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From: daver@felix.UUCP (Dave Richards)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.med
Subject: Re: Where are drugs (opiates) legal?
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 12:48:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 12:48:47 1986
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Keywords: drugs, opiates, heroin, morphine
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In article <12057@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>In article <156@proper.UUCP> john@proper.UUCP (john) writes:
>>
>>     Does anybody out there know of any countries where the use of opiates
>>and/or other drugs for personal or recreational purposes is legal?  I'm most
>>interested in places where there are *no* restrictions, but I'd also like to
>>hear about places where there are just fewer restrictions than there are in
>>the U.S.
>>					 John Bashinski
>
>I had an Indian girlfriend a few years ago. When we were in India,
>they would stock up on all kinds of legal over the counter drugs
>which aren't available in the USA, and bring suitcases full of
>the stuff back here (don't ask me why customs let them get away
>with it. I watched as the suitcases went through inspection.)
>There are all kinds of things you can get there that aren't
>available here. I remember one drug called "Baralgin" or
>something like that (made by Hoffmann-LaRouche, I seem to
>recall) that was really potent for getting rid of headaches.
>My girlfriend was dependent on (probably addicted to) the
>stuff.
>
>Anyway, I think there are lots of drugs available in other
>countries that aren't available here, but it would be an
>enormous amount of work to find out about them.

This is getting off the track of the original posting, but one of my pet
peeves is the fact that penicillin is not available over the counter (or
any effective antibiotic, that I know of).  Is this due to pressure from
the A.M.A., to force people to see their doctors, or what?  It seems rid-
iculous to have to go to the doctor and pay a small fortune, when you
already know what's wrong with you and what you need to fix it.

I'm lucky, because if I ever decide I need some, I live close enough to
Mexico to go down there and get it over the counter.  Of course, one
must be careful of all the penicillin addicts laying around in the 
alleys there. (heavy sarcasm)

Dave "Gee, Doc!" Richards


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