Instead of USPS losing business due to email, for whatever fraction of targets who fall for the spam, email actually increases USPS shipments.

Another popular one is Oxycontin. In Australia, there was a huge expose on the misuse and addiction to this heavily prescribed drug, and an increasing reluctance of doctors to prescribe it, especially to addicts. One way for addicts to get around this is to buy it from those rogue pharma websites.

Ritalin may also be used by people who may not medically need the drug, but who take it because they are addicted to it. Doctors don’t hand out prescriptions for that either so again, rogue pharma websites.

You are correct in saying that drug companies expect too much money. I agree. I think drug companies are greedy and need to be taken down a few pegs. At least the FDA kicked GlaxoSmithKline in the shins this week for misbehaviour.

So you source drugs from countries with more liberal patent regimes that allow generic versions of various medication [and the indian pharma industry isn’t only supplying pill spammers, the bill and melinda gates foundation and bill clinton foundation both source cheap AIDS drugs from Indian manufacturers, for their campaigns in africa. So africans get AIDS medication for a fraction of the cost they’d incur buying it from a US or European manufacturer

The other thing is – new jersey has a sizeable indian and chinese diaspora with a regular track record of moving large quanties of material to the states, and large ports that have a significant # of traffic with India (where the drugs manufactured are genuine and high quality, sildenafil citrate is sildenafil citrate even if pfizer doesn’t make it and call it viagra).

Far less of that in texas / new mexico etc, and the local cocaine etc gangs there aren’t likely to appreciate new criminals butting in on their territory.