Tim

Woooooot!!!!!!!!!

I have a question. It seems to me that getting all the components for a good e-juice -- except NICOTINE -- is easy and cheap sourcing here in the US. What would be so bad about selling juice without the nic? It tastes great, you can make it with a fine throat hit and vapor, so why the question about Chinese-sourced ingredients? I think that is an issue we can get around. As for the rest of it: the drug-delivery issue of the hardware, etc.; -- this juice issue should be straight forward. Unless it's not. Let us not focus on the things we cannot control and that are problematic. Perhaps there's a middle way. Nicotine is not, I think, the categorical imperative. We need to focus on the sustenance if our businesses. We are NOT in the nicotine delivery business. Some may disagree. I would like to hear your thoughts.

While it would seem that this is about nicotine on the one hand -- that e-juice without it should not be subject to regulation -- on the other it seems much more likely the FDA will say that all juice is subject to regulation as it potentially contains all manner of substances. This could put us all out of the liquids business. Additionally they are claiming the devices themselves are drug-delivery devices irrespective, presumably, of what they are delivering. If e-cigs are ruled as such, as drug-delivery devices, then only the deep pockets will be able to play. The reason PM et al has been silent about marketing a device, one should think, is because they have been playing the legislative game behind the scenes while developing their own devices and liquids. This is surely a war. A war in which none of us stands a chance of survival alone and but a marginal chance together. Certainly we must to the best of our efforts hang together lest, as Benjamin Franklin once opined, we will surely hang separately. What we need as suppliers is a code of conduct. Both from an ethical standpoint as well as a protocol for dealing with government agencies. This necessitates legal counsel of course. And there are a number of e-cig organizations out there, one, some or all of which may prove an effective vanguard. The thing for all of us is to be on the same page. Thoughts?

Awesome!

No surprises about this. I doubt Russia has a leg to stand on, China is in better shape. However most currencies around the world face big problems. Fiat currency is the issue; central banks cannot control themselves and are proven to consistently inflate their respective currencies. One wonders whether a move toward a hard commodity currency is inevitable. A world currency is scary, but not as much as one may imagine. It is stupendously dubious that the world, as it were, could ever hold together such a scheme. The Euro, for example, is falling apart. This within one continent. I don't think countries 12,000 miles apart will be willing to bail one another out. Fiat currency is a scam perpetuated by the huge financial institutions, the Fed, et al. These guys know how to "make" money, not earn it.