And the flip side is that BT needs income. They become nic-dealers, not tobacco dealers, per se.
Hell, we could hand them the nic-source market. Maybe they could supply nic to the vendors.
I don't trust BT's nic/vape/HNB because I'm suspicious. There's past behavior that's going to take time to erase, if they're even trying.
But they are certainly the experts here. They know about the MAOI aspects too.
I don't know. It's all confusing. I still think it's a back room deal somehow, because the surface story so so full of B.S. and illogical actions.
There are real-world factors, like them or not. Tobacco farmers. Tobacco states. There are investors. There's quality control (although I think the nic-vape industry has done a fantastic job at that. THC-vape, not so much.
But that includes illegal street dealers in my statement alongside the legit ones).
In a way, and I've said it before, we've done too good of a job. The last thing the ANTZ want is a bunch of people using relatively harmless good-tasting nic. And we truly don't know the full harm, and nic probably does harm the circulatory system.
Then there's national healthcare costs. Sociological (as in country-wide) costs.
IDK.
There's money in 20 factors here. Not just state revenue, but state costs, and individual farmers, and individual vape shops.