[wordup] Let me buy online and ingest whatever I want

[Adam Shand]

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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:23:48 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
To: politech at politechbot.com
Subject: FC: Karin Spaink: Let me buy online and ingest whatever I want

[Karin is an author and essayist who has been active in online free speech
battles. Forwarded with permission. --Declan]

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:41:48 +0200
From: Karin Spaink <kspaink at xs4all.nl>
To: declan at well.com
Subject: Re: FC: Maine's attorney general crusades against online pharmacies
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010731134157.02192ec0 at mail.well.com>

Declan,

For a forthcoming book I have actually *tried* to order lethal medicines
via the net. Now, I am a good researche and I know how to use the net. Yet
I found only three sites during a search that lasted 10 days at 14 hours a
day (at least). One was in Germany, one was in Southern Europe, one was in
Pakistan.

I actually ordered, in order to check whether they were frauds or not. The
Pakistani site failed to deliver, the other two turned out to be reliable.

So by now I have my lethal medicine. And I must say that I am happy to
have them: I suffer from multiple sclerosis and have no wishes to end up
fully paralysed. These sites have provided me with the means to do so in
due time, and it is my fucking *right* to kill myself if I want to.

The important thing is to have good & solid information on how to go about
killing yourself, not to close down the few sites where you can finally
get some decent pills that enable yuou a more or less decent death. Does
that prosecutor rather have me employ a shotgun, as do half of the
Americans who kill themselves?

http://www.bangornews.com/cgi-bin/article.cfm?storynumber=38602

> AUGUSTA — With more than half of Mainers telling pollsters they have
> access to the Internet, there is growing concern over Web-based "drug
> stores" that offer access to prescription drugs over the Net with
> little or no say from a doctor.
>
> "We're not talking about people filling their prescriptions over the
> Internet to try and get a lower price," said Maine Attorney General
> Steven Rowe. "The concern is sites that sell prescription drugs with
> no real consultation with a physician."

- K -
-- 

Another complication is that the subconscious mind is
always changin'. Like an encyclopaedia that keeps puttin'
out a whole new edition every day.
   - Haruki Murakami: The Hard-Boiled Wonderland

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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:52:11 -0400
To: declan at well.com, politech at politechbot.com
From: "Michael F. Reusch" <reusch at home.com>
Subject: Re: FC: Maine's attorney general crusades against online
   pharmacies
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010731134157.02192ec0 at mail.well.com>

Declan,

In NJ we are already doomed to be horny, bald and fat.

Regards,

     Michael

Source: http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/press/cydrug.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

March 30, 2000

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Salvato, Genene Morris (973) 504-6327

State Files Suit Against Cyber-Drugstores
For Alleged Violations Of Consumer Fraud Act

NEWARK- The State has filed suit against eight unlicensed online
pharmacies which unlawfully operated a variety of "cyber-drugstores"
selling prescription medications such as Viagra, the hair growth drug
Propecia and the obesity drug Xenical over the Internet, Attorney General
John J. Farmer, Jr. announced today.

[snip]

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[From someone involved in such issues. --DBM]

It would be MUCH better if it contained a provision prohibiting STATES from
regulating Internet pharmacies if they are in compliance with federal
law.  For an Internet pharmacy to have to comply with 50 different set of
regulations is absurd.
If you forward this, please remove my name.

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