I don’t know if this has been mentioned already, I didn’t see it anywhere. Anyways I thought I’d do the safe thing and order from a reputable dealer in New Zealand, namely Mixology. I supplied my valid prescription and placed my order for 250ml salt nicotine (which was well within my allowance on my prescription), on the 3rd February. Australia post tells me it hasn’t even been updated in their system.
This is where I think the Australian government has really crossed a line with the ban even before it was implemented. On February 13th my order was placed “on hold” by customs. Wasn’t just me, it was 1000’s of vapers who ordered from Mixology. The federal police/customs were obviously instructed to go the “make it difficult as possible” route. Mixology was told the orders would all be returned or destroyed if they didn’t provide a huge amount of (irrelevant) information. Examples are descriptions and lists of all items in the customers order, along with ensuring that most customers had a prescription. The prescription is a perfectly acceptable request, its the little extra things that customs required to add more delay. Mixology had to show that every single order didn’t exceed the prescriptions limits.
Although these may seem not that bad, its the blatant implementation of delay to make receiving your order as hard as possible. I’ve placed so, so, many orders for liquid nicotine over the years and haven’t ever hit any bumps. After the law that a prescription was required, I got one. In all those orders my script was placed on the outside of the package, and guess what? Not a single one WAS EVER opened to check contents or details of the prescription.
This delay has happened nearly a month before March 1st, and all the people who do the right thing and ordered early not wanting to risk missing the deadline, pretty much did. I still haven’t received my completely LEGAL and valid order placed nearly a month ago, (which I also paid extra for express postage). To be honest, I don’t fancy my chances of ever getting this order now it’s past the ban date. Mixology was always a preplanned target, that’s not a conspiracy theory, I’ve got some examples as to why I think this. The main being:
A lot of fellow friends ordered from smaller NZ nicotine suppliers, some even without a prescription, and every single person received their order without a hitch. All used couriers, I should have chose this option.
I have plenty of valid points I could make against our “health minister” Mr. Butler’s reasons for “needing” this ban. But I wont, the word “valid” must have a different meaning in Mr Butlers dictionary.
Everybody has their theories of the real reason this ban was deemed necessary. So I’ll share mine.
I think its purely financial. The government has seen a massive loss in cigarette tax since vaping has become a better option for people being successful in stopping smoking. Not once, not a single word was mentioned by our health minister on the nearly 30000 people that die per year from cigarette smoking. I could go on, and on and on and on. I’ll finish with my message to our health minister…
You, Mr Butler have made a very poor decision with this law. The ban is now in motion! Yet locals here are already offering inflated priced liquid nicotine, which is definitely unsafe. They don’t want to go back to smoking so what do they do Mark? I and many other vapers know the answer to that question. I think you do to Mark, that’s the sad thing with those such as yourself, the ability of being able to handle being honest to not only to us voters, but being honest with yourself.
, and I’ve tried to engage with them but no reply at all. Please update if you have any success.
