Mariana van Zeller

They don't, which is why it's so hard.

So this woman that we followed, she goes there, she buys her medication, and I asked her, do you know what's in there?

Oh, no, but my friend told me that it's a legitimate pharmacy.

Of course, she has no idea that this is happening, that the cartel is actually threatening them to death if they don't stock their shelves with their fake pharmaceuticals.

We did.

It's a lot more complicated than than it seems.

The L.A.

Times, again, did an amazing investigation where they did test it.

And again, I think it was something like seven or eight out of their 10 that they tested had fentanyl and meth, which was crazy.

Out of two pharmacies, I think.

Oh, I can't remember.

But it was I think it was Adderall, maybe.

I can't remember exactly.

But it was a great investigation.

And yeah, in our story, we sort of looked at how it ends up in the shelves and who's making it and how it's being produced.

There's an amazing doctor in Mexico City called Dr. Loco, who we spend time with, a doctor, a crazy doctor, Dr. Loco.

who was a chemist himself a doctor as well and his father owned a pharmacy so he sort of knew how to and he showed us he's making he's putting the little silicone pouch inside and the cotton ball that goes inside and it looks exactly the same like no one would have been able to tell god that's so scary so scary yeah yeah there's is there any evidence that that happens in america

That it's being sold in America?

Yeah, we went with the raid with the L.A.

Sheriff's Department where we saw a sort of a grocery store in the back that was selling these medications, mainly to underprivileged immigrant communities because they couldn't sell real stuff.