Fentanyl: A Free Press Special Report

But that argument only means that it's LESS irresponsible to manufacture lsd than fent. Either way, a degree of harm to the user exists if the product is misused. I don't see how we can presume to draw lines at what product is or is not okay to produce, this isn't black and white, where it's responsible to produce heroin, but irresponsible to produce fent. Almost all of the drugs we use have inherent dangers, I don't understand why you guys feel in a position to come down on one chemist because they're at the stronger end of the spectrum. So you believe it's okay to produce heroin, but not fent? What about some opiate in the middle of the two, potency-wise? At which point is someone crossing the line, how can we just create this line? Is it responsible to make mdma, people OD from that, although not nearly as often.
 
I guess you could say it's MORE irresponsible to produce fent than heroin, but to say that it's irresponsible to produce fent and responsible to produce heroin doesn't seem rational to me. Either way there is an inherent danger of overdose, why on earth is it okay to make the weaker, but not the stronger? Why should the blame fall to the chemist of the stronger one, but not the weaker one? If the chemist making fent is responsible for these peoples' deaths, then wouldn't an LSD chemist be responsible for deaths from his product if people were making blotter too strong, and in some cases people died because they did dumb things while tripping? I mean, they wouldn't have tripped hard enough to do those things if the blotter was normal strength, so is that the point that it becomes okay to blame the manufacturer?

If this were a real, open market and fent was sold as heroin, those who misled should be held accountable. But that's not the case. He made fent, what the hell was he supposed to do, a press release in the areas his product *may* have ended up in? Or just not synth it at all, and leave fent as a taboo drug that nobody gets?

For everyone who blames the deaths on him for making the fent (which was misrepresented and used inappropriately) - do you blame gun companies when someone shoots up a school? Do you go after mercedes benz when there's a car crash? This guy didn't misrepresent his product. He made fent, and I highly doubt he sold it as anything but fent to whoever bought it from him in mexico.
 
You can't use the gun company analogy. It doesn't make sense with this.

A slightly better example would be someone producing regular bombs and someone producing nuclear weapons. They both cause damage, but one is simply not allowed due to it's potential.

We don't know what he sold it as, but we do know that any sane chemist knows that the likely hood of a regular drug distributor properly cutting it is slim to none.


We're just going back and forth with this. It seems like you won't agree that there is a difference between how dangerous one drug is compared to another.
 
phrozen said:
We're just going back and forth with this. It seems like you won't agree that there is a difference between how dangerous one drug is compared to another.
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I do see a difference. I just see them as different shades of the same thing, so if I felt he was responsible for those deaths, I'd feel that every mdma chemist was resposible for their deaths, in some degree.
 
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