest findings of an annually conducted international poll suggest that illegal drug sales on the Internet’s “dark web” are booming, even in the wake of the arrest and subsequent life sentence handed down to Dread Pirate Roberts (aka Ross Ulbrict), the founder of infamous drug trafficking website Silk Road. The 2015 Global Drug Survey was administered by addiction psychiatrist Dr. Adam Wintock

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