<div dir="ltr"><div>3D printing techniques (which tend to have minimum feature sizes somewhere around a millimeter) are generally not applicable to drugs, which must be manufactured at a molecular scale.<br><br></div>Now, molecular manufacturing could eventually allow home printing of drugs. But that's a ways off yet.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:43 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Henry wrote: <span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">3D printing of drugs at home by end users will disrupt this.</span></div><div class="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-yj6qo m_-4071431103261866864gmail-ajU" style="font-size:12.8px"><div id="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-:1m9" class="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-ajR"><img class="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="opacity:0.3"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">----------------\\</div></div><div id="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-:1m9" class="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-ajR"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div id="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-:1m9" class="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-ajR"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Wow. Never thought of that. What's to stop printing meth or opiates or just about anything? This could disrupt the entire society. Not that I would be against it. Freedom from drug companies, freedom from physicians, freedom from drug lords. Millions of unintended suicides.</div></div><div id="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-:1m9" class="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-ajR"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div id="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-:1m9" class="m_-4071431103261866864gmail-ajR"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Henry Rivera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu" target="_blank">hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On Mar 30, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ...<br>
<span>> The decision for who should be allowed what category of drugs goes to a discussion of philosophy and politics and economics. Regardless of your philosophy or the philosophy of the legislators, there exists powerful entities who leverage the law to maintain their revenue streams. I don't expect anything this side of the singularity to break that hegemony.<br>
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</span>3D printing of drugs at home by end users will disrupt this.<br>
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