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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 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It’s a product for over 18/21 would you be mad for signing for alcohol?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not weed itself. It's also never been a regulation before this year.

Would I be mad signing for alcohol? No.

Would I be mad signing for a cocktail shaker? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If alcohol needed an implement to consume I would have no doubt it would be controlled as well.

Headshops aren’t suppose to sell to minors, since they were skirting the law, now new laws have come out to handle it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except it turns out that this law is about tobacco and not weed at all- https://dclcorp.com/blog/news/pact-act-impacts-vape-industry/

So making me sign for this cannabis vaporizer will definitely have a big impact on the tobacco industry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Weed and tobacco have the same restrictions for selling to minors, no? This can be used for both as well yeah?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did you even read the article? The law is called PACT, which stands for "Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking." It has absolutely nothing to do with cannabis.

Incidentally, you can also use vaporizers for CBD products, and there are no legal age requirements for CBD in many states.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your article makes clear that the amendment to the PACT Act makes it apply broadly.

..."any electronic device that, through an aerosolized solution, delivers nicotine, flavor or any other substance to the user inhaling from the device.”

The article is about how vendors are going to have a difficult time confirming to the new regulations.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

Yes, that was my point. That it was applied too broadly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Do you not comprehend this can be used for stuff illegally for minors, so hence the need to sign to prove not a minor…?

Tobacco/THC doesn’t matter, it can be used. Great you can use it for potpourri or cbd, doesn’t mean it’s not an implement to consume other products illegally if you’re underage.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So can cocktail shakers. So is there a need to sign for a cocktail shaker?

And, again, read the article. This is about tobacco. It's very clear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A cocktail shaker isn’t required to consume alcohol, while cannabis or tobacco need implements….

I’ve read the article, can you not understand that both are illegal for minors to consume, so going to head shop instead of a Tabacco shop isn’t suddenly going to make it legal to sell to minors dude…..

Since it’s illegal for Tobacco that extends to other illegal stuff as well, not a hard concept to wrap around dude.

A vape is a tobacco product, it’s also a cannabis product, who thunk…….

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How about this? You provide evidence to support the idea that this law was in any way intended to restrict minors from using cannabis. I'll wait.

[–] [email protected] 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……..

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 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….

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 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…

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] -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?

[–] [email protected] 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…..?

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 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!!!!!!

[–] [email protected] -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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was fine saying weed in the body, I just thought it was best avoided in the headline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

It’s customary to call it “sticky icky” in titles. May it ever be thus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 6 months ago

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