Well that’s the whole idea with a blunt wrap.
It doesn’t come with the 90%.
I mean some of them are just cones. Fill and twist. It’s great for my tourist ass.
Back in my day it was blunt guts up hill both ways in the snow. (that actually sounds way worse).
That is what they are doing. There’s no possession ban, and I think no retail ban. It’s 100% production and distribution.
Federally to be clear.
But I wouldn’t discount the excuse of black market/smuggled cigarettes. That’s what they murdered Eric Garner for.
I think the concern would be that checking for menthols would become an additional excuse for stop and frisks over unlicensed cigarette sales. Not that that sort of thing tends to matter for this shit, but there’s nothing in the law that would justify that.
But thing is Canada and Europe banned both menthol and all other flavors a decade back, so there’s not anywhere to smuggle them from. I guess maybe Mexico?
As a smoker. Who spent a lot of time buying smuggled cigarettes and loosies on Brooklyn street corners and Bodegas. Not long after flavored smokes were banned. The under the table guys actual ran out of them waaaaay faster than the legit vendors. Though it seems to be the opposite with Juuls and vapes.
The excuse to raid those guys was the lack of tax stamps. Not what they were specifically selling.
To whatever extent that’s a going to be a problem. It’s cause our policing is fucked. And I don’t see how “don’t regulate bad things” is a solution to that over “unfuck our policing”.
