Thread: Ordering prescription meds from Canada

I'm not sure that its legal yet? I haven't been following it...

It is against current U.S. law to re-import prescription drugs (the legal exceptions are that drugs
manufactured in the U.S. may be re-imported by the original manufacturer or if the drug is required
for “emergency medical care”). It is also illegal to advertise or otherwise promote re-imported
drugs.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a personal use policy that allows individuals who fill
a prescription for certain unapproved prescription drugs while abroad to bring that prescription
back into this country for personal use. This is not a “legal” exception to the law; rather, it reflects
the FDA’s discretion to not prosecute these individuals, and can be changed at any time. The policy
was originally intended for humanitarian purposes to allow individuals suffering from serious
medical conditions to acquire medical treatments legally available in foreign countries but not
approved or commercially available in the U.S. However, some Americans view the personal use
exception policy as a way to access lower prices for medicines already approved in the U.S.
Although the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act prohibits re-importation, the federal government has
not strictly enforced the law in the past. The FDA has used discretion in dealing with reimportation
or importation of prescription drugs for personal use. Many American citizens have
been able to cross the Canadian border, purchase a limited supply of prescription drugs, and bring
them home. Earlier this year, in recognition of the increase in both Internet-based pharmacies
selling drugs from abroad and organized busloads of older persons traveling to Canada to buy
medicine, the FDA announced that it plans to enforce the law more rigorously by bringing civil or
criminal charges against third party groups that help Americans import drugs from Canada.


taken from a pdf file from
http://www.aarp.org/states/wi/Articl...wi-canada.html

thats all i could fine