#320721 - 03/16/06 11:09 PM
Mexican prescriptions no longer declarible at border!
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poddy
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Went down to mexico a few months back.
Well long story short, the law changed 2 months before we went.
It is NO LONGER leagle to bring prescription narcotics across the border. Even with a mexican prescription.
They took our pills away, and gave us a huge a^ss fine.
I just thank god, i'm not in a mexican jail getting fuxord.
It was leagle last year, now apparently its not.
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#320722 - 03/17/06 06:42 PM
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HappyDaze
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Went down to mexico a few months back.
Well long story short, the law changed 2 months before we went.
It is NO LONGER leagle to bring prescription narcotics across the border. Even with a mexican prescription.
They took our pills away, and gave us a huge a^ss fine.
I just thank god, i'm not in a mexican jail getting fuxord.
It was leagle last year, now apparently its not.
You'v been warned.
You have a bit of confusion. Mex scripts were NEVER valid in the US, nothing has changed. As far as Customs go, you can bring a small amount back, n/p, but the second you cross into your State you are in illegal possesion. I think your fine story is a fairy tale, worst they would do is just take them. We are talking sane amounts here. Why do people like you post stuff like this on here?
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#320723 - 03/17/06 09:10 PM
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tramagesty
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He may very well have gotten a fine that the border patrol just pocketed. They can be some shady fuqqers. (the BP's)
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#320726 - 03/18/06 12:19 PM
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HappyDaze
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It has been and still is legal to bring back a 90 day supply of meds that were prescribed and purchased outside of the U.S. unless it is a schedule I substance. Not my opinion ... this is federal law.
I hate it when ppl come in here spreading rumors and causing unwarranted panic. I guess it's just a need for attention (lol, anonymous attention). AKI
This is true if you have a script from an american Doc, A Mex or CA script might get you across the border, but the second you step into a State it's no good. It can only be carried accross not shipped, and I think they changed the 90 day supply to 50 days, seems I heard that recently.
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#320727 - 03/18/06 01:16 PM
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Browser
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It has been and still is legal to bring back a 90 day supply of meds that were prescribed and purchased outside of the U.S. unless it is a schedule I substance. Not my opinion ... this is federal law.
I hate it when ppl come in here spreading rumors and causing unwarranted panic. I guess it's just a need for attention (lol, anonymous attention). AKI
This is true if you have a script from an american Doc, A Mex or CA script might get you across the border, but the second you step into a State it's no good. It can only be carried accross not shipped, and I think they changed the 90 day supply to 50 days, seems I heard that recently.
I've been limited to 50 tabs. The Farmacia refused to dispense more because they said the border patrol would get me. I asked the border patrol when I got there. I was told that 50 was the max and the State of Texas (the drug stores are very active against importation from Mexico for obvious reasons and have clout) is considering having a Texas ranger sitting at the declarations table with a radio, describing the person bringing what becomes no prescription controlled substances once you cross over to another Texas ranger watching you.
This sort of thing has been declared constitutional. It was tested years ago when Connecticut State Police took down license numbers at liquor stores in Springfield, MA of cars with Connecticut license plates people were getting into with their purchases. You entered the State of Connecticut, you got pulled over.
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#320728 - 03/18/06 01:32 PM
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poddy
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"I think your fine story is a fairy tale"
O.K. you try it, and see what happens. I had a bottle with 30 2 mg Tafill, and a packet of 30 codiene.
I was in the customs office when they told me that the law had recently changed. They took our pills, and gave us a huge [censored] fine. They even gave me a receipt. My friends couldn't pay on the spot, so they had them mail the rest of the $ to customs.
Its amazing how many of you discredit my experience. Try it for yourself as*shats.
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#320731 - 03/19/06 01:22 PM
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HappyDaze
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Another option (if you don't have the bottles) is to buy in Mexico and fed ex them to your home address or P.O.Box.
C'mon ppl!! Use some creativity. The DEA and Border Patrol certainly does.AKI
The package would most likely be seized by Customs.
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#320732 - 03/19/06 01:57 PM
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Dorion
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Registered: 10/23/05
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if IOPs can mail you your meds, I don't see why you can't get away with it as well. Just pack it well, and send it airmail so you don't need to sign for it or use your real name.
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#320736 - 03/19/06 09:28 PM
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Browser
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What is considered "personal use"? Where are you finding this information?
Is this really true? Everything I find on the web says it is not legal, not even one pill.
What is the truth?
Here is what is says on the DEA web site: if the prescription drug is a controlled substance and the drug is being imported into the U.S. from a foreign country and being shipped to anyone other than a DEA-registered importer, such transaction is a felony in violation of Sections 957 and 960 of Title 21, United States Code.
Doesn't this say point blank that no amount is legal? Or is this just another "suggestion"?
I would really like to know what the real truth is before taking this step.
Thanks.
You have quoted the law. The feds have other fish to fry but if you get caught with 5000 of a controlled substance on its way to your house, you'll get a knock on the door. Foolish people, don't mock us by saying you can get away with saying "I didn't order it" or other things you can't even use to turn a speeding ticket into a courtesy warning to drive carefully. The time will come when one of us will be busted for ordering and receiving 10 Vs so an example can be made of us. The most famous case was one of the Italian bombshells of the last generation who got busted at Kennedy Airport bringing Vs back from her home country. She was bringing back a 30 day supply. Busted.
Edited by Browser (03/19/06 09:33 PM)
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#320737 - 04/02/06 04:06 PM
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prettyday
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if IOPs can mail you your meds, I don't see why you can't get away with it as well. Just pack it well, and send it airmail so you don't need to sign for it or use your real name.
Now mailing does work. Very well. Especially if slapped together very unprofessionally, looking like sending sourveniers to family. I sent back 26 packages of stuff from Germany some years ago. Every single one arrived.
In the interest of all of us getting frustrated by NROP, ROP, and IOP roadblocks, I just want to second this method. It does work and did work for friends of mine for years, and that is all I will say. Sometimes simpler is better.
I was all for activism, writing letters and protesting and I still am, but now I wonder, how long will that take and in the meantime what do I do...now...whatever works that you are willing to take the consequences of...I now think my morality has adjusted and I say, whatever works to help one feel better, is fine and good with me.
But!
Whoever tries this, please remember, that it appears consequences are catching up with us a little more often now, so before you do the Mex thing or any shipping across lines...
It's not just you and consequences, will your spouse or loved one be humiliated or labeled?
Do you have children?
And lastly, but somehow this had the most pathos for me: I was at a Petco a month back getting stuff for my babies, and I checked the Cat Adoption Room, to say hello like I always do.
There were two beautiful, I mean royal-blue eyed, beautifully ruffed, Himalayans there, sisters. They were terrified and confined even though Petco is better than 72 hours at a horribly busy pound.
The caption with them said in brief that they had been loved and cared for, groomed professionally once a week, but the people who adored these kitties got busted for drugs; and now the cats are too old to be adopted easily, but young enough to live for years yet...and there they are.
They did get adopted together, I checked back...but it was a close thing...
So before you take chances, have your possiblilities in mind, and how you will deal with them...be prepared for all and anything, these days.
Then take your chances, but have someone in mind who will be there to care for all those you love just in case. Lots of people do this all the world every day, it is just thinking ahead.
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#320740 - 04/03/06 07:58 PM
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Browser
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Why are you even declaring them? When I have come across the border the farmacia's put the pills into a ziploc baggie and I either buy a blanket and roll it in it, or a piggy bank and shove them down inside and break it when I get home. There are all kinds of ways just to walk across with them, even in your sock. As long as there isnt metal in the bottle, they arent going to body search you.
Just my experience from TJ.
You obviously have never been singled out. When you are, you are strip searched and everything you're bringing back is examined very carefully. Don't even try buying a big bottle of cajeta, placing the baggie in it and carrying it across the border. Mexico seals things with plastic that must be broken off to prevent tampering these days just like we do in the US.
Yes, I remember carrying Roopers across the border in baggies in my jockey shorts. Then one day, while bringing nothing across except something covered by a dentista script, I was pulled aside and taken in the room for an exam. Of course I passed. But if I had had that baggie of roopers in my jockey shorts that time I would have been in very deep doo doo. I've also crossed the border in towns bordering Arizona and California years ago when the border crossing was not manned. But in those days, what could you buy in Tacate?
It's totally OK to be one of 14 million felons in the US here illegally, one of which totaled my car a couple of weeks ago, and the US government caring nothing about it, but us bringing stuff across the border is getting more and more impossible.
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#320742 - 04/03/06 10:30 PM
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faerie
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i haven't done this for years...but i used to buy tons of souvenirs. that was actually a primary reason for going...it was fun. anyway, im a midwestern very pale blonde female and married to another midwesterner, and they never even looked for script meds. oh, and i always showed them some asthma inhalers i had bought and some other asthma meds, and the other things were in places that it might have looked like they just fell into other bags, etc or in mislabeled bottles for asthma meds that i legit take. anyway, i have no idea if this would still work, and actually will prob never again try it, but it worked in the past. i do think that a white female, married, with souvenirs has an easier time at those border crossings. they seemed more interested in commiserating with my husband over women shopping on vacations and living in the midwest than anything else...jmo~faerie
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#320743 - 09/12/06 05:41 PM
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super68
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#320746 - 09/12/06 10:52 PM
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ocjack
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How about one of you pale midwesterners drive to Mexico with me and pose as my wife? I live in so. calif, and am joking about the midwesterners part, but actually would be willing to drive if someone with a bit of experience would like to venture Tijuana for shopping.
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