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Isn't this what some people want? All addictive drugs to be legalized so people can make their own decisions to take or not?

• smt88 8y ago
  This lawsuit has nothing to do with legalization of drugs. It's about a company profiting from users' addictions, and those users are suing the company. In this case, Juul engineered a product that causes a nicotine spike that increases the chance of addiction. This isn't unlike any other lawsuit where consumers sue a company for engineering a dangerous product without proper warnings.
  • pkaye 8y ago
    Of course nicotine is legal and addictive. Did people not know that? All the illegal drugs are already being engineered to make them more addictive. IF they are made legal, will their manufacturers also be sued?
    • smt88 8y ago
      I don't have the energy to get into the history of this type of lawsuit, but in US common law (and under some statutes, too), companies may be sued when the user of a product has a reasonable expectation that a product will perform one way, and then it performs another. The most famous (and universally misunderstood[1]) case is the woman who got 3rd-degree, flesh-falling-off burns from McDonald's coffee and sued them successfully. It was reasonable for the woman to expect hot coffee, as one would find in one's home. McDonald's served her much hotter coffee without warning her beforehand, which led to her underestimating how dangerous handling that coffee could be. All McDonald's had to do was tell her it was very hot. Juul is in a worse position because engineering addiction is much more malicious than engineering extra-hot coffee that saves the company money. 1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkL9UlmCOE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCkL9UlmCOE