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These include a nurse offering to sell prescriptions over WhatsApp for cash, and a fake doctor selling an unlicensed and potentially dangerous black market Korean medicine.

A 2024 report by a state oversight body found that California regulators are late to investigate complaints at treatment facilities or to come down on unlicensed facilities advertising services that require a license.

Polymarket is banned in several countries as an unlicensed offshore gambling platform.

Without those safeguards, explained Barton, prescribers can miss vital conditions that make treatment unsafe, or channel counterfeit and unlicensed products on to the market.

She pointed to a Times investigation that found the state’s law “fueled a surge in underground markets where unlicensed and even criminal operators and scammers replaced pet stores,” she said.