Closed call for evidence

ACMD internet-facilitated drug markets review

• From: Home Office and Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
• Published: 17 November 2023
• Last updated: 20 December 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Summary

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs call for evidence, collecting written evidence to better understand internet-facilitated drug markets (IFDMs).

This call for evidence ran from
9am on 17 November 2023 to 11:59pm on 26 January 2024

Call for evidence description

In August 2020, the Home Secretary commissioned the ACMD to provide advice and analysis of trends in drug trafficking on the darknet, and how enforcement might most effectively intervene in the movement of drugs facilitated by both the clear and darknet.

The ACMD has since established a working group focused on understanding internet-facilitated drug markets and has since specified its scope into the following:

1. Providing a typology of internet-facilitated drug markets.
2. Investigating the resilience of internet-facilitated drug markets in the face of law enforcement actions.
3. Establishing the effectiveness of law enforcement strategies that aim to reduce the harms that internet-facilitated drug markets generate.

The evidence collected will play an important role for any advice that will eventually be published by the working group. We would be grateful for your written feedback in the attached questionnaire as part of the call for evidence by 26 January 2024.

The deadline to respond is 26 January 2024.

Please send your completed questionnaire to email acmd@homeoffice.gov.uk.

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ACMD internet facilitated drug markets review: call for evidence

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Published 17 November 2023
Last updated 20 December 2023 + show all updates

1. 20 December 2023

   Updated closing date to 26 January 2024.

2. 17 November 2023

   First published.