Comment on Had to buy a certain product to use a certain substance and there's a really stupid new law.
insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 6 months ago
I could see it in the specific case of a cheap (steam) vape pen purchased without debit/bank card off of a general store site. They check the mail and pocket it, get vape juice from somebody. Charge+fill and it's ready with time. Similar for concentrates, portable dry vaporizers (or something like dynavap) maybe a bit less.
A $100+ desktop dry vaporizer purchased from a dedicated website seems like it'd be harder to hide unless parents are really inattentive. Miss the delivery at the door, them carrying it in (+branded boxes), a dedicated spot plugged in, and an almost ritual to properly heat up the glass/material that might give it away (glass clinking, balloon bag filling, fan on/off etc).
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yep. It was a dry vaporizer. From Vapor Genie if anyone is curious. It is definitely not intended to be used for tobacco. I think it would just burn the tobacco rather than vaporizing it.
insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 6 months ago
I mean if the temperature is set low enough (also convection) it should prevent combustion(/harmful byproducts) for most materials. Like under 200C especially.
Although I'm not sure vaporizing tobacco intended for smoking would taste all that great and smokers generally don't seem to care anyway. Sounds gross to me, then again so does nicotine in general.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In this particular case, it’s not an electronic vaporizer, it uses a butane flame as the heating element, so the temperature would not get low enough. Works great for cannabis though.
insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 6 months ago
I saw that after posting. I'm not sure if the shipping law depends on the product but I got an Extreme Q from Arizer years ago and just checked: there is no mention of a required signature (though being a desktop unit and twice the price, it is a different product).
So maybe you could've just bought from somewhere else, assuming this is the seller being overly cautious and not a wide-sweeping law.