[provenance]

The harm reduction activist claims the individual dealer isn’t at “fault” if the supply was laced after being passed around amongst other dealers. In that case, it would be more accurate to speak of the dealer’s intention, rather than responsibility.

[grugagag]

I don’t know about that line of logic, the dealer is responsible whether they laced the supply themsleves or not, if not fully at least partly for passing the drugs along. They could claim not knowing but that doesn’t make then any less responsible.

[provenance]

I may have worded it in a misleading way. What I meant was, if you’re sympathizing then speak of intent, since the dealer is still responsible, as you noted.

[boomboomsubban]

Is the convenience store responsible for customers getting smoking related illnesses? Or the grocery store if some flour they stock has salmonella?

[rejectfinite]

No but they must remove/stop selling the affected product. The vendor does a full recall ofc.

[icpmacdo]

There are indeed liabilities for products sold at convenience and grocery stores

[boomboomsubban]

I can't find an example of an individual store being liable for unknowingly selling a preprepared item that causes illness, though my search has hardly been thorough. Plenty of examples where they're selling in-house prepared deli items, but that'd be the equivalent of the dealer adding filler themselves.

And I've never heard of a seller being targeted for smoking related lawsuits.

[icpmacdo]

I asked chatGPT for a “ example of an individual store being liable for unknowingly selling a preprepared item that causes illness” and it gave me a non hallucinated one

[boomboomsubban]

If it's non-hallucinated, why not share it?