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With Silk Road, people can import heroin almost with impunity.
If people can import heroin, cocaine, ganja, even though it's illegal, how much more can people safely import insulin for example?
Here, someone travel all the way to Canada to buy tons of insulin. But why travel to Canada? You just need the drug to move to US not you going back and forth?
American ‘caravan’ crossed Canadian border to buy affordable diabetes drugs
Say I have a diabetes. Say I import insulin from India for personal use. Will I go to jail?
Is punishment heavy on that?
Does the US have laws jailing people for importing medically necessary drugs for personal uses? I mean normal drugs, like insulin. Not narc like XTC.
Even if the drugs are patented, do people go jail for importing small amounts of generic drugs, say insulin, for personal uses?
If not. Then why not just import it? Even if it's illegal, why not just import it?
The US government cannot enforce laws against insulin import easily.
Note: The way Silk Road works is that selling in Silk Road is very dangerous for the seller. One fingerprint, he's done. However, buying is relatively safe.
For legal drugs, like insulin, I do not think the seller needs to fear getting caught. I don't think an insulin pharmacy should fear getting raided. They're selling insulin, not narcotics.
If importing insulin for personal uses can lead to jail time, that would be an answer. (However, that would be very bizarre. What? People sent to jail for importing something totally save? Insulin, unlike ganja, doesn't have that bullshit story that it's not safe. Everyone knows insulin is safe.)
Note: A good answer would be things like, they will go to jail if they import prescription drugs from another country. That would explain why they don't. (As far as I know that's not the case.) Another good answer would be, people don't know it. In fact, I want to know if it's even illegal in the first place to import many drugs for personal uses.
This is a sumary of the question after some comments and answers told me that there is no penalty at all for buyers for personal uses.
There is a solution for high drug price in US. Just import online
The penalty is nonexistant for personal uses. You're only in trouble if you're selling it. But the sellers are outside US and outside US jurisdiction.
Why the market doesn't take care of this is beyond me? Why Americans still complain about high drug prices?
So why not? Why don't I see online pharmacies where people just buy cheaper stuff online? The pharmacy can smuggle the drugs in US. I am not talking about narc here. Normal drugs. Normal drugs with the exact same content with the one prescribed by American pharmacy but at cheaper price.
- Drug prices in US are high
- A Free market could fix it. Countries beyond the US governments' reach can simply produce cheaper drugs
- Pharmacies lobby against it. Under the pretext that drugs must pass health approval/FDA whatever, people cannot import the drug.
With Silk Road, people can import heroin almost with impunity.
If people can import heroin, cocaine, ganja, even though it's illegal, how much more can people safely import insulin for example?
Here, someone travel all the way to Canada to buy tons of insulin. But why travel to Canada? You just need the drug to move to US not you going back and forth?
American ‘caravan’ crossed Canadian border to buy affordable diabetes drugs
Say I have a diabetes. Say I import insulin from India for personal use. Will I go to jail?
Is punishment heavy on that?
Does the US have laws jailing people for importing medically necessary drugs for personal uses? I mean normal drugs, like insulin. Not narc like XTC.
Even if the drugs are patented, do people go jail for importing small amounts of generic drugs, say insulin, for personal uses?
If not. Then why not just import it? Even if it's illegal, why not just import it?
The US government cannot enforce laws against insulin import easily.
Note: The way Silk Road works is that selling in Silk Road is very dangerous for the seller. One fingerprint, he's done. However, buying is relatively safe.
For legal drugs, like insulin, I do not think the seller needs to fear getting caught. I don't think an insulin pharmacy should fear getting raided. They're selling insulin, not narcotics.
If importing insulin for personal uses can lead to jail time, that would be an answer. (However, that would be very bizarre. What? People sent to jail for importing something totally save? Insulin, unlike ganja, doesn't have that bullshit story that it's not safe. Everyone knows insulin is safe.)
Note: A good answer would be things like, they will go to jail if they import prescription drugs from another country. That would explain why they don't. (As far as I know that's not the case.) Another good answer would be, people don't know it. In fact, I want to know if it's even illegal in the first place to import many drugs for personal uses.
This is a sumary of the question after some comments and answers told me that there is no penalty at all for buyers for personal uses.
There is a solution for high drug price in US. Just import online
The penalty is nonexistant for personal uses. You're only in trouble if you're selling it. But the sellers are outside US and outside US jurisdiction.
Why the market doesn't take care of this is beyond me? Why Americans still complain about high drug prices?
So why not? Why don't I see online pharmacies where people just buy cheaper stuff online? The pharmacy can smuggle the drugs in US. I am not talking about narc here. Normal drugs. Normal drugs with the exact same content with the one prescribed by American pharmacy but at cheaper price.