Marrakech Express: No Moroccan Babies Style

Reason number 34 we are happy in Marrakech:

We received a tip from friends that pharmaceuticals are inexpensive here.  Before, I had assumed there was some sort of aversion to birth control and/or condoms and/or anything sex.  No way would they provide means of preventing conception, I thought.  Or is that only Vatican City?

After Nuala spending a RIDICULOUS amount of money on buying "the pill" in the States and having it shipped to Prague, we decided to give it a try.  We walked into our local pharmacy and after about two minutes of deliberation, the three pharmacy attendants came out with a nearly identical product.

I won't disclose the amount we were paying for the pill in the States (sans insurance) but I will tell you that we got three months of prescription drugs for 95Dh.  Roughly 8€.

Yah.  Lessons learned:  it never hurts to ask.

Granted, who knows if it is just produced more cheaply, prices are not fixed through pharmaceutical company and government collusion, or if it is a result of foreign aid.  I don't know but I don't mind being the recipient of the way things are.