Sudafed in Cozumel with prescription?

[mediumone]

Will i be able to get old style Sudafed in Arizona?
I don't need it everytime i dive but do need it now and then. I go with the 12 hour pill.
Thanks

Your post was post # 60.
Read my post # 58.

 

[DandyDon]

Will i be able to get old style Sudafed in Arizona?

That's a large state. I checked Phoenix and Tuscon, they both have several Walgreens, who carries their store brand - if the store is not out of stock on your visit, which can happen: https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/w...on-drowsy-sinus-relief/ID=prod5355917-product

 

[mstevens]

When I go to Mexico, I transfer it out of the original packaging to another prescription pill bottle labeled as something else.

So, you're knowingly smuggling in a banned drug. Trying to obfuscate what it is might make it less likely that you'll be busted (like someone putting their heroin in makeup cases) but it'll be very clear evidence that you knew the drug was illegal but imported it anyway. It'd be pretty simple for the prosecutor to show that you brazenly discussed this on an open forum, as well.

What is it that makes people feel entitled to smuggle banned drugs? I know this seems like a trivial issue to many, since "it's legal back home", is "just a few pills" or they "need it". Tell that to people hanged in Saudi Arabia for having traces of cannabis in their shoes.

Should I presume that you'd be completely fine if you learned your kids' teacher had been arrested for smuggling "a few pills" of some Schedule I drug into the US because she "needed them"? Keep in mind that in the US oxycodone and methamphetamine are prescription drugs and cocaine is Schedule II, so it'd have to be something that, like pseudoephedrine in Mexico, is completely banned. The most familiar example to most people would be heroin. Or how about your cardiac surgeon? Or a presidential candidate?

 

[BRT]

So, you're knowingly smuggling in a banned drug. Trying to obfuscate what it is might make it less likely that you'll be busted (like someone putting their heroin in makeup cases) but it'll be very clear evidence that you knew the drug was illegal but imported it anyway. It'd be pretty simple for the prosecutor to show that you brazenly discussed this on an open forum, as well.

What is it that makes people feel entitled to smuggle banned drugs? I know this seems like a trivial issue to many, since "it's legal back home", is "just a few pills" or they "need it". Tell that to people hanged in Saudi Arabia for having traces of cannabis in their shoes.

Should I presume that you'd be completely fine if you learned your kids' teacher had been arrested for smuggling "a few pills" of some Schedule I drug into the US because she "needed them"? Keep in mind that in the US oxycodone and methamphetamine are prescription drugs and cocaine is Schedule II, so it'd have to be something that, like pseudoephedrine in Mexico, is completely banned. The most familiar example to most people would be heroin. Or how about your cardiac surgeon? Or a presidential candidate?

Says somebody who can dive without a decongestant.

 

[mstevens]

Says somebody who can dive without a decongestant.

Pretty sure you don't know me. I use a range of other solutions in part because they work very well and in part because my medical training makes me concerned about the risks of using pseudoephedrine.

It's irrelevant anyway. Pseudoephedrine is banned in Mexico, whether you "need" it or not.

I will note that most certifying organizations strongly advise against diving while using either systemic or topical decongestants.

 

[mediumone]

So, you're knowingly smuggling in a banned drug. Trying to obfuscate what it is might make it less likely that you'll be busted (like someone putting their heroin in makeup cases) but it'll be very clear evidence that you knew the drug was illegal but imported it anyway. It'd be pretty simple for the prosecutor to show that you brazenly discussed this on an open forum, as well.

What is it that makes people feel entitled to smuggle banned drugs? I know this seems like a trivial issue to many, since "it's legal back home", is "just a few pills" or they "need it". Tell that to people hanged in Saudi Arabia for having traces of cannabis in their shoes.

Should I presume that you'd be completely fine if you learned your kids' teacher had been arrested for smuggling "a few pills" of some Schedule I drug into the US because she "needed them"? Keep in mind that in the US oxycodone and methamphetamine are prescription drugs and cocaine is Schedule II, so it'd have to be something that, like pseudoephedrine in Mexico, is completely banned. The most familiar example to most people would be heroin. Or how about your cardiac surgeon? Or a presidential candidate?

Stunning sanctimony.
You'd be happy to pay for my Eustachian tuboplasty, (which my insurance will not cover), yes?
Per my ENT, pseudoephedrine or dilation are my options.
If you believe that he's missing something, I'd be happy to provide his contact information.

 

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Btw, I'm done.

 

[mstevens]

Stunning sanctimony.
You'd be happy to pay for my Eustachian tuboplasty, (which my insurance will not cover), yes?
Per my ENT, pseudoephedrine or dilation are my options.
If you believe that he's missing something, I'd be happy to provide his contact information.

You're easily stunned!

It's not sanctimony. It's explanation. It's illegal. Smuggling it in is even more illegal. What do you not get about that?

It doesn't matter what your US otolaryngologist says, nor indeed your Mexican one. It's not legal to bring pseudoephedrine into Mexico or to possess it here.

Tell you what: your otolaryngologist surely knows that cocaine is legal in the US. I'm positive he's used it as a topical decongestant during procedures, or at least is completely aware of this use (I mean, I did that and I was only a medical student at the time). It's also legal for the same use in Mexico. Why not see how it goes if you ask him for a prescription for a solution of cocaine to be used as a topical decongestant? The stuff's pretty cheap, at least in legal form.

A British woman was recently released from 13 months' imprisonment for taking tramadol into Egypt. It's over-the-counter in Mexico. Would a Mexican who got caught smuggling what to them is non-prescription tramadol into Egypt have a case just because her Egyptian partner had severe back pain and "needed" it (the argument the British woman made) extrapolating from British to Mexican because it's a prescription drug in the UK? As events show us, no.

 

[Joneill]

So, you're knowingly smuggling in a banned drug. Trying to obfuscate what it is might make it less likely that you'll be busted (like someone putting their heroin in makeup cases) but it'll be very clear evidence that you knew the drug was illegal but imported it anyway. It'd be pretty simple for the prosecutor to show that you brazenly discussed this on an open forum, as well.

What is it that makes people feel entitled to smuggle banned drugs? I know this seems like a trivial issue to many, since "it's legal back home", is "just a few pills" or they "need it". Tell that to people hanged in Saudi Arabia for having traces of cannabis in their shoes.

Should I presume that you'd be completely fine if you learned your kids' teacher had been arrested for smuggling "a few pills" of some Schedule I drug into the US because she "needed them"? Keep in mind that in the US oxycodone and methamphetamine are prescription drugs and cocaine is Schedule II, so it'd have to be something that, like pseudoephedrine in Mexico, is completely banned. The most familiar example to most people would be heroin. Or how about your cardiac surgeon? Or a presidential candidate?

Not that it makes it OK to flaunt the laws of a sovereign nation, but you can’t seriously be trying to equate someone illegally bringing in small amount of pseudoephedrine (which is harmless) to someone bringing in oxycontine or heroin?? Those are 2 drugs that can be dangerous even in small quantities.

In reality, the whole pseudo ban is quite silly as you’d need truckloads of the stuff to make any meaningful quantity of meth! However, the law is the law so you need to be prepared to deal with the consequences of your actions if you choose to ignore it.

 

[brsnow]

The steroid nasal spray seems to be working, so leaving the Sudafed home.