I both agree & disagree with some of your statements......
(1) Regulation "can" be a good thing for standardizing and having records on hand of content controls.
However, when it comes to having regulations in place over substances, with those only being based on "averaging" of subjects being submitted to exposure (testing), it also opens up issues with an "approved substance"'s false
sense of security that can also kill certain people who did not fall under the grouping being tested.
The human being, mind and body, are too varied to rely on anything being perceived as concrete evidence of safety.
(2) Backyard hacks, chemists, inventors, have been around since the dawn of man. If those in "power" think otherwise then they need to be put out of their positions and given a reality check.
This type of experimentation goes on all the time... look at the herbal followers and their reliance on past texts leading them to devise their own outcomes through that information and attempting to extract and self medicate both from the health/Natural stores as well as in their own basements.
Regardless if there is a ban in the end, or regulation and taxation to the point where our devices and/or their supplies become so far out of reach it becomes an underground interest, it will now always be a "known" (more-so with the means of the internet), and as such those people who actually refuse to be taken by the hand and told whats good for them based on others opinions and beliefs will always continue to derive their own means to get what they want.
I can tell you right now that "I", as I'm sure others do, have lost that faith in the higher ups at making those safety claims and decisions for us with them allowing products to pass that indeed DO kill people solely for their own vested interests in it as taxable product that brings in billions while killing those who are contributing to that revenue. Yes.... I'm talking about the tobacco cigarette.
(3) Having liquid nicotine in a home is no more risk that other household chemical products. I just went and did a quick inventory to make sure I wasn't talking out my ...., and this is what I found without childproof caps, high taxes, nor mass histeria over their existance:
Bleach, oil based paint, CLR, detergents, windex, muratic acid...... man, I'm not going to list them all as I both don't have the time, nor the desire, but its safe to say, there is more within the home that can easily kill if those who posess it are so brain dead as to not having a single notion of common sence.
I'm honestly sick to death over how things have changed over my lifetime, so much so that this intervening attitude has truly hampered mankind to the point that imposing all these "safeguards" has made us a bunch of cowardly bumbling fools who no longer use basic insticts to use what was once considered "survival through education" to learn and adapt with any given circumstance. And its worse that people are imposing these thought patterns and activities on the children, further degrading what we as individuals and human beings had always depended on for our own identity and developement.
Both adults and kids are becoming drones, wanting to be told what and when to do things.
They become laxy, fat and unfit, physically and mentally as they welcome the state of mind that anything and everything has too many risks and dangers to go out and learn and explore what nature has to offer.
Ok, I'm starting to come off as a preachy book, so I'll end my rant of disgust and just say.................
The human race is doomed at the hand of its own laziness and lack of self thought. So I may as well just go out and by my pod now and give in.....
Nope, can't do it....... where's my dead flashlites and wire box so I can make my own vape machine. Maybe I'll go for a walk and pluck some Lobelia inflata and extract the seeds and produce some Lobelene to substitute that evil nicotine....
Oh my god.... look at him..... he has free thought !!!
Quick, call the governmental human babysitters.... exterminate him.... he is a threat to our regulated society for the better of mankind.......
Ya, thats right..... take me out of this stupid existance
VApeOn,
Greg