On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 09:07:53PM -0600, Mirimir wrote: > On 08/28/2016 08:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 06:42:22PM -0600, Mirimir wrote: > >> On 08/28/2016 06:11 PM, juan wrote: > >>> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 17:13:27 -0600 > >>> Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> wrote:
> >>>> sugar with > >>>> lead acetate, just because it happens to cost less. That used to be > >>>> fairly common, back in the day. Or assholes spiking their "vodka" with > >>>> methanol. Or assholes spiking their "heroin" with fentanyl, or > >>>> whatever opiate agonist they can get cheapest. Or assholes spiking > >>>> their dried milk with melamine, to boost apparent protein content. > >>>> Etc etc etc. > >>>> > >>>> I suppose that AP could handle that. But many customers will get > >>>> fucked up before bids get high enough to take out sellers. Or we > >>>> could have private enforcement handle regulation. Regulation as a > >>>> service ;) > >>> > >>> > >>> Or counsumers could use some 'due diligence' > >> > >> Do you know how to test your sugar for lead, Juan? Or your dried milk > >> for melamine? Or your ethanol for methanol? > > > > No. But I do know folks who know how to, and whom I trust. I also know I > > am capable, if with a lot of research reading and learning, to be > > competent to do so. > > > > I also have faith that fully deregulated, or rather de-coerced, markets > > will have such voids amply filled. > > That's easy to say. But the solution would arguably be just as coercive > as government, from a sellers' perspective. Oh Mirimir! You make an amazing point!! "Please! Think of the poor sellers!" I really had not thought of them - seriously. I figured the market would, one way or another, "take care" of evil doers. But I guess you're right, I guess we could possibly see vigilante justice take hold and all the poor sellers will be lynched. I know! I know! How about we introduce a World Food And Drug Administration, to keep the lynching mobs at bay and protect all the poor sellers? Would that solve this problem? > > I hear (others say) that in Copenhagen clubs, patrons would rarely > > consider purchasing MDMA from any "street seller" ever - only from the > > club itself, and to top it off, these clubs also provide or sell > > "testing kits" to test either your own or the club's MDMA. > > That's a very specific example. There are just too many things to > > > We live a sheltered life in most of the West.. > > We do indeed. Be careful shopping for raw sugar in your tropical > mercado. Sometimes it's extra sweet, because they boiled it down in > copper vats, with lead soldered seams ;) Are you now saying that consumer prudence and a market for testing stuff might be A Good Thing (TM) ?
