Mariana van Zeller

But one of them, another one, cartel involvement is about fake pharmaceutical pills.

That's really interesting.

We spent time with a group called La Union in Mexico City where 80% of their job, of their money right now comes from fake pharmaceutical pills.

And, yeah, I mean, they're making these pills.

And then we went to India as well, which is another source of pharmaceutical pills.

You have like 40,000 online pharmacies that you can go to and buy prescription drugs without a prescription.

So a lot of Americans are doing that because it's much cheaper.

I think it's something like 20 million Americans are using the black market for their pills, for their drugs, because they can't afford them here, which is crazy.

20 million.

20 million.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

And people that can't afford, that need these medications to survive and they can't afford them here because we have the highest drug prices in the entire world.

It looks exactly the same, but a lot of these pills don't actually have any active ingredients.

So we spent time with a guy making 20,000 pills a night out of this little back house with a machine, a pill presser.

And it was just calcium and food dye to make it look the color, whatever color he wanted.

And he was selling it as amoxicillin and very likely ending up in American homes because they ship it all around the world.

And in that case, you know, the good luck of the buyer is that it was just calcium.

But in many cases, it gets mixed with cement and rat poison and all sorts of things.

They don't give a fuck.