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Originally Posted by inBOIL
I think an analogy can be drawn with copyright violation. When VCRs were first introduced, their sale was challenged in court on the grounds that they led to copyright violations. The court (U.S. Supreme Court? I can't remember) ruled that they were legal because they had significant non-infringing functions. Can/should a similar standard be applied here? Does the Whizzinator have a significant legal use?
I'm not sold on the idea of these being legal if their only use is in breaking the law. Then again, I'm opposed to those laws in the first place, so my opposition is half-hearted.
Handguns are useful in preventing crime, as well as killing pests. And killing humans isn't always illegal (self-defense)
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Now see if they had made it out to be a humorous water pistol akin to a comedian's rubber chicken perhaps they might've gotten away with a word of mouth drug user campaign... just the wrong marketing is all.
Don't they sell us poisonous or addictive materials all day long that have been approved by the FDA, but don't really help human health? AKA Sugar, MSG, etc.