In the 1980's Canadian Health Food Stores as well as Naturopathic Doctors who stocked their own supplements had to sell Melatonin "under the counter" to patients. Health Food store owners would do border runs and buy it from Walmart in the US and charge Canadians four to five times the price. In essence making themselves drug mules. It's all bent. Just like motorcycle insurance is not affordable to many Ontarians (say goodbye to liter bikes altogether), they are telling us what and how much we can buy of supplements now. DHEA, which will keep most of you 40 something guys looking 40 into your 60's, 70's is very hard to get now and is the next supplement on the Canada ban list. Yet you can buy it at Walmart in the US. They [the Canadian Government] don't want you healthy. This is the reason most of our seniors are on so many pharmaceutical drugs. I had one patient, a former teacher on 35 prescription drugs! Her MD caused her colon to explode. She now wears a colostomy bag. Canada is becoming a communistic country that tells you what to do. If you cross the US border to get (and pass on to patients) affordable supplements, you could (and very likely would) be charged as a drug mule and jailed.
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It's clear you're actually interested in importing this stuff for commercial purposes rather than for personal use, and that's what has you ****** off. It's not a question of personal freedom but of commercial freedom.
It makes sense for you to consider moving to the US since you agree more closely with the way they decide things down there, but I'm sure if you ran a health supplement business in the US you'd still disagree with some of their rules of what merchandise you are or aren't allowed to sell. That disagreement is just a natural consequence of two informed opinions on a suitably complex subject. The two will never completely agree. I'm sure you have disagreement with others within your profession. That doesn't mean Canadian rules are "ridiculous", it's just two different philosophies of regulation that are being applied in two different countries.
If you want to know what's ridiculous, it's believing that
"they [the Canadian Government] don't want you healthy". Yeah, OK Mr. Conspiracy Theorist. You have the
freedom to be wrong about stuff like this, and it's nice to see you exercise that
freedom on a regular basis in this forum.
The reality is that if we applied your more Libertarian opinion to all matters of public safety, that would shift the burden more on consumers to know what they're doing and less on government. There's advantages and disadvantages to doing that.
Imagine if that philosophy is applied to all foods and drugs, housing, vehicles, toys, tools, household products, services, everything. We'd each have to develop that same level of knowledge to ensuring our safety in all those areas of life that we deal with every day. It would be a huge burden to know everything about the safety of everything around us. For most of us, it would be impossible to ensure our own safety on all these matters. Modern life is just too complicated for that much in-depth knowledge on every given subject. Different governments relieve us from some of that burden to varying degrees, and while that opens the door for us to disagree with them at every turn, it also
frees us from having to become experts in every field, so we can focus our efforts on whatever area of life we like to specialize in.
It just so happens that you have advanced knowledge of the complex subject of vitamins and supplements so you have your own opinion of what's safe and unsafe. Good for you, you have the personal
freedom to exploit your knowledge to your own benefit by importing the stuff you think you need. The fact that you can't make that same decision for everybody who would happen to wander through your health store is just a consequence of living in a society that safeguards its citizens as best it can. Of course it will never be 'perfect' by anybody's standards.
