U.S. imports everything but prescription drugs

HELENA, Mont., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- It makes no sense the United States imports cattle, hogs and logs from Canada, but not prescription drugs, says Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer.

"Local pharmacists should be allowed to re-import safe, affordable prescription drugs from Canada, where American-made, U.S. taxpayer-subsidized medicine is sold for as little as half the U.S. retail price," Schweitzer said in the weekly Democratic radio address Saturday.

"For five years, the government "has had the ability to lower the prescription drug cost for every person in America by as much as 50 percent. In five years, they've not delivered. Since they continue to sit on the sidelines, states have no choice but to do it for themselves."

According to Schweitzer, a top U.S. Food and Drug Administration official said lasat year that "there has never been a single documented case of an unsafe prescription drug coming across the border from Canada," CNN reported.