Maybe I'm a person not given to gloom and doom and seeing the boogie man at every corner.
Why?
Perspective is the most important thing to have. If you talk to people who are dealing with chronic, disabling illnesses, or even vets coming back without limbs, for instance, you start to understand this------
why some are thriving, and some are not (emotionally, spiritually, physically, etc.)
The ones who trive focus on what they can do, what they do have, what their possibilities are. The stuff that they can't do, they put on an eraser board then erase it......because it's OFF THE TABLE for them. There is no point focussing on it because it's a total waste of time.
I bring this up because I see less and less of a healthy positive PERSPECTIVE going on here. It's all boogie man, shadows, unfairness, anger, fear, what if I can't do X, Y and Z, what am I not gonna have, etc.
The reality is, there is still plenty "left"
when you start to change your perspective. It's unfortunate that this isn't taught as one of the most vital survival techniques for human beings. It would make for a healthier emotional state for most people. A lot less stress, and a lot less attitudes and thinking processes that really end up hurting people's health overall.
it requires expensive, precise measuring/dispensing equipment in order to hit the mix correctly every time.
If enacted as proposed the custom juice market will collapse
I don't believe that is true. Thousands of vendors to buy juice from, 3mg, 0mg. 6mg. even 9mg juice......lots of vendors now do
not offer that much of a variety of mg ......mountain oaks has always stuck to that (and they hae always been ahead of the game and yet very profitable) and they only offer 18mg, 12mg and 6mg.
I talked to them last year about that and when you are in a high production environment, it is not really
financially feasible to make custom orders (I wanted higher VG than the 70/30 most of their juices are). They explained to me that making ONE small change in a pg/vg ratio has very far reaching effects for a business. They would have to do that across an entire line of juices, and it would affect EVERY recipe for EVERY juice they have......and it really
complicates their production costs and shipping schedules, not to mention manpower/employee considerations. As well as the quality control it takes to "re-tweak" juices.
It had nothing to do with the FDA, it was just a good biz decision i.e. maximize profit and keep production costs reasonable so a good price can be passed on to the customer.
So in their case, it was a business decision.....not sure how maximizing profit and properly utilizing employees/staff (a smart business plan) has anything to do with the FDA.
By shopping around, I can pretty much find any pg/vg ratio and nic level I want. Yeah, sometimes that means leaving a vendor. But that is true for any kind of consumer "tastes".......I don't buy certain clothes, vitamins, shoes, etc. anymore and only shop with companies that make what I WANT. To me, this seems like a pretty normal situation. It is the typical consumer market in a capitalist economic model.
When they can't get at all the juice sources they will ban the euiptment. Kinda hard to DIY, when VAPES are banned.
this has been discussed in so many topics over 2 years and if you believe that equipment will be banned then you also have to believe that flashlights and lithium batteries will be too.
mt baker vapor would be crippled
No, they won't. Right now they offer 6 nicotine strengths, and 5 pg/vg ratios. The very reason they can do that is because they are high volume (cheap prices do that). Their business model is based on high volume. And there are other vendors who don't have that model.
This is true of every business on the planet. Some are high volume, some are very diversified, so that if one segment of their biz isn't a profit center, it is made up for by other departments, etc.
All businesses have to have a certain amount of flexibility. Or they don't survive. and that is true whether they are having to meet regulations, or have to meet transport costs during times when fuel is expensive, blah blah blah.
I have taught and studied business models, remember when Harley Davison almost went out of biz? That was a very interesting situation. They had to make some serious and very painful changes, and when they did, they became one of the healthiest businesses on the planet.
Companies die. In a global marketplace the competition is fierce. More than fierce. And if you are in that marketplace, then you better have very good business plan, very good accountants, lawyers, and advisors.
Because with or w/out regulations, there are businesses failing every minute of the day.
I don't agree with a lot of the knee jerking because I don't think some of it is REALISTIC. I'm not talking fair etc. I'm talking the
REALISTIC expectations of a person or business who wants to survive in the 21st century.....(that again is where perspective comes in......)
Childproof caps and age requirements were almost a GIVEN, These are just pretty "normative" things in ANY consumer market that deals with human consumption. Yet people are absolutely freaking out about those things. Its really a waste of energy. Sometimes, it pays to deal with "what is". We all have to do that even iin our personal lives, and people who don't.........well......they come to a very bad end. And a very messy life.
I am pro vaping since I vape, but I have never been so
naive as to expect some kind of wild-west scenario in an industry that is projected to have many billions of dollars in sales AND that is dealing with human consumption. To me, much of these changes looks a lot like business as usual.
And yes, there are people who are anti regulation in general, (about everything), that's not on the table here, because that is a much larger political battle that won't be won on the vaping stage......because it's not even realistic expectation in the world we actually live in.
That would involve changing the entire world and really well beyond the scope of vaping
So I'm not even going there with respect to vape products.
Sure is, mom, so different that spell-checkers for all eternity will misspell my name. 
(imagine those AREN'T thumbs!)
