http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/ECigarettes-Drugs-Marijuana-Vapor-Pens-Smoking-I-Team-227269001.htmlI am listening to the video, thinking, "Hey, pretty cool. Now stoners don't have to be out & loud about it, saving me from having to smell their stinky burning herb. Maybe that demographic might clean up its act a bit. And maybe the legit medical users can keep some handy so they can function better like my gramps did when he was doing chemotherapy."
Then, the inevitable busy-body legicritter pops in with her new law, outlawing them and the fed.gov is going to bring new regs down.
For the love of pete, technological innovation that betters the health of tobacco & wacky tobaccy users and makes the space around them better for non-smokers.
Of course gov't has to quash it.
It’s easy these days to spot people smoking electronic cigarettes – the battery-powered, pen-sized inhalers marketed as cleaner alternatives to their traditional tobacco-packed counterparts.
What may be harder to detect, experts say, is what exactly is inside some of those discreet devices.
More and more, people are smoking marijuana out of e-cigarettes and vapor pens -- right out in the open with little or no fear of getting caught, users and experts say.
"I was on the train from New York to Baltimore and I enjoyed the pen the whole way there and back with no one noticing," said one life-long marijuana user who asked not to be identified. "I absolutely was thinking 'This is not bad at all.'"
Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan,) said concern about young people using e-cigarettes, and the possible gateway to illegal drugs, is what spurred her to introduce a bill that became law last year making it illegal to sell e-cigarettes to minors. It’s also illegal in New Jersey, though there are no age restrictions in Connecticut or under federal law.
"Once you try electronic cigarettes, you can become hooked to them, move on to cigarettes and then move on to other drugs," Rosenthal said.
