e-cigarettes in the medical world have just arrived "yesterday" so to speak, and being in infancy means e-cigs are vulnerable to all sorts of potentially bad laws.
The only way we can arm ourselves is to self-govern and self-police and provide total transparency. but this isn't possible as juice vendors are privately held businesses and don't have a necessary interest in being total transparent (as being total transparent also means alot more work to document and demonstrate what juices are actually containing what substances, and to also be able to provide a paper trail for the flavor vendors.. this all has to be "Voluntary")
that said if vendor and flavor cooperation is voluntary AND we want a community that demonstrates we can "comfortably coerce" vendors to behave to our standards, we can TAKE responsibility for our community as well.. This means if someone were to say buy something that was known dangerous and they got sick, we would have the ability to demonstrate that something was non-conformant to the vendors disclosure...and hopefully we would be able to track this before it would ever become an issue! problem is this is alot of work! but taking responsibility for the POOR actions of others is actually the key to becoming legitamate. This means that we as a community have a way for instance, to get a chemical readout of random juices from random vendors...and have weekly results and discussions and fund this laboratory work via membership or something... I dont know.. Imagine if ther were a sub forum called "Weekly Random Chemical Samples" where a 5 random juices from 3 suppliers each week were investigated and disclosed and we talked about it!!!!
of course this is not the "Most correct" solution but clearly we have to start doing more IMO
The only way we can arm ourselves is to self-govern and self-police and provide total transparency. but this isn't possible as juice vendors are privately held businesses and don't have a necessary interest in being total transparent (as being total transparent also means alot more work to document and demonstrate what juices are actually containing what substances, and to also be able to provide a paper trail for the flavor vendors.. this all has to be "Voluntary")
that said if vendor and flavor cooperation is voluntary AND we want a community that demonstrates we can "comfortably coerce" vendors to behave to our standards, we can TAKE responsibility for our community as well.. This means if someone were to say buy something that was known dangerous and they got sick, we would have the ability to demonstrate that something was non-conformant to the vendors disclosure...and hopefully we would be able to track this before it would ever become an issue! problem is this is alot of work! but taking responsibility for the POOR actions of others is actually the key to becoming legitamate. This means that we as a community have a way for instance, to get a chemical readout of random juices from random vendors...and have weekly results and discussions and fund this laboratory work via membership or something... I dont know.. Imagine if ther were a sub forum called "Weekly Random Chemical Samples" where a 5 random juices from 3 suppliers each week were investigated and disclosed and we talked about it!!!!
of course this is not the "Most correct" solution but clearly we have to start doing more IMO
