Is this real? Luke Doka Posted this in Vapefest 2013: https://facebook/events/125558750975767/ An event is planned for the same weekend in Cali. I know what happened in Chicago. And found out why it happened. Posting information forwarded to me. Is this happening again? The truth about the Vaping “community” Many of you were not around 4+ years ago… so here is a summary to catch you up. In March 2009, a small group of vapers in Long Island, NY started local monthly vape meets. Shortly after that an indoor use ban was proposed in Long Island. The group had raffles and raised some funds and decided to do research on ecigs to try to determine if they were safe for indoor use. A few months later they planned the first ever National Vape meet called Vapefest which was held in Virginia in March 2010. At the event they raised more funds having auctions and raffles with donated prizes from vendors who attended. They raised enough that they started National Vapers Club (NVC). In September 2010 NVC held Midwest Vapefest in St. Louis and raised more funds. Then in March 2011, at suggestion from a lawyer, NVC created a list of standards required to sponsor NVC events (childproof caps, no nic over 60mg sold to consumers, no drug flavored or drug laced liquids, etc.) and required that people selling at the event pay for a table rather than having table donation be voluntary. NVC held Philly Vapefest and charged to get into the event to raise funds more quickly as the bans were coming more frequently and they needed the research as evidence in order to stop them. A group of vapers with high visibility in the vaping community (we will call them the SHC) were angry that there was a charge to get in and did not like the new rules as previous events had been free for guests and vendors had no restrictions on selling. This was the beginning of the end. It was announced at Philly Vapefest that Vegas Vapefest would be held in September 2011. The SHC decided to have their own “free” event and planned it for the weekend before Vegas Vapefest but planned it in Virginia in an attempt to pull people away from the Vegas event and put a stop to the fundraising and completion of the indoor vapor air quality study known as the IVAQS Project (IVAQS). The SHC accidentally planned the event on a big Jewish holiday and thus the dates had to be changed so the event ended up happening a few weeks after Vegas Vapefest. Because of the date change and the distance between the 2 events, in September 2011, Vegas Vapefest was very successful and went well. The SHC got mad. SHC publicly accused misappropriation of funds raised from the Vapefest events without any evidence of such. Just after Vegas Vapefest, NVC planned Chicago Vapefest for March 2012 to raise enough funds for completion and publication of IVAQS Project. SHC immediately planned another national vape meet, this time just miles away from where Chicago Vapefest was being held on the SAME weekend as Chicago Vapefest. At Chicago Vapefest NVC announced the peer review and upcoming publication of the IVAQS Paper. Once people realized the funds WERE actually used for the study, the SHC got angry because they were very publicly proven wrong. In December 2012, NVC announced NY Vapefest coming in March 2013. SHC planned a meeting the same weekend as this event also in NY in an attempt to draw people from the event. NVC planned SoCal Vapefest for January 2014 and SHC planned an event the same month also in LosAngeles. NVC cancelled the contract in LA and scheduled Vegas Vapefest 2013 for September 2013. Last week, SHC announced an e-cig convention for the same dates as Vegas Vapefest 2013 just a few hours away in Southern California to once again pull funds away from the new research project. NVC was the first activist group for e-cig users in the US and has been a tremendous asset to the community providing vital research and support against vaping bans nationwide. The SHC has split the community so badly it would be difficult to repair and their hate destroyed the strong bond once found in the vaping community. It stands to question, what sort of people would not want to see a united community of vapers coming together to achieve the research needed to help keep vaping legal? And what kind of vendors would support these people? Perhaps only vendors who didn’t know the truth.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:48:40 +0000
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