The key reason for the amending HB 169 was to preempt (i.e. prohibit) local governments from banning the sale of e-cigs and
tobacco products to adults. That's why Big Pharma funded ACS, AHA, ALA are lobbying against HB 169.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Secti...ocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0169&Session=2014
The following provision in Section 11 of the amended version of HB 169 exempts establishments (which would include online vendors) that don't allow children in their premises.
Now that is the intelligent version of what I was trying to say! Everyone in the
vaping community needs to get a law degree.
Gentlemen, I marveled at the fact that despite the attention paid to such legislation by this forum community it managed to bypass the attention of most everyone. While I haven't read the
thread in its entirety it's clear from a few poignant posts that late and last minute amendments added the objectionable and threatening aspects to this bill. This has been a tactic of centralists from issues as varied as what constitutes a
person to non-apportioned taxation in the past two centuries and going forward. They will always use the midnight hour. But we can't all be lawyers, nor should we need to be. Such a condition merely punctuates our transition to a state of suppression of the individual by government.
"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow." —
PUBLIUS. (Madison) Federalist Papers #62
The preceding would seem very much to apply here. It is
democracy corrupted
for the public good which has been the doom of a free people throughout known human history. Legalized theft under the brute force of law and the resulting abrogation of the human rights of free association and free moral agency.
I resolved after scoping the lay of the land here that we must convert as many transitioning and prospective vapers into the lifestyle asap. To create a tsunami of consensus among a thriving expanding base of vapers and their close ones. I've been working feverishly since to implement such a program among, B&M's, creators, producers and users alike. And I urge everyone to join me in this mission. Our doom is a pre-pack manufacturing model that readily conforms by its predisposition (our foreign suppliers) and jurisdiction (domestic businesses) to the impending regulatory morass. This will by and large destroy all established or prospective independent vaping industry. And there go our choices out the window.
We must create a
vocal majority of our own now, right now, willing to join in this fight to shout down the voices within government and their facilitators in the oligopolies of finance and industry from depriving us of choice. Those voices subdue the masses into quiet acquiescence of our relegation to powerlessness. It's about the creation of another sub-class of Americans. And we are it, that target, again.
I will have no part of that. We must be zealots for vaping not just the mods, the hardware and the juice. It's now about people.
Good luck.
