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Re:E cigarette by rms on Friday July 17, 2009 @05:49AM (#709576)
One thing I've wondered about as a working substitute for cigarettes is smokeable plant matter that isn't poisonous, mildly psychoactive or not. Could it be legal to sell smokeable plant matter flavored to taste like tobacco (or anything) but with no tobacco in it? The nicotine addiction could be tapered with any of the existing remedies, but of course in the US it is impossible to market your new smoking cessation device as having anything at all to do with smoking cessation.

Unfortunately, in the USA it's basically impossible to sell anything other than tobacco rolled into convenient smokable units, even if it's otherwise Generally Recognized as Safe by the FDA, because nothing you smoke is on the FDA GRAS list. Tobacco is grandfathered into legality.

Is this your site? (no, it's not his site, this submission should be flagged to death)

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Re:E cigarette by csbartus on Friday July 17, 2009 @06:31AM (#709617)
We are selling them in Romania, no legal issues. Here even one can sell legally marijuana substitues called Spice.

I've tried the spice too but it is far from the illegal stuff: the taste is the same, you don't get high, and you'll get the usual hangover.

e-cigarette site: http://smuff.ro spice site: http://espice.ro/

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Re:E cigarette by rms on Friday July 17, 2009 @06:49AM (#709631)
Which email address on those sites is yours?
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Re:E cigarette by csbartus on Friday July 17, 2009 @07:10AM (#709656)
cs at smuff.ro
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