Black Market

For the fishermen of Hout Bay, South Africa the post-Apartheid years have meant less opportunity as they are forced to turn to poaching to survive.

Across the U.S., a powerful opioid-based cough syrup has become a dangerous pop culture sensation.

In a vicious cycle of dependency and despair, drug addicts shoplift meat and other everyday items and sell them to cash-strapped Brits struggling to get by in todays UK.

Designer clothes are on sale for unbelievably low prices because the only cost is the risk of getting caught boosting.

The wave of cannabis legalizations has deepened divides and complicated the marijuana industry; corporate weed is thriving, but the black market for cannabis still looms large.

Drinking water is so poorly managed that our most basic resource has emerged as a terrifying black market. The stakes are critical, yet for most of us, its barely on our radar.