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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!jarthur.claremont.edu!ebrandt
- From: ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt)
- Subject: Announcement: the Price Project
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.081359.8579@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:13:59 GMT
- Lines: 61
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- The Internet Drug-Price Project
-
- Have you ever wondered how the prices of controlled substances vary
- the world over? Or what effect law-enforcement efforts have on the
- price, availability, and quality of drugs? Available data on
- illicit-substance availability is sparse and often regional. Here's
- your chance to help find the answers to these questions.
-
- What you need to do is send me current, accurate information on
- illicit substances in your area. Every month or so, or more often
- if data volume permits, I'll post a summary to alt.drugs. If
- someone with an ftp site allows it, I'll put cumulative data there.
- (Yeah, I'm ripping off _High_Times_' THMQ. Think I should send them
- a copy of the data each month?)
-
- Although possession of such knowledge is neither illegal nor
- incriminating, you may prefer to send it anonymously. You can
- put an "X-Anon-To: ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu" header in mail to
- anon@anon.penet.fi, or mail to
- ebrandt%jarthur.claremont.edu@anon.penet.fi if you can't add
- headers. Mail received nonymously will be sanitized by deleting all
- but the Date: header. You may wish to encrypt mail before letting
- it leave your machine; see my .sig if you have PGP.
-
- What I want:
- o For people to participate! Come on, I'm sure you've heard
- something on the subject.
-
- o Any identifying features.
- o Price. Mention the total quantity, too.
- o Quality/description.
- o Availability.
- o Location.
- o Approximate date of purchase or offer.
-
- o Accurate information. Rumors about a friend of a friend's aunt
- who made some great buy are useless. If this was an offer
- instead of an actual purchase, mention that.
- o Information on substances that will probably not be heavily
- reported upon, such as exotica and "hard" drugs.
- o Data from places that will be undercovered -- anywhere but the
- U.S., probably.
-
- What I don't want:
- o Specific information on how to score. This is not a tourist
- guide; it's a sociological research project.
- o Legal hassles. Look, DEA buddies, you collect this kind of
- data yourself. If you don't, I'm doing your work for you.
-
- Send me a data point every so often! This will only work if you
- make it work. Wouldn't it be interesting to have information on
- global trends in price, quality, and availability? To kick this
- off, I'll take historical data as well, for a better picture of
- trends. (Tell me how good your memory is, though...)
-
- Along with your data, please send me any suggestions you have.
-
- PGP 2 key by finger or e-mail
- Eli ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu
-
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