Deeming Regulations have been released!!!!

Brewdawg1181

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Being the "Deeming thread" I did edit my posts. We will have to agree to disagree that discussion of such things can only be in a certain part of the forum any more than discussion of squonking can only be in the liquid fed area or DIY can only be in the DIY area.
Thanks for being considerate. But you didn't need to edit them. There was nothing wrong with them.
 

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People, they're diverse. Some have said "bye ECF" because they don't want the "druggie" talk.

I think common sense will win out, people will figure out how to manage this somehow. Some might leave. IDK. Most will stay, and most will keep such discussion (in general, not the current "crisis") to that area, just like we keep other things in other areas. Like certain hardware areas.

Most of the references here are just "general". Like "Bootleg THC street carts" being the main health concern right now. Reference done. Want more details, go to that "other area".

Right. There's a difference between discussing the political impact of the use of dodgy THC carts, and comparing recipes for the best pot mixture. There's been a few posts that got close to the line, but mostly it's been working out pretty well. IMO.
 

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Speaking of "crisis"...

This story...sounds almost like she got too much nic. BUT...I can't really tell with the limited information given:
https://nypost.com/2019/09/15/inside-the-deadly-vaping-crisis-thats-gripping-the-nation/

I mean, you can make yourself sick smoking cigs too.....
It's nic.

Healey, 21, said she’d taken between 25 and 35 puffs of a mint-flavored juul pod while hanging out with friends near the school’s Jamaica, Queens, campus when her mouth started to water and her body became drenched with sweat.

“I started vomiting like I never have before, and have never felt that kind of pain before while getting sick,” Healey, an accounting major, told The Post.

If they did a story about everyone that ever got sick smoking cigs and weren't used to it....
 

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Speaking of "crisis"...

This story...sounds almost like she got too much nic. BUT...I can't really tell with the limited information given:
https://nypost.com/2019/09/15/inside-the-deadly-vaping-crisis-thats-gripping-the-nation/

I mean, you can make yourself sick smoking cigs too.....
It's nic.



If they did a story about everyone that ever got sick smoking cigs and weren't used to it....
Yep, sounds like the effects of the old time method of making the kid smoke till they are green when caught.
 

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My dad used a box of robust cigars. He was at a loss as I enjoyed them even after puking.
Almost the same thing happened with my step-grandson (ish). But with cigs. He never puked though. Marl Reds. Constitution of an ox I guess.

He smokes now (says he doesn't smoke 'much') ;)
 

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While I agree, the cannabis forum was created, to my understanding, to discuss the use of cannabis in a separate area. I'm not a moderator, so I'll step aside.
I think of it more as the ability to mention what is being unreported or mis represented, ie that cannabis carts tainted with Vit E being the real culprit, while MSM and the alphabet agencies are just saying quit vaping now...they are doing a huge dis service and undermining public health, and to discuss the matter properly, the real facts have to able to be discussed. It really doesn't matter where you fall on your convictions regarding this subject, the opposition has put it squarely in the limelight. Doesn't matter what you feel is right or wrong, it IS the current playing field on this subject for the time being, be that as it is.
 

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Trump can't lose any more votes.
I agree. That is why I blieve we vapers can make an impact in the election. But then I look at the possible opponents for Trump...wow. They're all pretty slim pick'ms. Lesser of two evils once again.
 

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I agree. That is why I blieve we vapers can make an impact in the election. But then I look at the possible opponents for Trump...wow. They're all pretty slim pick'ms. Lesser of two evils once again.
When you have the choice / illusion of the lesser of two evils, one can choose not to participate in the sham. Let the rest of them duke it out and hunker down to weather the storm, with your preps and stockpiles in order...
 

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I'm here to tell you that as the 1%,

get ready. ;)
I'm beginning to think that "they" know that too. Some are just in the last throws of the "Grab $$ game", but the writing is on the wall.

And to stay on topic, it dovetails into national healthcare. I don't care if you look at it from just a sociological-cost perspective from 100,000 feet up, or from a particular political ideology down here on planet Earth, there's a dramatic sociological cost to combustibles. Go back to that ~500,000 smoking related deaths per year. I suppose we have similar costs to things like alcoholism. Some countries even more (Russia has had 'programs' for such I'm sure, as do we).

So at some point, these issues get addressed. Organically? Cosmically? Divine intervention or just collective consciousness, doesn't really matter to us sheeple, in a sense. We're caught up in it.

If you have a system that is moving all the money to the 1%, the 99% will catch on in time. ;)
And if combustibles are a huge social cost, society as a whole will do something.

But then we have the trade-off. The "interaction" between laws/money/structure and the end-goal...removing combustibles and replacing them. "Smoke free future".

In a sense, and I'm going out on a limb here, it's not all that bad. THAT writing is on the wall too. Us traditional vapers are sacrificial lambs in a sense, but if those born today have a smoke-free future in the future new-environment, and they're stuck with highly controlled BT products that are deliberately kind of a PITA as a deterrent... well, society as a whole gets better in the end. Abstractly.

Look at how "they" made cigs actually WORSE not better! They're more-deadly now. They have that FSC crap that makes them burn wrong. They're vilified constantly. Instead of trying to develop safer cigs, they went in the exact opposite direction, and decided that they would provide a product but also discourage future use and expand into things like providing nic to the NRT people. ;)

So we're "screwed" in a traditional-vape sense, but society might win in the end. And remember, even for ECF, the goal has always been harm reduction. Maybe getting too stuck on form is a mistake if tobacco cigs remain. So we have to make a deal with the devil, and turn the market over to them so they can make their "smoke free future".

I've wondered similar things about the Big-Oil stuff, and new energy tech. To get them off the oil (eventually) we may have to turn all the other $$$ producing tech to them so they'll switch over. Not working real well so far...

:2c:
 
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You may also keep an eye on their subforum: CASAA

Not as active as it used to be though. I guess most of the action is on FB and Twitter nowadays.
I do try to post everything I post on CASAA's FB and Twitter in the ECF CASAA subforum.

Please see today's National Call to Action!
 

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And to stay on topic, it dovetails into national healthcare. I don't care if you look at it from just a sociological-cost perspective from 100,000 feet up, or from a particular political ideology down here on planet Earth, there's a dramatic sociological cost to combustibles. Go back to that ~500,000 smoking related deaths per year. I suppose we have similar costs to things like alcoholism. Some countries even more (Russia has had 'programs' for such I'm sure, as do we).

If you have a system that is moving all the money to the 1%, the 99% will catch on in time. ;)
And if combustibles are a huge social cost, society as a whole will do something.

Look at how "they" made cigs actually WORSE not better! They're more-deadly now. They have that FSC crap that makes them burn wrong. They're vilified constantly. Instead of trying to develop safer cigs, they went in the exact opposite direction, and decided that they would provide a product but also discourage future use and expand into things like providing nic to the NRT people. ;)
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