superbee6868
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Reged: 12/07/04
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I'm a total newbie to ordering online but I've done a lot of reading on this board. I think what makes the legality of ordering meds online unique is this: There are many things that are "impractacle" to catch people but rather easy to punish people. Here's some examples: Prostitution. It's really expensive and impracticle to set up stings or comb the internet for escort services. Once caught, however, it's pretty easy to issue a citation and/or levy a fine. Same goes for driving without wearing a seat belt. Few police departments would set up road blocks or set up stings for catching people not wearing their seat belt. If a cop just happens to see you without one, however, they can write you a $75 ticket and you're pretty much screwed. The world of U.S. customs seizing drugs is just the opposite. It's pretty simple to intercept tons of packages that contain 90 or fewer days supply of Schedule 4 stuff like Valium. We all know it's illegal. They have your name and address right on the freaking package! They have an airtight case to present to a judge and get a search warrant etc. The problem is that it's expensive and impractacle to punish the offender. JFK airport( or whever it was seized) has to call the local authorities is Nebraska or wherever and hook up to set up some kind of sting. All of this is expensive and if the person has no prior record, not much is going to happen (assuming it's a small supply of schedule 4 meds). I think this is what makes comparing the legalities of ordering online meds to other illegal things an "apples to oranges" comparison. Does any of this make any sense? Your feedback is appreciated.
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spoonwhipper
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Reged: 02/24/04
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This makes complete sense and then some. I had it posed to me that odering meds overseas is yet another version of "outsourcing", an issue i see as apples to oranges. If the US government makes it impossible to afford US meds, that is not an issue of citizens outsourcing. That becomes an issue of survival based on pharmacuidal companies wishing to basically compete with itself by setting up overseas operations with cheaper prices. The whole issue warrants a giant sized head ache. Think Ill order aspirin. Wonder how much Tylonal is in the US these days.
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emb708
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Reged: 08/30/04
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boy i whish i lived where you do they do set up stings
to get escort services hubby use to run one yesr and years ago before we ever got together.then agen back then most poeple here did even the doctor and juges did they get the grils but not them running them that was about 20 years ago it was funny you see little old ladys running them.and they also set up road blocks or set up stings for catching people not wearing their seat belt.the fine on that here is more than it is for going to fast.
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floydjr
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Reged: 11/04/04
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The feds and state and local police love to spend exorbitant amounts of money to catch relatively petty criminals. I'm not one of those DEA or FDA or Pharmacuetical company shills that appear here from time to time, scaring everyone, but if anyone thinks for a second that those bastards can't find the time or the money to bust the people that engage in this activity then they are sorely mistaken.
Just the other month in my state the State Police, and the local police department set up an elaborate sting with listening devices, several hotel rooms, and literally dozens of cops (100's of hours of overtime) to catch an 18 year old stripper make a vague reference to a blowjob.
Interestingly enough, this is the same stripper who was, months earlier, discovered in the patrol car of an officer working in the same department which eventually busted her. Of course, at the time the cop claimed it was his "girlfriend" and he got off with almost no punishment.
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prettyday
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Reged: 02/09/03
Posts: 943
Loc: Coastal Sage Scrub
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My feedback is that I worry more and more about some little brilliant kid out there who gets 'turned' by the Feds from writing viruses to writing code that alerts one big program, like Carnivore, to any 'buzz' or 'red' words; then all they have to do is wait for things to arrive, not even search through to find.
It's coming people. There are ways around it though.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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avonmonnj
Banned again
Reged: 10/25/04
Posts: 33
Loc: we wont get into that here
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Well this all gets even stickier if you foster in the notion that some states are INFLUENCING their residents to use Canadian (which are non-us) pharmacies. And that some legitimate drug sales do take place through the mail.
I think alot of it boils down to who is running the operation and whether they're "covered" or not. When you're dealing with an escort service that has ads all over the place, they are so blatantly obvious that you know they must have connections to stay in business. Although it's not that cut and dry with IOP's, it makes a big difference. The major caveat being that the package will see so many hands. But overall, you're right, the cost has to somehow be justified in the criminal system. The gov. works much like a big company - always claiming to "care" about the little guy but in the end operating from a cost-effective motivation.
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