I grew up in the US, close to my grandma.

She was old and needed medicine, and often she'd buy her medicine in Mexico.

I have many fond memories of taking an all day road trip to Mexico, getting across the

border, trying to find La Pharmacia, hoping we'd get the right medicine there, figuring out

a way to get it back over the border and then driving home.

The thing is here in the US, medicine is crazy expensive, so making the trip down to Mexico

for medicine was worth it to us.

My grandma was just someone looking for deals and trying to save money.

But this is a common story, I've heard from other people in the US too.

Yeah, it's often illegal to do this, because the US doesn't want people importing drugs

that aren't FDA approved, but still people do it.

But then another option landed on the table.

Pharmacies began to appear online.

Suddenly you could order your medicines from your computer and get it delivered right

to your front door.

And that changed everything.

But there was a problem with this too, not all these internet pharmacies were above board.

They weren't all licensed.

And most of the time the medicines they were selling weren't regulated, and that makes

for a really murky and dangerous scene.

When rogue online pharmacies hit the market, underground partnerships were born to promote

them and get more customers.

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