I feel horrible for Nixteria (formerly JuicyVapor). In 2013 the founder/owner was tried for the sexual abuse of an adolescent girl in his family. I don't recall all of the details. I think it was a stepdaughter, and it was about making her watch porn with him on his cell phone, and then doing things to himself in front of her, on her bed. He was convicted in the vaping community before the trial even began. If you wrote JuicyVapor in this forum, it was blotted out with ***** because he was assumed guilty until proven otherwise. Because of this pre-trial conviction of this man, I followed the case at the time. He was cleared of all charges due to zero evidence, no history of porn on his phone ever, no physical evidence in the mattress or carpet (bodily fluids, hair, DNA, etc.), and the daughter was found to have some separate sexual misconduct of her own which had nothing to do with him.
Once the case was dismissed, or he was found innocent, or however it worked, I started buying all my eliquids from his company, for the underdog, excellent products, great sale prices, fast service (though lately his shipping has gotten a bit out of hand). Anyway, his operation is in upstate New York, where there is now a flavor ban, so the Nixteria emails have been announcing a closing date.
How can there be a contingency plan, unless, years ago, you started selling soaps and lotions or something else alongside your vape products? Move to another state, where next month some other hypocrite on a soapbox will announce a ban?
I also wonder if all of this has anything to do with the role of China in the US economy. Vaping is entirely illegal in Thailand, buying it, selling it, vaping at all. You can get a 10 year jail sentence for being caught vaping. A friend who traveled there recently theorized it had to do with Thailand-China relations.
One thing is so clear to me: politicians never, ever work for the people, not any of them.
