Had to buy a certain product to use a certain substance and there's a really stupid new law. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Are you seriously complaining about requiring a signature? Why should weed paraphernalia be treated any differently to tobacco?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Since it requires me to be at home when I've never had to for this before? Yes.

And it should be treated differently because the law is about tobacco. if they want to make it about weed, they should specify that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think you may be forgetting that weed is illegal, federally. The product you're buying is for tobacco -- officially -- because if it weren't it would be a federal crime to ship it across state borders.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You don't have to sign for a bong, despite it officially being used for tobacco.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But it doesn’t contain tobacco (at the time of delivery) and isn’t electronic.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same with the vaporizer I bought.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Porch pirates.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think so. A law specifically stopping porch pirates from stealing vaporizers?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mean, if enough vaporizers have to be re-shipped because they were stolen before they're received, yes, of course. You're not going to expect to pay a second time for something you never received. The insurance company (I assume this is medical use?) or the supplier doesn't want to pay a second time. Of course they're going to make you sign. It's not a law to stop porch pirates, it's a law to reduce costs.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

It's not a medical vaporizer but yes, it is for medical use. The 'certain substance' is definitely the issue here considering the stupid drug war.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, buddy. There's not any indication that's even a law and not just policy from the company selling the device.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

"Recent regulations" means law. Companies don't call their own policies regulations, they call them policies.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

That doesn't mean the law says signatures are required. It could only be how the company chose to respond to the law. Got a citation?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sure. I just added it in an edit.

https://dclcorp.com/blog/news/pact-act-impacts-vape-industry/

I really don't know why you think they would say that recent regulations require a signature if it wasn't true that recent regulations required a signature. Just lying for the hell of it?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Take off your tinfoil hat. Maybe set down the vape. Lying? I was responding to incomplete information. Not everything's a conspiracy. This is an old law now being applied to new technology. Nothing infuriating about it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have a tinfoil hat because you were the one claiming that a site saying that there were new regulations requiring something was a lie?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Dude, you're going off the rails...

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

It’s so they aren’t shipping to minors….

[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, yes, now that OP quit dancing around his vape pen use and provided a source, I see that.

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