Posted by galtin on September 23, 2001, at 15:08:36
In reply to Re: Posting policy, posted by Dr. Bob on September 23, 2001, at 14:25:49
> > if you don't feel comfortable with the sites posted then you should base your decision on that. If you decide in that direction, (and I'm hopeful that you won't) there will still be posters who ask for sites and give out their e-mail addresses so they will get the information anyway, I imagine. And I hope that will be okay?
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> Sorry, but if I didn't want people learning from this site how to do something illegal, then I think I'd have to say that asking for -- or offering to give out -- that information would *not* be OK, at least not here.
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> > Gee, that's too bad if we have to have a censored site here. One of the things I have liked here was the openess, the sense that everything was on the table to be discussed. It's hard for someone who's never been depressed to understand, the desperation that people have who's depression is not under control. That's what stimulates the discussions of foreign meds, and 3 posters that I know of have been helped by them.
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> I agree, it's too bad, but this site has already been "censored" for a long time. The question now is where to draw the line, not whether to draw one.
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> I understand that some people are desperate, but (1) I don't think the answer is necessarily to do something illegal, (2) if someone did decide to do that, they could ask elsewhere, and (3) discussion of the medications themselves would still be fine here.
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> Bob
This is a reasonable compromise on both philosophical and liability issues. After all, our purpose is to share information about the meds themselves, not how or where to get them. I haven't seen any posts extolling the pricing and service of, say, one drug store chain above another. Liability issues, unfortunately, must be cognizant of the worst case scenario--somebody dying from a medication obtained through information publicly exchanged on the site. At this point, legality concerns would be very much in the forefront. What site manager or sponsor wants to operate under this threat.As Bob says, there are other ways to get information on how to obtain renegade drugs sans script. The obvious one is to talk to knowledgeable posters off site. That leaves everybody else able to focus on the meds themselves, rather than their procurement. This is the site's primary purpose--why fool with it?
galtin
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