Canadian Online Pharmacies Kick-Ass

During US Senate hearings investigating online pharmacy saftey, and interesting picture was revealed about the quality of Canadian online pharmacies:

All 18 Canadian sites required consumers to supply a physician-written prescription before filling orders. That was the case for five of 29 U.S. pharmacies; no other foreign pharmacies did. (click here for the full AP article)

Only 5 of 29 US online pharmacies required a doctor's prescription, and American drug companies are complaining about the saftey of Canadian drugs?

In fact, the US GAO (General Accounting Office) found that narcotics were quite easy to purchase from American and foreign online pharmacies, and they were even shipped in disguised packaging.

A shipment of the narcotic OxyContin arrived in a plastic compact disc case, investigators said. A bottle of pills of the AIDS drug Crixivan came inside a sealed aluminum can that was itself enclosed in a box labeled "Gold Dye and Stain Remover Wax."

I definitely agree that the industry deserves regulation, but it is clear that the concerns of pharmaceutical companies in the US over cheaper Canadian drugs, are simply concerns over profits, and have nothing to do with saftey.