A 66 year old Chilean man was caught yesterday in Spain trying to smuggle Cocaine in the form of a cast.

It makes me wonder.
Ever wish you had a company where your Research and Development department’s budget was unlimited? Ever wanted to work for a company that was okay with you failing, but every little success paid astounding dividends?
If this is what you seek, you ought to join the drug trade.
No other economic arena routinely fails in the ingenuity department, yet continues to thrive financially.
Allow me to illustrate what I mean.
1. Mules–Some will get caught, but most will make it through. The reward is too juicy not to take the risk. And with so much product and money to throw around what’s a few ten thousands?
I love the show “Locked Up Abroad” on the National Geographic channel because it tells the stories of people who got caught smuggling drugs in foreign countries. The thing is the authorities don’t bust people regularly. They’re lucky to catch people. So these drug dealers freely take chances by having (several) people smuggle drugs and as shown by this futile on going war on drugs they clearly have a success rate that’s better than their failure rate.
2. Manufacturing — It’s widely known that Cocaine can be processed into a paste/clay-like substance making it possible to take on the forms of common items like toys, candy, jewelery and sculptures.
“They caught the girl with the fake candy.”
“How?”
“She was being searched. Some of the pieces of candy broke and the customs agent wanted to try it, so the girl let her. The customs agent had a heart attack. A second one came and tried it, same thing happened. That’s when they knew it wasn’t candy.”
3. Anything is fair game
If you brainstormed a list of ways to get drugs into foreign countries using humans flying on commercial airlines, your most absurd suggestions would actually make it to the testing phase.
“Why don’t we try to make cocaine makeup?”
“Ladies powdering their noses. I like that.”
“Deodorant.”
“Smells like success.”
“Detergent.”
“Helps with the laundering.”
“Lotion.”
“Easier to get it in.”
“Dead babies.”
“The live ones make too much noise. Way too suspicious.”
“A cast.”
“That’s my kind of broken promise.”
And that’s only what I came up with. There are way more creative people actually working on this, coming up with ideas that wipe mine off the board.
What a weird job market that has to be for chemists, inventors and designers in countries like Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. You have the chance to be set for life, always work with no budget and basically make any idea you want feasibly come to life. The only problem is you can only use one ingredient.
What would you do?
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