If they’ve changed since the lawsuit, then I am ignorant of what they’re practices are now. My first hand knowledge was that they were trying to tell me that PS LTF was definitely not PS LTF when I asked them. They said they made it themselves from Virginias grown locally, and that because it looks, smells, and tastes like LTF, that didn’t mean anything. I returned to my pipe club, and a friend told me that he knew what each and every blend was that they sold. Then weeks later we read in the paper that they had been closed temporarily and fined for telling a federal agent the same sort of things they told me. Included in the article was that they had no manufacturing liscense, so their claims to be making tobaccos were totally false. This is different than just renaming blends in jars. They were lying about being manufacturers.
Now, they may have spent the huge amount of money it takes to manufacture and distribute their own blends. They may be making their own now, but in the face of costs of doing so with current FDA regulations, and their history of lying... who knows. I just avoid the shop now. How can I trust someone who has done something like that?
But, they are definitely an interesting little shop, ha ha. The workers definitely have a lot of charisma.