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Crimebusters at work… .

June 7, 2005

From today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Adele Howard bought prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy forthree years without a single glitch until her medicine didn’t show upthree weeks ago.

Instead, the 78-year-old Berea grandmother got a letter from theU.S. Food and Drug Administration, whose inspectors had seized thepackage at a Chicago mail facility.

And they gave her 20 days to explain why the government should not send it back.

Read the rest of the story.

    Related links:

    Drug Reimportation: The Free Market Solution (Cato Institute) 
    Prescription Drug Reimportation: The Law and Its problems
    Minnesota’s Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program