“Decriminalization of Cannabis; the Effects on the Drug Market via the Dark Web”, Nicolien Boekhoudt2021-07-02 (, ; similar)⁠:

The rise of the internet the drug market partly moved to the dark web, and the rise of discussion regarding decriminalization of drugs.

That’s what leads to this paper, where research has been performed to find if there is a dependency between drug law and the number of drug transactions. This paper explains research performed on existing data on the dark web. It covers how the statistical analysis on the available data has been performed.

This research shows that there are statistically-significant differences between the number of transactions between countries. Whereas it does not show that there is a dependency between policy and number of transaction. It does show which countries have a high number of transactions compared to other countries.

[Keywords: drug traffic, legalization, decriminalization, cannabis, marijuana, dark web, EU]