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As the kids say, "Dude, this is America." Why would merely having a prescription and a reasonable excuse help you with the border patrol? Maybe you'd get a sympathetic guy that day and maybe you wouldn't.

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Because I'm pretty sure you can bring pretty much any prescribed drug in its labelled dispensed container — even the Desoxyn! — with you over the border into the US. So it'd be weird if THC was an exception to that; and doubly weird if just having ever been prescribed THC was worse for you than literally carrying a pill bottle full of meth in your bag.

>you can bring pretty much any prescribed drug in its labelled dispensed container — even the Desoxyn! — with you over the border into the US.

>So it'd be weird if THC was an exception to that

As others in the thread have already mentioned, Desoxyn is schedule 2, while Cannabis is federally schedule 1 (with lower schedule number being more restricted).

So no, THC isn't an exception, it is a part of the same rule system. The one in which schedule 2 drugs have more legal privileges than schedule 1 drugs.

the active ingredient of desoxyn, methamphetamine is schedule 1.

Plenty of substances are dual scheduled, desoxyn is just most prominent example.

This doesn't appear to be true: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs...

Are you sure you're not getting it mixed up with MDMA or something?

This is where you are wrong, methamphetamine is schedule 2 in the US[0][1].

0. https://www.justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs5/5049/5049p.pdf

1. https://www.goodrx.com/methamphetamine/what-is

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