Sodium nitrite is used to cure and preserve meat. That's why Amazon sell it. It is not a "suicide kit" any more than any other chemical.
> Amazon recommends that purchasers also buy Tagamet to avoid vomiting up the poison, a personal use scale to measure the proper quantity, and the Amazon Edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook, a suicide manual with an entire chapter on how to die by SN.
That's definitely a suicide kit.
To me, a suicide kit is something you find by looking for "suicide kit" AND it is a single item sold for a single purpose.
This is important because if we're not strict about that, then there are likely billions of "suicide kits" sold daily on and offline. A knife + any other item is a suicide kit by that definition. So are Caffeine pills or normal salt or wiper fluid or a wood chipper.
And that's the problem here: these are random items someone who already wanted to commit suicide might want, but might equality be sought by any reasonable sane person for safe use.
From thread:
NOTE: the product we’re suing about should not be mistaken for curing salt which is only 6% pure SN and used to cure meats.
People (I've done it once or twice but I am not super into it) who cure their own meat get quite obsessive about their "recipes" 0.5% or 0.4% or 0.6% SN? Cloves or Nutmeg? etc.
The whole thing seems like a lawyer trying to turn a nothing case into something and either being ignorant of the facts or hoping others are...