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Canadian manufacturers (Sandoz and Apotex) are preparing to launch their own generic versions in early 2026. I bet many Americans would travel to Canada to buy
by gpt5 1y ago
Canadian manufacturers (Sandoz and Apotex) are preparing to launch their own generic versions in early 2026.
I bet many Americans would travel to Canada to buy it there (despite the legality concerns). The medications lasts 2 years in a refrigerator.
- rootusrootus 1y agoIf you're going to go for a two year supply, it's probably better to just risk shipping it. You're not going to come home with that much without it getting confiscated, and you're way more likely to be searched individually than a typical package is.
- themafia 1y agoYou should be able to travel with a 90 day supply without issue.
- daniel_iversen 1y agoNot an American but there’s only very limited circumstances you can travel across the border home to the USA with foreign prescription drugs, right? And this scenario wouldn’t cover it. Unless you just meant they won’t get caught or maybe not fined or confiscated in practice? :)
- toomuchtodo 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45638316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45638316
- valicord 1y agoThat's mainly for visitors. If you're a US resident, you can't just buy medicines abroad, unless of course we are talking about the "they won’t get caught" scenario.
- Muromec 1y agoSounds like an opportunity for non-residents.
- chronos00 1y agoUS residents can buy medicines abroad the FDA link says personal importation is allowed as long as the medicines are FDA approved and are not being imported for commercial purposes. Now in the context of the original post maybe generic versions of Ozempic won't technically be FDA approved yet if the company that produces it has to wait for the US patent to expire.
- jay_kyburz 1y agoThe FDA approved version may be significantly cheaper to compete with the generic brands. I also wonder if only the "active ingredients" need to be FDA approved, and the packaging is irrelevant?
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- vl 1y agoOf course you can buy medicine abroad and legally bring 90 day doses. More over, you can order and ship medicine, including ozempic and zepbound, using American prescription from Canadian online pharmacies. For some drugs it’s quite cheaper than paying American prices.
- axus 1y agoThe major legal question for generic Ozempic imports will be, did Novo Nordisk buy Trump coins or donate to the White House ballroom?
- c2h5oh 1y agoWith de minimis for US-bound packages suspended I suspect way more packages are inspected than used to be.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> With de minimis for US-bound packages suspended I suspect way more packages are inspected than used to be But a smaller fraction. If you’re paranoid, route it via the UAE. All my European and Indian shippers are doing that for tariff-free pricing. (Personal stuff. I’ll pay a customs duty if I get it, of course.)
- CamperBob2 1y agoYou can import from UAE without paying any duties or fees?
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- JumpCrisscross 1y agoAt least for wine, furniture, cheese, olive oil, art, kitchen equipment and medicine, at least from Italy and Germany and India and Taiwan, in the last six months, allegedly.
- delfinom 1y agoI mean that entire region has bought the president, even got themselves a military base being built on American land now too. So why not.
- seszett 1y ago> got themselves a military base being built on American land now too As a European I'm as critical of the US government as can be and their president has definitely been bought, but there are already several countries that have some training facilities and military personnel in the US. Calling it a foreign military base is really unnecessarily hyperbolic. And given the amount of military bases that the US have on foreign land, the outrage also seems a bit misplaced.
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- AnimalMuppet 1y agoUm, what are the legality concerns? Is it illegal to bring medicine for your own use over the border? If not that, then what? (Honest question. I don't know.)
- ano-ther 1y agohttps://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importation https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...
- dataflow 1y agoThis sounds like something the current SCOTUS should be more than happy to shoot down, no? If you're bringing medication for yourself from abroad that you obtained legally, why should the FDA's concerns for your own safety trump (no pun intended) your freedom?
- jacobgorm 1y agoJust don’t do it in a speed boat.
- Scoundreller 1y agoMore government attacks on the freedom of law-abiding speed boat owners
- stevehawk 1y agothe shelf life is probably longer than that if you buy it in dehydrated form and don't hydrate it (but i have no idea)
- ReptileMan 1y agoSo cocaine from the south, ozempic from the north, fetanyl from the west and the meth is homegrown. So USA just need some powder from europe to close the circle.
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- OptionOfT 1y agoThat would be MDMA.
- fragmede 1y agoWait, but where does Elon's ketamine come from?
- ReptileMan 1y agoMars
- pqtyw 1y agoDoesn't he have his own legal lab?
- gus_massa 1y agoI guess you get more shelf life, but it's an injectable drug. You probably have to disolve it in very clean water in a very clean container. Do you have to match the salinity and pH with the proprties of the blood? How much time must you stir it to ensure it's completely disolved? Do you have to add something to increase/reduce viscosity? Some alcohol in case there are a few bacterias or improve solubility? How long does the small homemade batch last in the fridge? IIUC there is another version in pills, they may have a longer shelf life, or not. But ask a medical doctor before taking a ramdom medicine.
- reaperducer 1y agoI bet many Americans would travel to Canada to buy it there Why travel? There are thousands of ads on TV, radio, and the internet each day for Canadian pharmacies that promise to ship whatever you need to the U.S.
- loeg 1y agoI think the biggest legality concern is having your shipment seized at the border. Maybe a risk but it’s not exactly a scheduled drug.