Legal Viagra in drug stores sells less then recently legalized but still hard to get medical Marijuana?
According to a report by the independent financial firm See Change Strategy LLC, the market for medicinal marijuana is already $1.7 billion a year – rivaling the sales figures for Viagra – despite being legally available to buy in stores in only seven American states. Medicinal marijuana sales: Could they dwarf Viagra?|CBS
And despite the still high prices of Viagra. Or maybe because Viagra still is so expensive that many cannot afford it? In the US, there still is no generic Viagra (Sildenafil Citrate) for sale.
Finland is host this week to a so called Viagra dog called Springer from the Netherlands. He is, however, no ordinary sniffer hound. In addition to detecting various narcotics he also specializes in uncovering consignments of fake Viagra. Viagra Dog Sniffs Out Fake Medicines
Interesting. A dog can tell the difference between true and fake Viagra?
Of course not. Certainly the dog is trained to sniff Viagra. But not much legitimate original Pfizer Viagra comes in the mail from foreign countries. And a large percentage of it is legal. In India legal generic Viagra, produced by large phamaceutical companies, can be had for pennies. In India it is probably more expensive to custom-produce fake Viagra then to just buy wholesale lots of the real thing Sildenafil Citrate, the generic version of Viagra.
Finns purchase some 44 million euros of fake drugs and medicines annually most of which are ordered via the internet and sent by air mail.
Finnish customs are engaging in a special campaign aimed at detecting fake drugs and Springer is their star performer. It’s his duty to look out for the potency drug Viagra from the mountain of post.
This is similar to the ethical problems of the illegal music and movie download industry.
People want to get products more cheaply, or more easily (no doctor’s prescription, no embarrassment at the pharmacy). On the other hand, does Pfizer deserve the enormous profit for the scientific feat of having found this amazing drug?
European Union confiscates generic medicine in transit from India to third world countries. Life saving medicines, and also Viagra.
India plans to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization alleging that the European Union allowed big pharmaceutical companies to use the bloc’s tough patent laws to have national customs agencies detain generic drugs in transit to developing countries, according to India’s commerce secretary.
On more than 20 occasions since late last year, border inspectors in the Netherlands and Germany have held up Indian medicines used to treat AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, heart conditions and other ailments, saying they violated patent laws in the EU, although the drugs weren’t intended for sale there, according to EU and Dutch customs officials …
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