G'day! I went to post a competition deal for a dried herb vaporiser, and was surprised to see the retailer was banned from posting.
After a conversation with a moderator, it became apparent that there is a blanket ban on eCigarettes / vaporisers. There are previous threads about it here and here discussing as much.
My point is as follows: while dry herb vaporisers (vapes) have a common name to the nicotine vapes so prevalent in society today, they aren't related to tobacco or nicotine consumption. They're fully legal to be sold and advertised for the use of aromatherapy with all kinds of legal herbs (e.g. "All items on this site are intended for legal aromatherapy purposes only and are not designed for use with nicotine / tobacco / medical products"). Of course, however, it would be obtuse to ignore that they are very commonly used to ingest cannabis, and is a product many have transitioned to for their cannabis consumption to avoid the harmful impacts of ingesting smoke.
I do believe these products sit in an entirely different category to eCigs / nicotine vapes, and that our interpretation of the rule casts too wide of a net to be including these products in our ban.
Look forward to hearing the thoughts of the community, and of course, whatever the case we must ultimately respect the decisions of our hard-working moderators :)
TL;DR – our rule states "Cigarette/Tobacco and related items (banned Australia-wide Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992). Examples of related items: cigarette cases that disguise plain packaging, e-cigarettes." Posting deals for eCigs/vapes can be seen as advertising by the TGA, and OzB could be in trouble for that. That seems totally reasonable. However, at current, it seems OzB interprets that rule in a way that dried herb vaporisers would be included in this too.
@King Tightarse: You are the only one here who has mentioned “gays”.
Thanks for the amusement though, had a little chuckle at you 2 haha