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Buying affordable medicine is a crime not because there is a health risk, but because you are engaging in copyright infringement. You aren’t paying your toll to

• gtop3 4y ago
  The FDA has rules limiting the import of all prescription drugs, and does not distinguish between drugs with an active patent and those with an expired patent. In addition, it's possible to purchase patented drugs that are manufactured legally overseas. I think you are conflating illegally manufactured medicine and laws for importing medicine. You can see the FDA makes no mention on if the medicine is under a patent when setting it's rules for which prescription drugs can be imported [0]. [0] https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importation https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...
• sithadmin 4y ago
  'Buying affordable medicine' in your argument begins false premise. Whether or not many cheap generic substances produced for sale primarily in the developing world actually qualify as 'medicine' by US/EU standards is a very serious problem, and it's very common that these generic drugs don't live up to the standard for various reasons. Issues like under-dosing of the active compound, contamination, and use of unsafe additives are all frequent issues with drugs not intended for sale in the North America/The EU/markets that follow US/CA/EU approval in lieu of strong local standards. In reality, the 'crime' here is buying something that may, or often may not qualify as medicine per leading standards, for which there are both safety and intellectual property concerns.