footscrazy
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At the moment this service is completely pointless, in some ways I think it's an interesting idea that has some potential, but I have my doubts on how far this could ever go.
I've worked with premium text message companies for many years now, and early on a coworker and I discussed and looked into a pillreports by text service - where people could send in the stats on their pill, we'd look it up on pillreports, then send the info back to them. Legally though, it just wasn't possible. It brings up all sorts of things like culpability, if someone asked for info about a pill which had received only positive reviews, had tested as mdma - and we sent them that - but then they took it and had a bad reaction - legally that puts you in a very difficult position. Even a disclaimer that the info should be taken as general advice only won't cover you. I think that's why this service is so general - it'd just be far too hard and legally messy to provide any specificities, or any advice that could be construed as easing fears about drug use, and therefore constituting encouragement to use.
Because of that, while I think that in theory the idea has some merit, it's never going to promote harm reduction in practice, or be more than a showy ploy for the government to hide behind while pretending they're doing something about drug use.
I've worked with premium text message companies for many years now, and early on a coworker and I discussed and looked into a pillreports by text service - where people could send in the stats on their pill, we'd look it up on pillreports, then send the info back to them. Legally though, it just wasn't possible. It brings up all sorts of things like culpability, if someone asked for info about a pill which had received only positive reviews, had tested as mdma - and we sent them that - but then they took it and had a bad reaction - legally that puts you in a very difficult position. Even a disclaimer that the info should be taken as general advice only won't cover you. I think that's why this service is so general - it'd just be far too hard and legally messy to provide any specificities, or any advice that could be construed as easing fears about drug use, and therefore constituting encouragement to use.
Because of that, while I think that in theory the idea has some merit, it's never going to promote harm reduction in practice, or be more than a showy ploy for the government to hide behind while pretending they're doing something about drug use.