Not really. There's two elements to consider. First is that if your name gets associated with something like this, as a company, you're fucked, and if its coming from media, you basically don't have a hope in hell of silencing them. You're probably too young to remember the bout with cyanide in Beyer Aspirin bottles, but Beyer lost big on that from lost sales. The second thing is, they can absolve themselves of civil liability (sometimes), but all the warning labels in the world can't protect you from criminal liability. If you sell a product that racks up 50 or 60 deaths, you can expect a federal investigation and you and your company's name to be dragged through the mud. You can also expect slap fights over who gets to indict you on manslaughter charges. So even if the families can't sue (which, in this case they would anyway), you'd still be in a really shitty position.Ultratwinkie said:however it will only get worse since a bobby kotick wannabe will fuck with it. companies don't care what they are doing with the product since all they have to do (at least in California) is to slap a warning label on it and they are free of any liability.Starke said:Okay. Yeah, in this case it kinda is. You can extract the strychnine with a basic titration (IIRC), and any trained chemist could do that. The problem is, the people making this shit don't really know what they're doing. Commercially produced heroin (from the sixteen seconds between it being patented and being classed schedule 1 because of abuse) is actually free of this.Ultratwinkie said:i am saying the "shitty techniques" will only get worse and isn't affected by legality.