I'm starting to think that it's ridiculous that RC suppliers are unresearched chemicals that are active in the sub-mg range in the first place.
I understand that people will always be there to buy anything new, and anything uncommon will undoubtably sell. We're all curious.
Even with these shady businesses, the RC vendors must really be foolish if they think that they can sell something so potent and not expect someone to take an uncertain dose and have an adverse reaction.
They're quite happy for us to be used as lab rats.
I believe the issues are much more complicated. As has been repeatedly pointed out, these chemicals are not typically sold as being for human consumption. That's to say, vendors are quite happy to sell you chemicals to test in your lab rats. Chemical companies (outside of the "RC" business) do sometimes make mistakes, and it is often up to the researcher to discover them and protect themselves appropriately from the potential consequences. In contrast, pharmaceuticals manufacture requires multiple levels of quality assurance to make sure this sort of thing doesn't ever happen.
The problem here is that people are ordering and consuming chemicals that were not manufactured with these additional quality controls in place. Lacking the proper equipment and
expertise to assess the quality on their own, they (often unknowingly) ingest materials of unknown composition.
There is something sadly ironic about all of this: The premise upon which (food and) drug regulation was first based upon (see the Food and Drugs act of 1906), was that the consumer had no assurances about the identity of the products they bought. Back then, opium was legal and in common use as a household medicine, but unscrupulous vendors often sold mislabeled or contaminated opium that killed people.
I really don't see vendors as being any more irresponsible than the users themselves. Many vendors act simply as resellers for a product. Such a product could be produced by a supplier who has no idea that the product will be ingested by humans. Given the gray market status of the products' (which will continue to be gray as long as they aren't regulated by, e.g. the FDA in the U.S), there is really no way to ensure that vendors comply with any particular quality specifications.
Looking on the bright side, I think it's remarkable how infrequent permanent damage and loss of life occur due to psychedelic research chemicals considering the number of untrained and careless people that handle and ingest them. Bluelight has played a positive role in encouraging safe behaviors, as this case clearly demonstrates. Perhaps if the Internet existed in 1906, we (in the U.S.) wouldn't have needed a Food and Drugs Act. Ultimately, one is responsible for their actions whether or not they were carried out in ignorance.