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by digianarchist 235 days ago
$450 CAD I believe.

US consumers would have to travel to Canada for injections which isn't practical unless you live on a border town.

It's unlikely to meet the bar for personal importation as you say.

That probably won't stop people from trying. There's already a huge market for illegal compounds and GPL-1 drugs are available alongside the usual testosterone and other steroids.
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rootusrootus 235 days ago
If you have a prescription from a provider in Canada, the limit for personal use is 90 days. As long as it is a legal drug in the US -- which I don't think necessarily includes that it's patented here, just that it's approved by the FDA.

> There's already a huge market for illegal compounds and GPL-1 drugs are available alongside the usual testosterone and other steroids.

The peptide and oils markets are both big, but largely separate -- the peptides folks don't seem to want to be associated with oils. Within peptides, GLP1s definitely dominate, though the other options are pretty popular. In my experience it seems like GLP1s are kind of a "gateway peptide" -- a lot of folks start with a GLP1 on the gray market, and then start to branch out and try the other options available.

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digianarchist 235 days ago
You're probably right. I scanned the FDA website and wasn't sure how easy it would be to meet the requirements for personal medicine importation [0].

As a Canadian national in the US I wouldn't even attempt doing this in the current political climate.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...

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dawnerd 235 days ago
Flights to Canada can be pretty cheap too. Less than the cost of one month so if you flew out every 90 days you’d still come out ahead. Practically not enough people will do this of course. Would be great for people in the border towns though.
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eek2121 235 days ago
I don't know about that, Canada is a beautiful country. If I were on the meds, I wouldn't hesitate to fly out for a day trip every 90 days.

Also, let's be real, anyone in the northeast could be there in a few hours driving. New York City is about 7 hours away from Ottawa, for example.

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doubled112 235 days ago
Detroit and Windsor are a single bridge crossing away from each other. Sarnia and Port Huron too.

I’ve ended up at the border crossing from Niagara Falls to Buffalo by accident before. I was glad when they let me make a U-turn.

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digianarchist 235 days ago
There's a tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. Faster than the bridge sometimes because no trucks.
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