Now the prince won't get his medicine in time to deposit the money into my bank account!

...Again reinforcing the idea that you should source your purchases as close to home as possible... and from a company who has earned your trust and values your trust... Maybe not Chrysler or GM at the moment.

Just another reason to only smoke medicine grown in California, [health.groups.yahoo.com]

Pharmaceuticals poison and kill, medical marijuana heals, is natural and best of all, "Made In America".

Yes we cannabis!

@bxbrett: You do know that medicinal marijuana is also , you know, medicine. In fact, there are strains of cannibus that are extremely potent and can cause very severe reactions. But go on, keep thinking that stuff grown from the ground is less dangerous than manufactured stuff.....

@bxbrett: Something tells me you'd sorely regret using marijuana to treat malaria.

@bxbrett: Far out, maaaan!

@Mecharine: can you direct us to some articles? I'm not being argumentative, I've just never heard that before

@GreatWhiteNorth: That can be quite difficult with perscriptions, especially considering the limitations placed on which brands the insurance company will pay for

PBS ran a NatGeo Doc a couple nights ago called "Illicit" that was all about the manufacture of fake products. They traveled with a fake designer bag purchased in New York to the streets of China, and discussed the importance of Italy and the Crimora in illicit trade. It was really infuriating to see the devastating effect that trade of this nature can have on people when it involves medicine.

I'm glad they caught it when they did, that's a lot better than in Brazil when fake Glycerin that contained Antifreeze made its way into cough medicine that made many people sick.

I went to dollar tree this last weekend (long story) and saw a whole aisle of $1 pharmaceuticals - vitamins, 'pepto', antaicid, 'tums', aspirin, diet pills, energy pills, sleep aids, etc.

I still have the willies just thinking about it.

@bxbrett: Cool story bro.

Should just label the drugs "Made in Asia." That would cover China, India and just about everyone else.

Well even Chinese counterfeiters know that Made in China is like having a scull and crossbones on the label.

@bxbrett: No wonder marijuana is illegal! The government clearly wants us to continue dying of cancer, AIDS, and every other disease that this panacea can obliterate. It’s the only way to control us. Fight the power!

I wish all medicines were required by law to label where they were manufactured. I recently started taking Zantac (for heartburn). The first generic bottle I bought said manufactured in India (which I didn't notice until I had already been taking it for a while). The next time I went to the store, I went for the nongeneric bottle, but it only said it was distributed by Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals- not where it was made.

@Gramin: Probably be better to simply label the drugs "Not made in this country" at this point.

"In this case, the dangerous products were fake antimalarial tablets destined for Nigeria. 642,000 people would have been affected had the Nigerian government not discovered the fake drugs and intercepted them."

And in an unrelated stories: a Nigerian businessman has cornered the market for blue food coloring and sales of counterfit Viagra from somewhere in West Africa seem to be on the rise...

Is it any surprise that the Chinese sent this fake stuff to one of the crookedest countries on the planet. Obviously someone didn't get a big enough bribe for the fake pills to have been siezed.

@bxbrett: Umm...I have a friend who has a stomach condition that makes him suceptible to ulcers. Will weed help that? A relative friend has hypothyroidism. Will weed help that?

I'm trying to avoid the ad hominem comment, but you're the reason medical marijuana doesn't get a fair shake and why its not being de-criminalized. Weed supporters are often the worst spokespersons for their cause. Go play with your ceramic/glass drill bits and let the adults talk.

@GreatWhiteNorth: And then we'll just get salmonella poisoning.

@AstroPig7: Well, it's true that it's still illegal because the war on drugs makes them money.

@whatdoyoucare: It's funny, we have a law that says manufacturers must label where our clothes are made, but not our medicines. Seems kind of backwards, no? Guess who has the larger/stronger lobby?

"Between 2001 and 2007, more than 30 Indian and Chinese companies were banned in Nigeria for exporting fake drugs to the country."

Jeez. That was genuinely news to me--that the fake drug industry is this big a deal. No wonder Nigeria tests the stuff itself.

@ponycyndi: Why is it a "long story" that you went to dollar tree? It's just a damn store.

@ponycyndi: Also dollar stoors get name brand stuff all the time.

@bxbrett: While there might be proof that marijuana can help patients suffering from schizophrenia and Alzheimer's, I'm pretty sure it's pretty irrelevant in a discussion about counterfeit malaria medicine.@

Mecharine: I'd like to see some articles about these strains that cause severe reactions, cause I've never heard of it before.

@whatdoyoucare: So ... ahd you known the Zantac was made in India before you took it, you would've ... what, not taken it?

@Gramin: india has a developed pharmaceutical industry and a reputation to protect, china does not.

@GreatWhiteNorth: Awww, Chrysler values my trust and begs so well! Just yesterday they sent me a really, really long letter explaining all about how a "structured bankruptcy" works and included a thousand dollar coupon for a new Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep vehicle!

Then I read the fine print and it excluded Vipers so, no thanks.

@nakedscience: I haven’t seen a good analysis of this hypothesis, but wouldn’t the government make at least as much money by legalizing marijuana and then taxing it? Cigarette taxes are a major source of revenue for some states.

@AstroPig7: Especially coupled with the money that will probably be saved by not having to enforce the laws and pay for jail intake etc.

@U-235: Actually marijuana has been found to have an antimalarial effect. Here's a few articles from a few months ago, two studies are mentioned, [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] and [thctimes.com]

@GreatWhiteNorth:

Yep! That's why, as a Canadian, I only eat corn produced by Monsanto and raw milk I get out of the cow myself.

"China still cool! You take drugs later! Later!"

@floraposte: "Between 2001 and 2007, more than 30 Indian and Chinese companies were banned in Nigeria for exporting fake drugs to the country."

Those were the ones caught...

@Kogenta: or, just label them "Made"

@Mecharine: Yup. Death by Munchies!

It's got to be a pretty sleazy crook who'd fake two-cent pills that kill people who are the most disadvantaged on the planet.

@econobiker: Pheh. Pikers. A multinational would have patented the color blue in Nigeria.
"Pretty sky, isn't it, ma'am? Now PAY up!"

@econobiker: Those were the ones that didn't pay a big enough bribe. (Today's lesson in cynical concludes.)

There's a Nigerian government that does something like this? Wow. Why don't they stop scammers?

@ponycyndi: Don't forget the $1 pregnancy tests! Get three! One for each of the potential daddies.

My latest and greatest dollar store/poison train purchase is a can of foot spray that is pressurized with industrial-grade propane, and has that industrial propane smell.

@Trai_Dep: Or in an industrial accident trying to build a a Rube Goldberg 10 chamber glass bong

@xamarshahx:
[www.businessweek.com]

Yeah, they seem to be doing a good job at protecting their reputation.

@ChuckECheese: They get three so the third can be used as the tie-breaker. Every time I see those pregnancy tests I wonder what kind of idiot would buy them.

@myasir: Of course their are going to be these types of situations, but outside of the United States, a lot of countries get their drugs from India and even the Clinton Foundation works with India to provide drugs around the world. As for our drugs, a lot of them come from Mexico, not the United States.

@ponycyndi:

Dollar store tooth whitener FTW

@reuvenb: well played, sir

@ponycyndi: Actually, I bought some Sudafed from Dollar General a couple weeks ago. Exact same inner packaging as Walgreen's generic brand, different outer box. $3 savings.