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Ijoy Wholesale Seems Less Likely to Open Market in Indiana. In a preliminary injunction ruling issued on August 19 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Judge Richard Young decided that Indiana must allow the sale of e-liquid that is not approved by the state’s Alcohol Tobacco Commission. This is the latest major development in a long line of changes that have brought turmoil to Indiana’s e-liquid market.
Controversy first arose in May 2015, when Indiana Republican governor Mike Pence signed House Bill 1432. The bill was intended to “protect public health and safety” in the absence of federal regulations concerning e-liquid products. As it turned out, federal regulations of all kinds of e-liquid products were finalized in May 2016.
The Indiana law was set to go into effect on July 1, though full implementation was delayed at the last minute for another three months. In addition to regulations on manufacturers, the law stipulated that in order to secure the five-year permit required to sell their products in Indiana, e-liquid manufacturers must work with an independent security firm that inspects their products.
Ijoy Wholesale Seems Less Likely to Open Market in Indiana. The requirement to work with a security company is the first of its kind, and the standards placed on approved security companies have nothing to do with producing safe e-liquid. Instead, the law was meant to create a local monopoly. The story of Indiana’s corrupt vaping law has been told and retold over the last year. Now it looks like the state’s legislature may have decided to mop up what’s left of its reputation and fix the problem.
Republican state senate leader David Long told the Indianapolis Business Journal that repairing the bad law will be a priority in next year’s session. As most vapers know, the law created a monopoly for an Indiana security company, and essentially put that business in control of which e-liquid manufacturers would be allowed to sell in the state.
“We’re going to make sure that there’s not a monopoly in that area,” Sen. Long told the IBJ. “And to the extent there is, we’re going to eliminate that. It’s important for us to get it right.” He claimed the creation of the monopoly was “inadvertent.” “We’re going to change that, and hopefully open the door to a fair and open market,” Long explained to reporter Hayleigh Colombo. “That’s what we want to see.” Sen. Randy Head of Logansport will be spearheading passage of a new bill next year, according to Long. Sen. Head voted against the 2015 and 2016 vaping bills in the senate.
Ijoy Wholesale Seems Less Likely to Open Market in Indiana. Lawmakers who proposed and supported the law had connections to the security firm in question, and also to a casino company which had several employees involved with e-liquid companies seeking to do business in the state. The story is so twisted, the FBI reportedly questioned some state legislators regarding their support for the law. The Indiana legislature knows now that their handling of this situation will be under a magnifying glass. Vapers and vendors in the state will be watching closely, and reporters will have their eyes peeled for any exciting new developments.
