babbabuee said:
Papucho, I'm not a Mexican lawyer, but I'd be willing to bet money that it is NOT legal to posses gear in mexico without a valid Mexican prescription. Where did you get your information from? I would sure hope that you are 100% correct before you advise this guy to go down there and not even worry about possesing gear. If you do a search on this site, I'm sure you will read several stories of guys that have been stopped for illegal possesion of gear.
The posesion of gear it's not described as an offense in the federal code of legal procedures, nor it's contemplated in any of the states' own legal procedures codes.
Although possesion may or not be legal, if it's not contemplated as a crime by the state's legal code, you cannot be arrested, nor prosecuted if found in possesion of such substance, this way the worst situation would be that you, could be deprived of your gear, anyway, ist's not written in any legislature that you must produce a valid Mexican prespcription anytime you are in possesion of gear, as a matter of fact the only individual who can ask for such (in Mexican territory) is the person who will provide you with the substance, and this person will (in most cases) keep the prescription to have proof that such substance was sold to a valid prescription, this is done to prevent you from going to different places with the same prescription, and this doesn't have gear in mind, the concern for the Public Health Bureu was drugs used to treat problems related to mental conditions, gear just came as a target of opportunity.
I know You've heard stories, and I know they really happened, but I also know some legal aspects of gear (as any former federal agent would), and I tell you, if you let them, they will play you, and threat you to take you to jail, (but what are the chances of running with a cop at the drugstore) and if they do, it's only to find that, there's no punishment prescribed for your "crime", maybe you could be fined, but then it would take a very clever DA with a lot of time in his hands to try to come up with something.....
But then, it's wiser to get a prescription down here if you think you could get in any trouble, or you can just go to a vet pharmacy and get whatever you want without any kind of paper or order (Xcept the money of course).
http://wwwenglish.pgr.gob.mx/narco/drogas.html
http://www.deporte.org.mx/eventos/on2003/01paginas/04atletas/dopaje.htm