I disagree with your assertion that making possessing unpacked round cell lithium ion batteries a crime would render that point moot. Sure, it would create a black market where there isn't one. But it certainly wouldn't make loose cells inaccessible. It would just be utterly naive to think like that.I said a year ago that all the nanny state bureaucrats have to do is ban the sale of individual cells to permanently cripple vaping as we've known it. Even IF the good folks at Molicell, or some other competent upstart were to seize the entrepreneurial moment and find a way to get us good "cells for vapers" in the vacuum left by the retreating OEMs, a simple ban would kill that too.
Harvested batteries will not replace our known good cells at decent prices. I have several laptop packs I've taken apart and who knows what these things are in here? I haven't found a pair yet that will even let a regulated mod start fully charged.
If somebody comes across a certain pack with great cells, there's no guarantee that they will be the ones in there the next time you buy one of those packs. Besides, if they make possessing unpacked round cell lithium ion batteries a crime, that point is moot too.
Like I say, I said starting a year ago somewhere here that BATTERIES will be the real war.
If they want to stop legal vaping, they ARE going to do it. That's not negative nay-saying. That's the reality of where we are, indeed have been for decades in this country. Let them "take care of you," and boy will they ever.
I mean, if the only vaping products available to be legally sold will be severely underpowered closed pod systems mass produced and monopolized by Big Tobacco, do you REALLY think people like me will stop vaping how they prefer to vape? Seriously? lol... just lol