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Old Jun 21, 2015 | 5:57 am
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Originally Posted by acregal
Oxycodone is a class 2 substance in the US - it's not something that you can easily get and doctors have been sent to jail for writing too many prescriptions for it. The entire reason why this is a big thing is that she got busted smuggling in a highly addictive substance.
Exactly.

If she just shipped it and declared as Oxy, it couldn't be shipped in the first place. Somebody would have stopped her or at worst, at customs it would be stopped and be told you can't bring it into Japan.

The issue is she tried to smuggle it and declared it as a necklace.
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