Buying in Mexico then back to USA

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I used to make many trips to TJ when I lived in SoCal. Things changed after 9/11. Prior to 2001, the street in San Ysidro used to be littered with crushed oxy boxes from the many travelers who had brought them back through the gate without problems.
A few years ago I made the mistake of 'declaring' my trams and they were promptly confiscated and I was put on the search and detain list so next time I went I was detained again (they found nothing at that time). After that second incident I wrote a clear and well-composed letter to DHS explaining my chronic pain problem, my lack of insurance, and lo and behold, on the 3rd try (a couple more months later) I was no longer on the search and detain list. It's probably a miracle or dumb luck that someone read my letter and had the compassion to take me off the list, or perhaps it was temporary to begin with.

Okay so I have been to TJ a few times both before 9-11 and after and this is what I did.  I bring an empty US Script container for 90 tabs, I go to the other side and buy 90, punch them out of the blister packs and fill the bottle and don't say a thing.  I don't declare anything other than a belt or hat or some other cheap souvenir, no one ever questioned me.  I go to my car in the US parking lot, empty the US script bottle and do it again, Say 3 or 4 trips in a couple of days.  i figure that if they stop me I have a US prescription for what I have on me so what could they say?  I have not been in a couple of years because fear of the Cartel violence.  I figure the US customs doesn't care about less than 100 benzos, they are looking for the illicit street stuff which I don't have any use for anyway.

Went to Cancun a few years later and  went to a Dr. and asked for a script and she gave me a lecture about how they were no good for me... blah blah blah but gave me a script for 30.  Had a hard time filling it though.