Internet Pharmacies : Canada's Transnational Organized Crime

Advertising or selling foreign-sourced medicines that are not approved by Health Canada is a criminal act in Canada. Yet, in the last decade, unscrupulous “Internet pharmacies” — some of which are just call centers and not truly pharmacies at all — located on Canadian soil have built a wildly successful industry on that criminal transaction, pitching unapproved medicines from developing countries such as India to patients and doctors in the United States. While the United States has, at times, prosecuted the Canadians responsible for this criminal cross-border trade — dealing in unapproved medicines violates American law too — no one has been prosecuted in Canada