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> Serious question: Why not just bootleg the stuff?

Historically, the black market for medication has been vanishingly small. People don't as a rule trust drugs they get off of alibaba or wherever; even the viagra gray market is a small fraction of the prescription revenue.

And this doesn't treat something critical, it's a weight loss drug. To be blunt most people would probably choose to remain fat vs. buying an illegal generic.

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>To be blunt most people would probably choose to remain fat vs. buying an illegal generic.

Wow, I think the exact opposite. Weight loss is a huge industry and people are desperate.

Fentanyl seems to be tainting a lot of black market drugs lately. I'd want to test anything if it came from unofficial sources.

Totally different markets. They are adding fentanyl to cut intoxicant drugs as a way to make more money. Nobody gets high on a GLP-1. Never heard of supplement/nootropic drugs being tainted and doesn't make sense that anyone would on purpose because they are sold by companies with web stores and credit card processors.

I don't think this is true. Look at the number of people buying Modafinil off Indian websites.

Well technically because India is not a black market, more like a grey market. They didn't pay for IP, Indians just copied the drugs, but they achieved their goal - selling affordable medicine with good enough quality to an average Indian.

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