Georgia House Welcomes ‘False’ Comments About Registry – Vapor Voice

Earlier this year, the Georgia Legislature adjourned before the Senate could consider House Bill 1260, also known as the Georgia Nicotine Vapor Products Directory Act. If passed, the bill would have established a registry of vape products for which premarket tobacco product applications (PMTA) had been approved or were pending with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Manufacturers would voluntarily add their products to the register.

According to the reports of FilterLawmakers formed the Safety & Consumer Protection of Nicotine Vapor Products Study Committee in March. During committee meetings Sept. 5 and Sept. 9, law enforcement officials and school administrators took turns giving wildly false testimony about how American teenagers are being killed en masse by unregulated, disposable flavored vapes imported from China.

The Sept. 9 meeting featured a slideshow titled Flavored Disposable Vape – The New Face of Organized Crime, which detailed how the epidemic was leading children down a path of transnational drug trafficking. The slideshow was kept off-screen during the livestream because it apparently contained top-secret law enforcement information.

“Again, everything is Chinese, from China. What else is China bringing to the United States?” asked co-host Carlos Sandoval. “Methamphetamine. Cocaine. Vapes are another new product, it opens a new door for organized crime and cartels.”

Despite the fact that both the study committee and the bill that was introduced ostensibly deal with nicotine vapor products, the committee seemed to be about equally preoccupied with THC, describing both as “highly addictive” and “silent killers,” often interchangeably.

A former principal testified that one of the few interventions she found helpful in preventing vaping at her school was a “rewards program” that used a school communications platform to offer small rewards to students who vaped.

“A student could go there and report someone vaping in the bathroom,” she said, “and if we could prove it, they would get a $25 gift card. We called it ‘Snitches Get Riches.’”