wait are you trying to get us to send them drugs?
you know like with bourbon. The regular old standbys cost the same as always (roughly) but there are so many more bottles that cost around the 100 dollar mark on the same shelf as the Jack Daniels.
Exactly. All the boutique small batch bourbons are nice, but give me a delicious (under appreciated and far superior to it price point) old standby like Wild Turkey 101. Granger? Same applies. Outstanding!
After 8/8/21 a lot of blends will be gone and any new blends will be required to go through an expensive Deeming process. Unless a company is willing to either risk high penalties for flouting the law, or pay high fees to go the legal route, there won't be new blends, and what new blends come onto the market will be priced to recoup the extra costs.
I don't buy it though. I don't buy that the deeming rules are the problem their stated as. Snuff got hit with pretty much the same rules oh wait all tobacco that's sold in certain countries already got hit with the same kind of rules and additional costs. It wasn't the seismic event people where afraid it would be and that's a market where new costs are way more prohibitive because if you think pipe tobacco is a small market look at nasal snuff. The only real change that happened was some snuffs that where bearly holding on already got cut. And guess what the way that pipe smoking is mushrooming is going to more then take care of a new cost of business. I could be wrong but every single time a new rule comes down the pipe line it's labeled the new apocalypse and it almost never pans out. If there is money to be made, it will be made. God you should have heard the nightmares everyone was expecting with icd 10 instead of 9. People were going to die doctors were going to homeless. And turns out even though it's more complicated and increased some budget concerns on the front end it's actually easier to deal with because it's actually way better explained and way more explicit. And it also actually got some doctors to get off their asses and write functional reports instead of the clap trap half assed ones they made for years.
one isn't ruining the other. There is room for both of them in the market and in my cabinet. And if anything both are going to probably be encouraged by the deeming regs. Old market tested standbys and special high end editions that can give a nice cash injection when needed.
cellaring is always a good idea. Things disappear from the market. Tobacco is a plant and isn't the same from year to year. And there is always the idea of it's better to have something you didn't need to hold onto that you paid less for then to assume it will always be safe.
one mans not heavy is another mans what the heck.
I hope that you're right. But I'm seeing changes in blends from some very highly respected blending houses, that indicate drops in quality, and the FDA deadline is the FDA deadline. Some blends will slip to 8/8/22 because their makers have fulfilled some requirements toward going through the deeming process. But as the law currently stands, all blends that entered the US market after February 15th 2007 will be off the market on 8/8/21 unless they have been approved by the FDA. It will take an act of Congress to change that.
sometimes the expectation of ruin can have a bad effect. And there is something about focus that makes people go a little crazy (you know you're an artist).
