Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing::Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

    Desiring drugs isn’t what killed her any more than snapchat did. She wanted drugs that were comparatively safe, and instead she got poison.

    Why was somebody selling poison? Because buying drugs is illegal, and so consumer protection rules don’t apply.

    The war on drugs makes drugs more dangerous. Let her go to the drug store and buy some regular-ass methylphenidate over the counter if she wants a stimulant. The pharmacist ain’t going to screw up and give her fent.

    • 3ntranced@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Except big pharma will gouge the fuck out of any opportunity market and have people still resort to the street level junk.

      • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Just let people buy the same stuff people take for prescriptions, at the same prices they would pay if they were uninsured.

        If you’re uninsured, a month’s supply of cheap ADHD stimulant meds is like $40, and that’s for somebody taking it daily not recreationally. Fancy patented stuff like Vyvanse costs like 10X more but there you’re paying for timed consistent long-term release, which isn’t exactly a huge concern for recreational use.

        “I wanna buy some ritalin”

        “Do you have a prescription?”

        “No.”

        “Can I see some ID?”

        “Okay.”

        “Okay. That’ll be $40. Since you’ve never taken this before we strongly recommend you take your first hit now and sit in that chair for 40 minutes so we can make sure you don’t OD and die. Fill out this consent form, watch this video, and give me another $40 for this one-time onboarding.”