Comment · Thu, January 30, 2020
Just a reminder regarding customs laws:
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L3ul · 13 points
This is a reminder for people ordering nootropics in the Eastern Bloc: even if you think it's legal and you checked the relevant laws... it might not be.
I usually order nootropics internally, but this time I wanted to try Adrafinil and Coluracetam, products which I couldn't find in Romania, so I ordered from ND.
Checking the illicit drugs law and the prescription meds law, all seemed fine. Yet here I was, in front of the customs office, being told that I might be fined with up to 2000$ for an international order of high risk doping drugs according to an anti-doping law that no layman could've known about.
I asked for the law, read it and, well, ignorantia juris non excusat.
Adrafinil and most racetams are considered, according to the law's table, "high risk doping substances with atypical stimulent properties" along with amphetamine and cocaine (which are already restricted according to the illicit drugs law, so for what reason are those also included in the anti-doping law??)
From where did they get the idea that those nootropics are of the same high risk as cocaine?
I somehow talked them out of prosecuting because, let's be honest, the minimum wage in Romania is around…
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L3ul · 5 points
Thank you. I reported the issue to customers support since I managed to do a "return to sender". Hope it arrives back.
Regarding the word "nootropics" on the customs forms: it's futile. They usually open the packages here in Romania and the brand gives it away, sadly.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
If that's truly the case, the only way around it will be to ship from inside the EU. Then we would avoid Romanian customs altogether. I hope that someday we can accomplish that.