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on Twitter and via RSS  Drug Companies Fight Maine's Efforts to
Let Residents Buy from Canada  BANGOR, Maine (CN) - Maine
enacted a law to make it easier for residents to buy
prescription drugs from neighboring Canada, and the pharmacy and
pharmaceutical industry responded with a lawsuit calling it
unconstitutional.  The industry claims Maine's "Importation
Law," approved in June and set to take effect Oct. 9, poses
"serious health risks to consumers" and violates the Foreign
Commerce Clause and the Supremacy Clause.  The plaintiffs
scrupulously avoid the word "profits" in the 27-page federal
lawsuit.  Lead plaintiff Charles Ouellette is the owner-operator
of a pharmacy in Fort Kent.  Joining as plaintiffs are the Maine
Pharmacy Association, the Maine Society of Health-System
Pharmacists, the Retail Association of Maine, the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America, and Amelia Arnold, a
pharmacist in Augusta.  Source: Courthouse News