So, the local milk store is now carrying fake cigarettes - devices

[hedgehog]

that look like a cigarette that allow the user to inhale nicotine without spreading second hand smoke. My son suggested they may be cheaper than real cigarettes and may by-pass tobacco taxes.

Which raises the question - how soon before someone figures out how to use these devices to substitute for marijuana joints, and how would any law enforcement person have any idea what you're really inhaling?

[PeaceNikki]

1. It's a vaporizing device.

Pot smokers have been doing it for eons.

[Blue-Jay]

2. Willie Nelson uses the Volcano vaporizer.

It's not a cig-looking device, but the idea is still the same.

:hi:

[PeaceNikki]

3. He's a wise man.

:hi:

[davidinalameda]

4. I have a friend who uses one

for his "medicinal" pot

[PeaceNikki]

5. It's a safe and effective method.

Studies have shown that vaporizing cannabis exposes the user to substantially lower levels of harmful substances than smoking cannabis.

Here's a Wiki article with supporting links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporizer_(cannabis)

[davidinalameda]

6. that's good to know

since I used it with him a few times

:evilgrin:

[formernaderite]

7. Who cares?

As long as it's an Adult who's buying... it's nobody's business whether they smoke cigarettes or anyting else. Frankly, the smoking Nazi's make me one to start again.

[Adsos Letter]

8. Milk store?

[hedgehog]

16. A local dairy runs a chain of stores that started out selling milk,

but now are more a convenience store - milk, beer, ice cream, over priced cereal and snacks, gasoline, tobacco, lottery tickets etc.

Nothing like standing in line with 4 gallons of milk in glass while the guy in front scratches off his lottery ticket......

[Warren DeMontague]

9. That's a fearsome prospect.

I haven't been so upset since I realized that birth control pills might allow people to fuck for pleasure without fear of punishment.

[TheKentuckian]

10. I'm getting the vapors

[enuegii]

11. I hate to break this to you, but

did you know that you can take an apple (or a potato, turnip, etc) and carve a bowl-shaped depression in the top, fashion a small channel in the side, and then smoke pot with it?
What ever will we do? How will law enforcement persons know if those apples are for eating, or for huffing the devil's weed?

[K8-EEE]

12. Eric Roberts on "Celeb Rehab" is rehabbing from vaporized pot

that is the first time I'd ever heard of it but apparently serious users have had these machines for a long time.

[Historic NY]

13. Isn't nicotine considered a drug by the FDA?

[blogslut]

14. The latest (over)ruling

...the judge told the FDA to classify e-cigs as tobacco products as opposed to classifying them as drug delivery devices.

[blogslut]

15. They don't get hot enough

The liquid/flavor/nicotine mix in an e-cigarette is heated via a tiny battery. The devices are incapable of igniting marijuana.

I suppose it's possible that someone has/could develop an odorless form of liquid marijuana and that it could be inserted into the flavor cartridge of an e-cig. But really, you can buy pinch-hitters at any head shop and they look exactly like a cigarette.

[hedgehog]

17. My son and I were wondering about bong water - we've both

heard the phrase, but neither one of us has any idea if bong water contains marijuana or is merely totally disgusting.