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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
I ordered a cigarette rolling machine and some papers. Will someone have to sign that is above 18?
I ordered it from herbal smoke shop and it says that an adult will have to sign for all package deliverys. But in the email with the receipt, it says orders that are 100$ or more MUST be signed. My order was not that much though.
Also if it does have to get signed, will it list what is in the box when my parents have to sign? I’m 15 btw.
Particular definitions:
Herbal smoke shop = place to buy all the things necessary to enjoy what you, as a minor, can’t buy legally anywhere. The irony: both tobacco & marijuana are herbs, but since the gov’t makes a tremendous profit from sales of the first, they keep it legal. Since they make a tremendous profit from keeping the second illegal, until they can make more profit by legalizing it, it’ll stay that way.
re: Adult Signature Req’d = releases seller/shipper from charges of contributing to delinquency, etc. Also issues of “informed consent” & “responsible party” may apply.
Reading your above question, you write that they state that ASR, but that >$100 ASR. Both would seem to apply; if the latter doesn’t, the former certainly would seem to.
Many areas/jurisdictions have long banned “paraphernalia”, esp. that which is specifically (or exclusively) used for enjoying black-market products.
In your case, even if you don’t intend to use any of that which Uncle Sam doesn’t approve, in any area that I’m familiar, you are still too young to be using tobacco; even if that weren’t the case & you only intend to enjoy some other non-classified herbal product, it would still most likely be a gray area in the law, your being below the age of what is known as “informed consent” (i.e., you’re too young to be recognized as being able to make an informed & responsible decision).
This also brings to question how you were able to pay for your order, or is it COD?
Look, please don’t take me wrong; I’m all about freedom of choice, but that’s Informed & Responsible choice. Let your body & mind finish growing before you go enjoying abusing it. My granddad died of lung cancer, & my mother died of CHF largely due to smoking. My great uncle had a portion of his tongue removed as a result of pipe-smoking & he still died of it. Even smoking “safe” herbs brings nicotine in thru your lungs (the burning of any vegetal matter releases nicotine as a by-product of the combustion, even charcoal into grilled food; I love to grill & won’t use gas or electric, but I’m much older & know the risks).
Umm… I think that your first answer was right, unless you can find someone else (older sibling?) to stand-in as “parent”. Considering how you paid for it, perhaps you can somehow return it? Is it being shipped to your home, or to a POB? How’s it being shipped, via USPS or private carrier like UPS or FEDEX? (Sometimes shipments can be refused & returned to the shipper)
Last resort, & I don’t recommend it, is simply denying you ordered it, or claiming you got for someone else as a gift, although that’s going to open up a whole new can of worms for you. I’m not going to explain how you might use a dollar bill to roll with, or that you might be able to find papers locally… there’s nothing wrong with a mistake as long as you learn from it.
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