January 1, Richard Burr on bureaucrats fueling nicotine black markets

Wyatt’s Take

• Former Senator Richard Burr says federal delays are blocking legal nicotine alternatives.
• He argues the FDA’s slow approvals are helping a black market grow.
• The article cites seizures of illegal nicotine products and concerns about cartels.

Unelected federal agents are making our communities less safe by blocking legal alternatives to cigarettes.

Former Senator Richard Burr warns that government stalling has created a massive black market for nicotine products.

Instead of helping Americans make better choices, the FDA is dragging its feet on safe products.

This failure gives a massive opening to foreign cartels to flood our streets with unregulated goods.

• Deep state regulators are ignoring 180-day review rules and picking industry winners and losers.
• Failing to approve legal vapes has left over 6,000 unauthorized products available on the open market.
• Border agents recently seized $86 million in illegal units being smuggled into the country.

Burr notes that the current regulatory mess is a direct result of bureaucrats who think they know better than the American consumer.

He spent years on the Senate Intelligence Committee and sees these illicit supply lines as a major national security threat.

“It was Congress’s belief over 15 years ago when we passed the Tobacco Control Act, that if industry would invest in new technologies, that we would set up a mechanism for those products to be approved. That’s what’s failed.”

The former senator argues that the government must stop distorting the marketplace.

When regulators block legal nicotine pouches and vapes, they aren’t stopping use; they are just handing the business to criminals.

“There’s a huge difference between [elected lawmakers] and regulators who determine that they’re the ones who are going to distort the marketplace, and when they do that, they ignore what goes on without it.”

Lawmakers need to step up and provide real oversight of the FDA to protect our families from these dangerous black markets.

Middle America deserves a government that follows its own rules instead of helping cartels grow their reach.

Wyatt Matters

Working-class families deserve the freedom to choose legal alternatives without bureaucrats pushing them toward a dangerous black market run by cartels.

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