Yes, that is exactly why it was proposed by ~derefr to
> [offer] "safe self-experimentation sites", complete with medical researchers + monitoring equipment to capture data, and nurses to help with bad reactions?
That's what this whole subthread is about.
The point is that there would be no useful data captured at such sites beyond 'what is the LD50 of this random shit someone ordered from China?' Such a site would possibly increase safety for individuals, but not much else.
They are not "experimenting" on themselves, they are simply engaging in a chemically-mediated attempt at wish fulfillment. There are few, if any, actual experimentation protocols being used and whenever I check out the scene to see if it is any better Instill find a random collection of anecdotes and poorly gathered "data points." I see no baseline data, no blinding or controls, the worst sorts of confirmation bias in data gathering and assessment, and people entering these "experiments" with a random selection of pre-exisiting conditions for which they are attempting self-medication. This is just an exercise in generating noise, not data.