Australian customs to seize nicotine imports from 1st July

[Doffy]

Australian Government proposes strengthening its stance against e-cigarettes containing vaporiser nicotine | Office of Drug Control

Also read that the fine could be $222,000.00

 

[stols001]

Australia has plenty of things eager to make you die young. I DO not see the sense in adding to them, and from the looks of that fine, half of Australia's economy might be from smoking perhaps.

I mean this is a place that lets you GAMBLE in PUBS.

I guess tobacco only only makes sense, then.

Anna

 

[SlowTalker]

Man I really feel for Australia's vaping community. I was freaked when I found out I only had a few months to prepare. They only have until the end of the month. I only hope this doesn't trigger a wave of robberies, etc. Good luck.

 

[Mordacai]

@Doffy, does Australia charge for perscriptions?

And what is it about individuals having a perscription for vaping liquids when ariving in Australia, as that raises more questions than answers.

But it'll be perfectly acceptable to use Nicotine for agricultural purposes though.

Makes no sense whatsoever really.

 

[ozm8ey]

Damn Im screwed Im going to go back to smoking despite what the authorities have said. This is bs

Edit: They're also banning the actual ecigs in australia too as well as imported nicotine. Only way u will be able to get an ecig and nicotine when this happens is with a doctors prescription which they most likely won't provide since they want you to quit nicotine and smoking. It’s already hard to vape in Australia, from next month it’ll be almost impossible

As far as I know we don't have any australian made ecigs for suppliers to get ecigs here wont happen we'll eventually run out

Also people in australian jails extract nicotine from nicotine patches and use tea tree leaves in order to smoke since smoking is banned in jails here. Is it possible to do that with vaping to get the nicotine safely?

If you guys think you might be safe from ecig ban in your countries well if they say its a success here then other countries will most likely follow like a bandwagon

 

[CaveFurby]

Damn, this is a pitiful shame! How nice of the government to give you what, 2 weeks notice? Barely enough time to get some delivered from NZ? And you're right Ozm, this will set a precedent and give more countries ideas.

 

[ozm8ey]

Yep just looked on several nz sites the export nicotine to australia. All of them have announcements that they have halted exports to australia. i honestly don't know what im going to do now

 

[Beamslider]

Doctor prescription. Is that easy to get and does it allow import?

 

[ozm8ey]

Doctor prescription. Is that easy to get and does it allow import?

Doctors are advocates of health and most would not know much about vaping so they would probably say no. Also I doubt they would be able to get you a bottle of nicotine it'll most likely be nicotine cartridges or something. Only way in my opinion they would prescribe nicotine is if you have severe mental health issues like anxiety and panic attacks if you're already a vaper.

 

[CaveFurby]

I'm hearing that even if you can get a prescription, then you have to find a pharmacy which has applied for permission to handle/dispense the nicotine and all the red tape that implies.

 

[CaveFurby]

Looks like Vapebox in NZ is still shipping juice until the 29th. Looks like that's nicotine juice tho, didn't see any liquid nic.

 

[ozm8ey]

I honestly want to go on a massive protest in melbourne with 20k+ other people just to show how bad timing it is to do this with the pandemic going on. You want people to stay home then you go and do this expecting people to stay calm.

 

[Mordacai]

@ozm8ey, GP's know little to nothing.

So I seriously doubt that they will be helpful and accommodating to vapers, plus there's probably going to be a government approved device that's overpriced and pretty dammed useless.

 

[Doffy]

Doctor prescription. Is that easy to get and does it allow import?

It was made more difficult. It isn't a normal script like a pbs medication. The Dr has to apply for a special exemption, and also handle the import by courier. So docs are even less likely than before to do it

 

[WorksForMe]

Vapers launch fighting fund to challenge Therapeutic Goods Administration’s ban on nicotine e-cigarettes

Legal Action - Vapers’ Fighting Fund

 

[ozm8ey]

We have 2 politicians trying to fight the ban here: Support Vaping

 

[sonicbomb]

 

[ozm8ey]

Great news:

 

[Rossum]

We have until January 1st to get vaping fully legalised in Australia.

I wish you guys much success with full legalization, but if I lived in Australia and didn't already have a lifetime's worth of nic in my freezer, I'd make sure I did by January 1st, just in case.

Look at it thus way, even if legalization succeeds, knowing your government, they'll apply some outrageous tax in the process.

Here in the USA, there are currently bills in Congress that would tax nicotine at a rate ostensibly equivalent to that of cigarettes, which works out to $2780 USD per liter of 100 mg base, and your cig taxes are much higher than ours.

 

[ozm8ey]

your cig taxes are much higher than ours.

In my opinion they take advantage knowing nicotine is a highly addictive drug. Knowing that they just increase the price of it every year saying its to get people to quit smoking but truth they know most will continue to smoke because its a drug. For a lot of people there is underlining issues that cause them to smoke not just the addiction like anxiety, boredom, etc. The shops probably only make $2 per pack they sell the rest is probably tax. $50 a pack it is now on average. At that price people would have to be committing crimes to pay for their habit. Illegal drugs are proof that just because a drug is expensive doesn't mean they're going to quit, they will just have to find a way to pay for it.