[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 <kspainkat_private>
To: declanat_private
Subject: Re: FC: Maine's attorney general crusades against online pharmacies
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010731134157.02192ec0at_private>
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>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: declanat_private, politechat_private
From: "Michael F. Reusch" <reuschat_private>
Subject: Re: FC: Maine's attorney general crusades against online
pharmacies
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010731134157.02192ec0at_private>
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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