Posted on 09/09/2004 8:02:53 AM PDT by Ramonan
David Andrews of Susanville was so confident buying prescription drugs in Mexico he stopped a police officer in Tijuana to ask for directions to the border. And so began his harrowing, 68-day journey through the Mexican legal system that has similarly ensnared untold numbers of Americans. Like others, the 22-year-old Andrews went looking for cheap medication, lured by border-town farmacias that seem anything but rigid or risky. What he got was jail time and a good scare - two months in a Mexican prison, sharing a 10-by-15-foot cell with 15 other inmates and giant bugs and no earthly idea what he'd done wrong.
I first began chronicling the Mexican prescription-drug story last March, with the unsuccessful efforts by Dawn Marie Wilson of San Diego to win release from a federal prison in Ensenada. The 49-year-old woman, a longtime boater in Baja California, was sentenced to five years after being stopped in April 2003 with a large supply of what she says was anti-seizure medication purchased in Tijuana. She did not have a Mexican doctor's prescription, as required by law. But David Andrews did. The 2000 Lassen High graduate did his homework on the Internet and had that base covered - or so he thought, as he set out for Tijuana with a friend June 4 to pick up more Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication. Why he felt compelled to get a Mexican doctor's prescription for more was, he says ruefully, a judgment error that "kind of goes with the disease."
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Put your beebers on stun mode
Never go south of the border, never, ever. Nada
Last line: "This opened my eyes to see how good I had it here in the U.S."
Mexico.
Some days suck more than others.
After a visit in jail from the U.S. Consulate's office, which gave the young men a list of attorneys, they were told by one lawyer: "$5,000 and you two can leave tonight, or you're going to be in jail for five years."
What a maroon! He's from California and he didn't know the Mexican officials love to bust gringos because bribery is the Mexican way of life and Americans are fat pidgeons to be squeezed?
And whatever you do, don't die in Mexico. Your already grieving family will have to pay a lot of money to get your corpse out of Mexico for burial in the U.S.
correctomundo
Just went down last Sat and got my 2 bottles of Kahlua and 2 orders of valium. Been doin' it for a couple of years now.
"This opened my eyes to see how good I had it here in the U.S."
Just amazing. It seems like some here are so pampered that the slightest inconvenience (such as having to pay for things) drives them nuts (the left.)
Sometimes it takes something like this to slap them back to reality.
Am I the only person who finds it odd that all these people going across the border to buy mexican prescription drugs are looking for often abused drugs like Xanax and Valium.
I know they had prescriptions in the US but they could be buying extra or something.
Maybe I'm just a jerk, I dunno.
Wonder if these guys drove a big green van across the border?
My husband will never take me to Mexico. The only thing he says about it is that it is a 3rd world country.
And the Mexicans are bringing all that kind of good, clean living right here to the good old USA.
In the past, we learned the hard way, always bribe a cop to
look after you and any vehicle you have. It was easier.
It sounds like the stay in the Mexican jail was just what the slacker needed to straighten up his life.
Keep packing those illegals into the US and we will not only be like Mexico...we will be Mexico
imo
Stupid kid!
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