Beating the House: Ethnographic Insights into a Web-Based Marijuana Grey Market

Online drug dealing to date largely has transpired through darknet crypto-markets inaccessible to outsiders without remote site access or knowledge of trade jargon, processes, and transaction steps. Surface web search engines are increasingly driving the marijuana market, however, and apt to minimiz...

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Main Author: Miller, J. Mitchell (Author)
Contributors: Miller, Holly Ventura
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2021, Volume: 46, Issue: 6, Pages: 1018-1033
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