The prohibition laws on alcohol certainly unleashed a bunch of bootleg rot-gut poison that was never meant to be consumed, but made it to market unchecked. Over regulation in a form that makes it impossible to sell a legal product is just as good at creating these same circumstances.
True. I'm guessing that the masses can easily get behind banning or regulation to make harmful products appealing to kids completely go away. So the "deeming" is passed and is a legal quagmire where collateral damage is inevitable because courts and attorneys can more easily defend Vape substances if the regs are too tightly targeted at their products. If a few judges see the substances being regulated as the same basic elements then it's back to a rewrite and unfortunately pipe tobaccos and cigars wind up fully included because the broad based regs encompassing ALL are, 'more legal', to enforce.
Question along these lines: Anyone have an idea how deeming affects a blender's future decision to change a blend such as those having been heavily discussed here like Escudo, Director's Cut, and several others 'changed' (not rehashing if they were or were not changed) previously? Thanks.
I think in practice, right now, “substantially equivalent“ gives lots of room for ongoing changes.
Probably not much. If oldgeezersmoker's contention that the actions by anti smoking groups to force the FDA to enact the cut offs sooner actually resulted in the opposite effect, then blenders will do what they need to do and not likely care about it. Most likely they will use some form of SE to get approval for a few thousand bucks. Swapping out the Virginia, for example, because there's a cheaper source, isn't going to result in a six figure full monte Deeming. They can argue that Virginia tobacco is Virginia tobacco.
Overregulation isn't useful any more than no regulation is useful. We are what we are, a decidedly mixed lot, and thus give reason for the need to regulate our dealings with others at large.
Precisely. And the same blend in ready rubbed, flake, twist or plug is substantially equivalent.
Yep. Great for crime, both private and governmental.
I always wondered what funkenhouser would look like without a beard
According to the state of California everything has been shown to cause cancer. I use all forms of tobacco available to me knowing the risks because I enjoy tobacco. I've known friends that tried to live as healthy as medical regulations required and died of cancer or heart attack several years younger than myself. If health concerns are causing you pause about pipe smoking, walk away from it as it really isn't a healthy practice.
What the current rate for driving a trunk full of this out to Washington state right now?
