[petermcneeley]

Not an Anachist but I wonder how much of the danger here is due to the law. Ideally they would simply be selling the epipencils and doing testing etc but there is no way they would be able to do this. So instead the best they can do is create DIY kits.

I wonder how far they can legally push the DIY kit. Can they ship you supplies with the kit? Can they ship you expresso-like packs for your DIY machine?

[mastazi]

This reminds me of vaping in Australia: since vaping liquids containing nicotine are illegal, people make their own liquid by mixing nicotine-free vaping liquids (which are legal) with nicotine extracted from products such as Nicorette (which are also legal) - unfortunately some just go back to cigarettes rather than going through all that trouble.

Luckily, I didn't go back to the stinkies - I never smoked again (I also quit vaping after a while, quitting vaping is not hard because it's not nearly as addictive as ciggies are).

[pessimizer]

They should just call them nutritional supplements so they'll be completely unregulated for either efficacy or safety.

[rootusrootus]

Supplements aren't unregulated. They're treated as food. And I'd bet there's some bit of regulation somewhere that says you can't arbitrarily label a medicine as a supplement.

[pessimizer]

They're unregulated as a matter of law until there are reports of injury. Unlike food, there's no requirement that the manufacturing adhere to any kind of standard, or that the contents of the supplement match the ingredient list.

[Qem]

Well, if people can even successfully defend against murder charges if they acted in self-defense, to preserve one's own life, why should they not be able to defend against piracy/drug laws if the alternative is death? Some medicines are too expensive, in absence of a proper public health system, and being unable to pay means certain death to some people.