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Zach Ewbank

3D Printing Risks: Not Just Plastic Guns, But Military Parts, Drugs And Chemical Weapons - 1 views

www.ibtimes.com/drugs-chemical-weapons-1275591

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shared by Zach Ewbank on 13 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • . But it also opens the door to making counterfeit parts for commercial or defense operations, designed for sabotage.
  • But the ability to print drugs on demand necessarily raises the prospect that people might print out recreational drugs -- or worse.
  • but there will be an increased capability for a small organization to create sophisticated biological or chemical weaponry,
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  • The case of meth may offer an instructive model. The trend of using decongestants to synthesize meth prompted Congress to pass a law in 2005 putting identification checks, purchase limits and other restrictions in place for Sudafed and similar drugs.
  • “It’s definitely a knee-jerk reaction in Washington to regulate 3-D printers,” Wohlers said. “It’s only going to cut our own throats.”
  • 3D Printing Risks: Not Just Plastic Guns, But Military Parts, Drugs And Chemical Weapons
Caelob Wexler

3-D Printing the New War on Drugs - 1 views

dailyreckoning.com/-printing-the-new-war-on-drugs

shared by Caelob Wexler on 18 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • erwise, the costs of research, winning regulatory approval, and production can exceed anything a pharmaceutical company could hope to recoup in an era when developing a new drug might cost a billion — or billions of — dollars.
  • Not incidentally, the revolution also promises to kneecap whatever is left of efforts to control chemistry’s results, including recreational drugs.
  • What impact will the ability to print chemical compounds on printers have on the political class of easily flustered control freaks?
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  • If people could print off… sheets of ecstasy tablets at the party they’re at that time, that just completely takes away our border protection role in its known sense.
  • It’s difficult to believe that the world that brought us the Silk Road online marketplace for illegal drugs won’t also produce chemically oriented tinkerers in abundance to exploit the recreational (and commercial) potential of producing intoxicants via 3-D chemical printing.
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