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I think they should put the tiny print on the contents. Let the community decide. That seems to have worked with tabacco. I want an informed, even evangelical

I think they should put the tiny print on the contents. Let the community decide. That seems to have worked with tabacco. I want an informed, even evangelical society when it comes to comsumption. I want people to be allowed to choose how they live their life, at least privately. If you can be a functioning meth-head, do so. If you can't, die without harming others on your way out. I know that is a harsh view, but look at the alternative: the present system. We incarcerate individuals for safely smoking a meriad of drugs in the backyard, apartment or stoop. We spend, speaking as an American, $60-80k a year to confine these people. Even if one makes the argument that drugs keep people on welfare, welfare is far cheaper and freer, in the rights sense. So too this drug. Label it, warn, perhaps even tax, but don't let it be an excuse to prevent vaping. States, in my opinion, are itching for a reason to block this new product. Stop them now. Otherwise how can we innovate to an alternative for tabacco?

reddytowns 11y ago
> I think they should put the tiny print on the contents. Let the community decide. That seems to have worked with tabacco. Right.... because the heaps of information that gets dumped on you whenever you receive a prescription drug or go in to surgery is oh so helpful. You are basically advocating for an expansion of this. If a vaporize contains 100 different chemicals, and all of them come along with pages of information, the user won't be able to grok it all and realize that one of them is probably going to seriously screw them in a few years. I don't know what you expect an informed consumer to look like, but having a person reading a booklet of medical jargon to determine health risks for each drug they take is extremely unrealistic. So, the government is right here. We need to ban certain chemicals because there is no other way. Life is too complicated as it is.
- logn 11y ago
  I don't think most people would read such a label. But some people would and some of them would write articles summarizing it. Much like terms of use statements on websites. Further, legislators and scientists would have access to these labels which could help guide policy and research.
  - Already__Taken 11y ago
    So what you're advocating for here is an eternal september of terrible respiratory problems as people perpetually find these products for sale?
    - logn 11y ago
      I did not say that.

reddytowns 11y ago

> I think they should put the tiny print on the contents. Let the community decide. That seems to have worked with tabacco. Right.... because the heaps of information that gets dumped on you whenever you receive a prescription drug or go in to surgery is oh so helpful. You are basically advocating for an expansion of this. If a vaporize contains 100 different chemicals, and all of them come along with pages of information, the user won't be able to grok it all and realize that one of them is probably going to seriously screw them in a few years. I don't know what you expect an informed consumer to look like, but having a person reading a booklet of medical jargon to determine health risks for each drug they take is extremely unrealistic. So, the government is right here. We need to ban certain chemicals because there is no other way. Life is too complicated as it is.

logn 11y ago
I don't think most people would read such a label. But some people would and some of them would write articles summarizing it. Much like terms of use statements on websites. Further, legislators and scientists would have access to these labels which could help guide policy and research.
- Already__Taken 11y ago
  So what you're advocating for here is an eternal september of terrible respiratory problems as people perpetually find these products for sale?
  - logn 11y ago
    I did not say that.