It's been needed, IMO, despite a few flubs that have arisen.
We've come a long way, but have so much farther to go. Any positive action, innovation, and company in the past 2 years (that new vapers couldn't even imagine), has resulted from this forum...
A new industry always begins dirty, then it begs for regulation. The US is farther along, yet we look to the UK? Hopefully this can be self regulation, but in our current state, we are farther away from self regulation than Oprah is from giving up her ice cream and full body spanx.
Few realize that ONLY money will win this issue and continue to stand on soap boxes, with assumptive, selfish requests and expectations, coupled with naive, ignorant goals like getting the government to sit down and "discuss things", as if this were about harm reduction or health, and not money.
Other grunts open companies and sometimes make liquid with schedule F drugs, when they couldn't otherwise get a job at a low level supermarket, making the liquid they mop the floor with go down the drain. In turn they provide a business quality that continually begs for regulation, sets the industry back, and hurts customers. But isn't that Lorann's premixed flavoring mixed with nicotine, PG/VG and marked up 500% delicious? I just wished they used blue felt tip marker instead of black, so it would be more like my coca-cola bottling.............
Fortunately for the brave(ish) folks here willing to speak the truth, and ECF, along with some sensible, business minded, reasonably sane companies, we have driven the market in a more positive direction.
But we have so much farther to go.
Until then.....stay tuned for Groundhog Day....I mean 2012, where more vendors will close up shop, more will open up shop, some will open under different names, some will pop up in different ways, but most of them will stuff your hard earned dollars in their pocket and not do a darn thing about ensuring a brighter future for vaping.
Keep loud and keep the faith Canada.....but money WILL win.
