EOC Week 6: Illicit. What do you think?

Illicit drugs, purses, shoes, watches, jewelry, and even humans are a huge problem within not just our country but our entire world. People all over have made not billions but trillions of dollars producing and selling these items.



Coming out of Cuba, Africa, Panama, and other places across the world they make fake pharmaceutical drugs that they distribute to people all over the world. They put it on the internet for a discounted price and sell it as that brand. They make them by adding different components that are not even in the real drug, and they don’t put any of the real components of the real drug in their fakes. They use glue to make it stick together, they put glaze in it so its shinny and they use the dye that they use for street paint to dye the pill the color of their choice. The drugs that have come out of not just this country but others too, have not only made people sick from taking them, but have actually killed people. The makers do not care what happened to the people that have bought them, all they want is the money they is being given to them so they can support their families.

Purses mainly coming out of China produce jobs, food on the table, and money for the people that are having a hard time finding a job, which is everywhere because China is over populated. They have factories that are filled with people just pumping out purse after purse. They are given the fabric and a sewing machine and are told to make as many as they can out of what they give them. To ship the fabric safer they wait to print the logo on the fabric until they get it to where they are making it. They have they metal stamps that they get shipped separately and this simple process makes the purses quadruple in price, which is ridiculous. They make them so fast that they have nowhere to store them. They get mass orders and ship them all over the world, like in America, Italy, Greece, Mexico and many more other places.



Although we think those fake sunglasses, purses, shoes and other fashion wear are harmless to buy, there have been many killings over this and they have also started smuggling other illegal drugs with them. Once they start doing that there is no reason why they can’t throw in a few people to help make the products or worse drug women up with heroin and sell them to other countries for human sex trafficking which is something young women like myself fear.