Canadians alone spend almost $30 billion a year on medications
If you’re looking for a business with a sure-fire return on investment, you would do well to investigate the highly lucrative global phenomena which is online prescription drug sales.
While governments around the world spend obscene amounts of money on keeping the relatively benign cannabis out of reach for the great unwashed, it seems the pharmaceutical industry is extremely well connected in political circles, as anyone with a hotmail or yahoo mail account will pay witness by the amounts of junk mail which ‘ghost’ through layer upon layer of anti-spam filters.
There isn’t a drug on the market which you cannot purchase online, and without the need for a prescription.
But unlike cannabis, a drug which is yet to be credibly linked to a single death (ever), some of the lotions and potions available via shady online pharmacies, can and will kill at the first time of experimentation.
Heavy-duty, industrial strength opioids such as OxyContin and Tramadol are at the forefront of a global epidemic which is without a doubt, being fueled by a pharmaceutical industry which knows no bounds in the lengths it will go to in a bid to peddle its wares, increasing sales (and profits) at the expense of a generation which no longer needs to leave home to score its next high.
And while Police use every tool in their arsenal to keep the Dutch and Spanish cannabis vendors offline, it seems the flood of online prescription drug sellers is so strong, even if the authorities do manage to take an online vendor offline every once in a while, there seems always another 10 such business’s to take its place.
So it would seem online pharmaceuticals appears to be THE growth business model at a time when all other business is tightening the purse strings.