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by runnerup 1378 days ago
I like it for the criminal options it facilitates. I don’t personally agree with being unable to import affordable medicine (non-domestic brand generics which weren’t produced in an FDA-approved facility) from India/Turkey/etc and I use bitcoin to facilitate buying the medicines I need from pharmacies which don’t require doctors prescriptions. It saves me a boatload of money and helps me greatly in managing my health. Or to get around the current widespread pharmaceutical shortages which continue since Hurricane Maria destroyed a lot of pharmaceutical production infrastructure in Puerto Rico (e.g. bacteriostatic water).

I also am largely okay with people using it for personal quantities of controlled substances, even though I do not use it for that personally. Sometimes these are for legitimate medicinal purposes as well (for example, schedule 2 TRT and HRT drugs)