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What is this? Some sort of 'protect the children because they're totally not using apples and soda cans' bullshit?

Why is this in any way necessary or even useful?

Edit: Just discovered this was about tobacco, making this even stupider since this product isn't for tobacco, it's for cannabis. https://dclcorp.com/blog/news/pact-act-impacts-vape-industry/

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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
  • It prevented minors from buying. The ultimate goal was to limit the pathways that tobacco and related products can get to minors. There was a greater emphasis on online retail because it was harder to track the age of consumers.

A vape is a tobacco product and a cannabis product.

“Related” fits the term for cannabis, both are illegal to sell to minors, and both are usually covered by the same law.

Give your head a shake dude, you think you can buy this just because you want to use it for CBD when it can absolutely be bought and used by a minor if it’s “for cannabis” and not explicitly tobacco….?

The law is to prevent implements to consume to minors, which is illegal……..

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Now you're being dishonest. You have no idea what "and related products" means, you're just guessing. I'm not even sure how cannabis is related to tobacco.

That is not evidence to support your claim.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is tobacco illegal to sell to minors?

Is cannabis illegal to sell to minors?

If the answer to both of these questions are yes, and you are still arguing, you need to seriously re-read cannabis and tobacco laws….

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Again, that is not evidence that PACT was intended to restrict minors from using cannabis. It doesn't sound like you have evidence.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

…..

Do you seriously want them to make a second law when tobacco already covers the sale to minor part? I’m sure most other people can draw this parallel…

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I understand this is your opinion. Opinions are not evidence. And yes, laws are supposed to be very precise, especially when dealing with commerce.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s not my opinion, it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars when the laws already cover themselves. It’s illegal because it’s illegal for tobacco, and tobacco and cannabis have the same restrictions. So to restrict one with a law, automatically restricts the other, which is an extremely efficient way to make laws and legislation.

I’m sorry you seem to have a misunderstanding of how laws work. Sober up and reread this dude, seriously.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, commerce laws are supposed to be vague and apply to things not specified in them? Because that sounds like a really good thing for corporations and a really bad thing for everyone else, especially when the government uses those law loopholes to its own ends.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The vape is classified as a tobacco and cannabis product. So what loophole are they using and how’s it vague?

You realize, I only used it for X is a defense that has failed in court countless times, yeah? Theres always precedence and you want to claim ignorance of this. That doesn’t work dude.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Where does it say that the vaporizer is classified as something used for tobacco or cannabis in PACT?

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
  • All electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS”) and substances that can be used with ENDS are held to the same rules as cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products. All regulations that apply to cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products now also apply to all ENDS, which is defined very broadly as “any electronic device that, through an aerosolized solution, delivers nicotine, flavor or any other substance to the user inhaling from the device.” The breadth of this language puts manufacturers of vape pens for use with liquid cannabis, CBD, or other non-nicotine liquids in the untenable position of having to try to comply with a statute intended to regulate tobacco products.

Did YOU even read your own source…..?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The source is an article talking about the law, not the law itself. The law itself is quoted and does not make it clear that it is also about cannabis, which is the problem.

Laws should be clear and precise. I'm not sure why people think otherwise.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It’s covered by the fucking smoking law that covers both. It can be used for tobacco, so it’s has to be covered for all angles, even cannabis, since that’s illegal to smoke like nicotine for smoking laws……..

I’m sorry you can’t comprehend how laws are intertwined, but you’ve also had a dozen people tell you the exact same thing.

Its not easy to explain to you that your shoe is untied is it?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then cannabis should be mentioned in the law. I don't know why it can't be.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why? Because the US congress is a joke, the law would need to be amended, some Jhole is going to put some other legislation with it, or turn it into a crusade so it doesn’t pass. This works.

It’s a nicotine product, done.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does it work? Because kids don't have to sign for a pipe or a bong.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Can a kid go into a headshop and buy one? Bongs can get there too if it’s an issue, but you don’t see many people hitting bongs on the street, while anyone can “discretely” use a vape and you don’t know what it is, and that can also be another issue.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A kid can't go into a head shop and buy a vaporizer either. Because kids can't go into head shops. This isn't about head shops. This is about ordering things over the internet. If you order a cannabis vaporizer online, which is less common to imbibe weed with and generally more expensive, you have to sign for it when it's delivered. If you order a bong or a pipe online, you don't. That makes zero sense.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Because one can be used on the street where it’s illegal to use nicotine and cannabis, while the other is painfully obvious you are breaking federal law if you were to do so.

Vaping makes it easier to smoke illegally in public, nicotine and cannabis. And now it’s also getting in the hands of minors where they can do both in public and no one would know. Thats the fucking problem. It’s illegal to smoke in public, now minors are involved.

But officer it’s legal CBD! It’s illegal to smoke in public!!!!!!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying this stops kids from using cannabis on the street (despite the fact that cannabis vaporizers also smell) but in no other way stops them using it? What's the point of that? They just go use it in the park anyway.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oil vapes smell like anything you want, lots of dry herb vapes can do both, so that’s not even an argument.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

You responded to a tiny part of my overall post which wasn't especially relevant. That is very dishonest. Please respond to the rest. I will repost it without that part since you have addressed it (not to my satisfaction, but we won't go into that):

So you’re saying this stops kids from using cannabis on the street but in no other way stops them using it? What’s the point of that? They just go use it in the park anyway.