Or was she pushed?
Mrs. White, in the library, with the keyboard, or something.
I have given it some thought, about suggestions on handling illegal drug transactions in an ethical and moral fashion sans rule of law. I conclude that SR or anyone else for that matter, should follow standard harm-reduction principles as much as possible.
I think the first priority should be to design and implement an age-verify system. An unrelated 3rd party could be contracted to, given a name, date and place of birth, use public records to verify the buyer's age then return a special key to the buyer. The seller can then request that key as needed, and use it in a query on the 3rd party's server to return an accept or reject directive.
I guess it could not be mandatory, but perhaps it could be rewarded by positive reputation points for sellers who require age-verify. I suppose too that once age-verify has been established true, the same seller and buyer would not need to repeat the process so it would only impact the first transaction.
I suppose that might work sans law, but sans law, the Silk Road model wouldn't serve any purpose. Furthermore, the law precludes any such age verification because of the risks involved in conducting such extralegal transactions.
Sellers or SR or both should make the following absolutely clear to all buyers of hard drugs:
- The safest drug use is no use.
- Never take a drug you do not completely understand.
- Do not inject or consume any narcotic alone, if possible have a non-user by your side.
- Never mix alcohol use and narcotics.
- Always use a new, sterile rig when injecting.
- Follow appropriate cleaning (sterile pads) of the injection site prior to injection.
- If you feel you need help dealing with drug addiction call this help line (research a service)
There are additional guidelines that would be more appropriate for other substances that should also be considered. And of course any manufacturers and pharmaceutical information, instructions, pamphlets, or packing material should be included in every order of this sort.
These are reasonable suggestions, but, beyond general advice like set and setting, I think Silk Road could better serve its users by referring them to authoritative sources like Erowid rather than duplicating the information and trying to keep it up to date. No need to run the risk of falling behind.
