Online Pharmacies, Legal Or Not?
By:
Alex Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:13 PM
We are all aware of the whole fuzz about the illegality of
selling and buying prescription meds online. At this moment I don’t think that
anybody certainly point to either one direction..
Let’s try to argue against the illegality version:
- First
of all the FDA implies that online pharmacies are illegal, and their
affirmation is based on:’ Federal law requires that "A prescription
for a controlled substance to be effective must be issued for a legitimate
medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course
of his professional practice" (21 CFR
1306.04(a)).” That fact is, that most meds are not “controlled substances”
and that makes them legal for internet sale.
- On the
Internet are only less than 10 US prescriptions distributors. If the
Federal Government would have a legal case why aren’t they shut down?
- Why
some states had to come up with their own legislation to ban and enforce
the sell of internet prescription drugs to their citizens if a federal low
exists? Here is a list of states where internet meds are not allowed: http://www.ordermeds.us/medsshipmentrestrictions.html
- To
comply with the federal low all this distributors eliminated the sales of
“control substances” like: Ambien, Sonata, Phentermine….and continued
their business.
Considering all of the above, unless I am missing something
really important I consider that ordering
meds online from US pharmacies is totally legal. If this activity wouldn’t
be complying with the law closing it down should be a matter of days not weeks!
On the other hand there are hundreds of Overseas, Mexican
and Canadian pharmacies of witch legality I’ll try to discuss later.
How do you know witch pharmacy bases its activity on USA?
Check to see if they distribute control substances and if they ship in the
restricted states mentioned above. They might specifically let you know what
meds are distributed from US pharmacies.
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