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    Prosecution says FedEx was a drug courier, defense says company is innocent

    SAN FRANCISCO - A six-week criminal trial of FedEx Corp. began in federal court in San Francisco Monday with a prosecutor accusing the company of acting as a "prolific drug courier" in delivering millions of packages of illegal drugs between 2000 and 2010.

    "We are very confident that we will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that FedEx had knowledge of exactly what online pharmacies were doing - that is, selling drugs without legitimate prescriptions," prosecutor John Hemann told U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer.

    "The motive of FedEx was to make money," Hemann continued.

    "It wanted to get its money before the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration shut down the pharmacies," he said in his opening statement.

    Breyer will decide the case without a jury. Both sides agreed last week on the eve of jury selection to give up their right to a jury.

    The Memphis-based shipping company was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco in 2014.

    more San Francisco: Prosecution says FedEx was a drug courier, defense says company is innocent - San Jose Mercury News

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    Can't have people getting cheap generic drugs and cheating big pharma and the few authorized makers of overpriced generic drugs out of their profits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobR View Post
    Can't have people getting cheap generic drugs and cheating big pharma and the few authorized makers of overpriced generic drugs out of their profits.
    Certainly might be a motivator there. Big Pharma is in control big time in the USA. Watch an hour of television and you will see commercials for at least 4-5 different drugs. Freeing up the medical drug enterprise would be good for the people, but bad for the corporations.
    You Make Your Own Luck

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    But if i have a prescription but chose to buy them from Canada...?

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    Doxycycline is an old off patent antibiotic, it costs about 30 Baht at most Thai pharmacies.

    Diane Shattuck filled a prescription in December for a generic antibiotic called doxycycline. With insurance, she paid $4.30 for 60 pills at a CVS store in Orange. She returned at the end of February to refill her prescription. This time, she was told her cost for the drug would be about $165.Mar 7, 2013
    When a drug costs 30 times what it once did -

    latimes articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/07/business/la-fi-lazarus-20130308

    Lately there have been even worse examples.

    Of course if Thailand is stupid enough to sign onto the TPP the cost here will rise too.

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