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Amazon skirts a lot of consumer protection laws for the sake of profit.

Pill presses are regulated in Canada. [0]

If you bring one into the country the government wants you to register that fact with them.

Amazon.ca doesn't even try to hide the fact that they sell pill presses. [1]

They're branded as "vitamin supplement devices" but they're definitely, obviously, pill presses.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/meeting-lega...

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=pill+press&ref=nb_sb_noss_2




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