laws are placed on guns.Selling prescription drugs online has also become extremely popular within a short period of time. It is so popular in fact; the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has just set up a new board that certifies online pharmacies and calls them Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites. To date, there are only four such sites. They are: CVS.com, Drugstore.com, MerckMedco.com, and PlanetRx.com. This is not to say that no other websites are safe, just that the Food and Drug Administration does not accept them. People are advised to buy only from the four acceptable websites. One problem with online pharmacies is that there are only four approved ones. Any others may be potentially dangerous. These other websites, though they may be completely legal, and they may be only selling prescription drugs, might not be safe. They don’t carry your medical information- only your physician does. Most prescription drugs have precautions and drug interactions making them unsafe for some people. A simple trip to the doctor’s office may take the risk out of these websites. This view is easily argued by people with little time on their hands to go to the pharmacist or the doctor’s office. They allow people to just fill out a simple form online to order all their prescriptions. For the time being, making the short trip to your pharmacist may be the safest way to go.Another item that goes along with prescription drugs is the sale of blood and human organs online. Recently, there have been several sales and auctions of organs online. One sale in particular, was recently terminated by Yahoo! through which the sale was being made. A man attempted to auction of one of his kidneys. The bidding reached $500,000 when it was called off. Selling organs is, and has been illegal since 1984. Many people are against the federal law that bans the sale of human organs. One argument is “blood can be sold, so why can’...
