The illicit drug trade operates similarly to other underground markets. Various drug cartels specialize in the separate processes along the supply chain, often localized to maximize production efficiency and minimize damages caused by law enforcement. Depending on the profitability of each layer, cartels usually vary in size, consistency, and organization. The chain ranges from low-level street dealers who may be individual drug users themselves, through street gangs and contractor-like middle men, up to multinational empires that rival governments in size. The UN report said the global drug trade generated an estimated $321.6 billion in 2003.
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This German drugs smuggler used his needlework skills to turn his bermuda shorts into a multi-pocketed coke carrier. He was arrested at El Prat de Llobregat airport near Barcelona with a weighty 6.6 kilograms of cocaine.

A 66 year old Chilean man was caught at Barcelona airport wearing this plaster cast on his foot made of cocaine. He believed his smelly foot would disguise the whiff of the drug.

A coach carrying a coach-load of pensioners on a day trip to Calais was found to be also carrying a multi-million pound consignment of amphetamines.

These dogs got someone life and not just Christmas- a gang of Colombian drug dealers had obviously run out of mules so they surgically implanted liquid heroin into these adorable puppies.

Rex the Labrador was also used as a ‘mule’ when he and his doggy friend had their stomachs stuffed with