introduction of bulk carriers and container ships, the implementation of this transport presents reduced cost and an amplified volume of trade which is lucrative for both governments and many investors through trade. Globalisation has clear links going back to the silk road initiative, as quoted by McBride, “More than two thousand years ago, China’s Han Dynasty launched the Silk Road, a sprawling network of commerce that linked South and Central Asia with the Middle East and Europe.”(2015, S.5) This trade system has been imperative towards countries all over the world through central Asia being the epicentre of one of the first waves of globalization, this connecting eastern and western markets, stimulating wealth.

The advances in which technology has produced over current years through globalisation has played a substantial role within the global narcotics trade, the creation of what is known as the deep web has thrived through globalisation. With the advancement of technological resources and information, the ideology of deep web is new-found ability to trade illicit drugs around the world through the click of a button on the internet right to the consumers front door, like day to day online shopping. The EU Drug Markets report published in 2016 identifies and comprehensively discuses, ‘The Expanding Influence of The Internet’. The report emphasis the internet as being an important contributor to globalisation impacted on the drug market in a number of ways. The advancement of technological communications has promoted the marketisation and trade of both legal and illegal substance misuse on an unprecedented scale within our society, enabling the manufacture and consumption of illicit drug pharmaceutical substances alongside new predominant psychoactive substances. The deep web stipulates innovative ways to access suppliers and customers. It is not so easy to access, unlike websites including Amazon, or your local online store, as the internet integrates what is well-known as the surface web, such as a typical web search. The deep web contains distinctive content such as web pages, private web pages and blocked web pages. With supply and demand throughout the global infrastructure continuously being more prevalent, the formation of the deep web allows fast trade and profit for these online criminals. In recent years, high levels of attention have been identified in online marke