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Ken Cooke
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Question: What's the craziest thing you bought from a Baja pharmacist?
This thread is gonna be fun.
My buddy Ross was celebrating his 40th B-Day, and his Girlfriend wanted to really party. So, he asked me to bring back a 4 pack of Levitra and that
he would pay me later.
Inside of the Pharmacy, eyebrows raised when I walked up asking for a box of Levitra. When I told the man behind the counter, "It's not for me...It's
for a friend..." everyone working in the Pharmacy broke out laughing. 
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DENNIS
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Years ago, my friend who has lived here for thirty years and speaks zero Español with a thick South Carolina accent, went into a drug store and tried
to buy condoms. He tried to explain his desired purchase in his habit of raised volumn but it fell on deaf ears. The clerk, awestruck and confused
for sure, handed my friend a bag of M+Ms in hopes it would stop the attack.
He bought them and left the store.
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BMG
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M&M's actually work the same way
as a condom. Safe sex with an M&M can be achieved by simply having the lady hold a single M&M tightly between her knees.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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DENNIS
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The birth control pill that melts in your mouth...not in your hand.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
This thread is gonna be fun.
My buddy Ross was celebrating his 40th B-Day, and his Girlfriend wanted to really party. So, he asked me to bring back a 4 pack of Levitra and that
he would pay me later.
Inside of the Pharmacy, eyebrows raised when I walked up asking for a box of Levitra. When I told the man behind the counter, "It's not for me...It's
for a friend..." everyone working in the Pharmacy broke out laughing.
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Brings back memories as a kid of buying condoms in a drugstore .... it never was for
me. Never purchased the other, my doctor gives me tons of Levitra and Cialas
samples. Not that they are for me. CaboRon
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
my doctor gives me tons of Levitra and Cialas samples. |
OK but, just remember what happens after four hours.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
my doctor gives me tons of Levitra and Cialas samples. |
OK but, just remember what happens after four hours. |
That IS a scary disclaimer....
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Loretana
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The craziest thing I ever bought from a farmacia....
The Husband and I got into a "Chinese fire drill" back in '86, just off Punta Lobos over some yellowfin tuna.
Well....I caught a treble hook in the back of my knee, it went in clean, and I got a little worried as we drove back in. I needed minor surgery to get
the hook out.
We went to the farmacia on Juarez, and that lovely gal lent us her dykes to snap the hook off and then sold us a dose of tetanus serum (from her
trusty refrigerator) and a syringe.
Husband promptly pantsed me and injected my tuckus. (Eagle Scout) 
Some customers waiting for their larga distancia call to go through were totally entertained!! 
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."
-Nikola Tesla
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bacquito
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
This thread is gonna be fun.
My buddy Ross was celebrating his 40th B-Day, and his Girlfriend wanted to really party. So, he asked me to bring back a 4 pack of Levitra and that
he would pay me later.
Inside of the Pharmacy, eyebrows raised when I walked up asking for a box of Levitra. When I told the man behind the counter, "It's not for me...It's
for a friend..." everyone working in the Pharmacy broke out laughing.
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bacquito
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BAJACAT
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Once I try to buy hypodermic neddles for my grandmother who was diabetic and the attendant thought I was some kind of drug addict and toll me NO you
can have neddles,I left with my tail betewen my legs, and toll my Granny that they don't have any
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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BajaBruno
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I pulled a something in my back recently, called my buddy the doc and asked what I should take for it. "Valium," he said, "best and cheapest muscle
relaxer there is."
You can buy anything at a Mexican pharmacy in my experience, so I asked for 6 valium. "No," she said, I need a prescription from an MD. What? I
thought, did I suddenly enter a space warp and leave the Land of the Free?
A trusted local said that Pres. Calderon had changed all that and now you need a prescription for any drug the US requires a prescription for. Is
that true?
Christopher Bruno, Elk Grove, CA.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBruno
I pulled a something in my back recently, called my buddy the doc and asked what I should take for it. "Valium," he said, "best and cheapest muscle
relaxer there is."
You can buy anything at a Mexican pharmacy in my experience, so I asked for 6 valium. "No," she said, I need a prescription from an MD. What? I
thought, did I suddenly enter a space warp and leave the Land of the Free?
A trusted local said that Pres. Calderon had changed all that and now you need a prescription for any drug the US requires a prescription for. Is
that true? |
Unfortunitely they are tightening it up. Several times when porting in Ensanada I could only get them in one pharmacy with out a script. In PV was
the best deal one hundred brand name for 35 dollars US plus the twenty dollars for the doc next door. Last fall in Cabo the pharmica wanted one
hundred dollars for a hundred and fourty dollars for the doc.
There are over fifty Americans in jail in Baja California at this time for holding prescription drugs without a prescription, the
Mexican gov takes this very seriously.
One particulary sad tale is the arrest four years ago of a Gringa who had a scrip for oxyconton back home and ordered over a hundred of
these highly addictive pain relievers. She was detained and sentenced to eighteen years in prison. She didn't introduce her US perscription at the
trial and so (under MX law) had no grounds for appeal. She also should have gotten a script from a Mexican doctor to be entirely legal while in MX.
Very sad.
So get a perscription , it's probably cheaper anywhere than for a Gringo in Cabo San Lucas.
Good Luck, and Stay Legal, CaboRon
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Iflyfish
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Mrsfish and I got some of that Baja liquor that comes in the shape of a woman's body. We had a blast discussing which one of us should take it,
supposed to be aphrodisiac. I don’t know about that, but sure like that bottle.
Iflyfish
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Oso
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When I was a stoont at U. of the Americas in the 60's, all manner of "study aids" for all-night cram sessions were readily available without
prescription, from little green "Dexies" to "Black Beauties" AKA "Amfetamina 20", black capsules that would keep you wired like a power grid for 3
days straight. The cough suppressant Romilar was available in tablets instead of syrup. With the right combo of other substances, a few of these
would produce a golden toned world of Euphoria. Abusers were known as "Rollo Heads" and developed a distinctive walk which looked like they had one
foot on the sidewalk and the other in the gutter. A few friends of mine got really strung out on some kind of painkiller designed for terminal cancer
patients. I think they're dead now. Maybe tightening up is a good thing.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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thebajarunner
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Farmacia scam
It works like this.
Buy too large a quantity of prescription stuff, without the paperwork and as you exit the shop the guy that sold it to you is on the phone to his
local street cop.
Cop separates you from the drugs, and from some mordida (assuming you do not go to jail)
Drugs go back to the store, to get sold again,
and Gringo goes home sans drugs, sans $$ paid the farmacia and sans the mordida.
Moral...... Don't do it!!!
Last year in Quito I needed to buy 20 Valium tabs- I take fhem occasionally for migraines.
They said, 'sorry, cannot have them without a doctor's prescription."
Our host, the president of a local university said, " if you pay the $15 for the prescription then you get the drugs, and they will go and get a
prescription for the file."
So, I bot 30 tabs for about $10, $15 for the doc I never met, and outta there.
Ah, Latin America, you gotta love it!
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fdt
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A friend went to the drug store and asked for black condoms, the farmacist asked why he wanted them black and the friend replied that his compadre had
died and he needed to go pay his respects to his comadre.
Another friend went to the farmacia and asked for 10 condoms, the farmacist asked him, why don't you just get it laminated?.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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BMG
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Just a joke!
When I was younger I had a hot date for later that evening. Who knows, might get lucky so better to be prepared. I was too embarrassed to ask the
young lady at the counter for some condoms so I asked for the pharmacist working in the back. He came and helped me and we chatted a bit while I made
the purchase. Later that night when I went to pick up my date and a man answered the door. How was I to know that my date's dad was a pharmacist?
I think the world is run by C- students.
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thebajarunner
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an old joke at that
| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
When I was younger I had a hot date for later that evening. Who knows, might get lucky so better to be prepared. I was too embarrassed to ask the
young lady at the counter for some condoms so I asked for the pharmacist working in the back. He came and helped me and we chatted a bit while I made
the purchase. Later that night when I went to pick up my date and a man answered the door. How was I to know that my date's dad was a pharmacist?
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various versions of that joke have been floating around the net for some time now....
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Mango
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Once in Guadalajara I had a really bad cold and a nasty cough. I went to the local pharmacy and bought some Robitussin.
I was pretty used to the stuff here in the states; so, I just took the usual amount, maybe a little more because it was a very bad cough that hurt. I
felt much better; but, after about 20 minutes the cough returned with a furry, so I took a little more.
Little did I know the stuff was much more concentrated in Mexico than it was here in the States and soon enough I was hallucinating. It was not what
I would call a good time. I became very confused and worrisome. Everything seemed darker and my ears rang.
I started to have a panic attack on the bed in my hotel room. I began to repeatedly read the instructions and the warnings over and over again as I
tried to determine what the proper dose was. The effect of the drug on me made me very confused, forgetful, and unsure what to do. Eventually, I
determined that I took way too much and needed to treat it as a poisoning.
Worried that I would do some long term damage to my body or the maid would find me dead in the room the next day, I went to the bano and put my finger
down my throat to make myself expel the medicine.
I felt much better almost immediately.
Now I am very careful about reading the instructions on medicines bought in Mexico. They may be packaged the same, but often they can be much
stronger than the same product here in the states. Be careful.
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vacaenbaja
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I was in a pharmacy when a young man came in and as quitely as possible tried asked the clerk for some condoms.
The pharmacy was filled with women milling about.
Well the pharmacist that worked there
had the habit of taking over sales initiated by the clerks, because after all HE was the pharmacist. Trouble was that he was also quite deaf..... So
when he came over and loudly
asked what it was that the young man wanted the request
was made in a low secretive voice followed by a loud QUE!?
once again but a little louder came the request, followed by an even luoder HUH?!! then finally ther reply was made that the pharmacist could hear,
but yet low enough that no one knew.. yet. Followed by an exceptionally loud exclamation of
understanding by the pharmacist OH YOU WANT RUBBERS!!
the young man quietly and quicky exited the pharmacy as
all eyes were looking around to see who was buying the
rubbers. No sale was made by the confussed Pharmacist.
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