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Make Your Voice Heard: Join AHVA’s Advocacy Day

As you enjoy your weekend or prepare for the week ahead, don’t forget to plan for AHVA’s Advocacy Day at the Alabama State House on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, from 9 AM to 3 PM.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Our industry faces the potential loss of all smokeable products, leaving only edible products and drinks capped at 5mg per serving. On top of that, legislators want to impose a hefty tax, leaving consumers with weaker products that are more expensive.

Advocacy Day is your chance to meet directly with your local legislators and share how these changes would impact you and others in our community. This is a crucial opportunity to stand up for the products we rely on and ensure our voices are heard.

If we don’t show up and speak out, these changes could become a reality. Let’s come together, advocate for fair regulations, and protect access to these essential products.

See you at the State House on Tuesday!

🚨🚨🚨We need everyone to Email your House of Representatives member starting now until noon tomorrow and tell them to vote no on HB 8. Your rights to v**e are at risk of being gone. 🚨🚨

🚨 Call to Action: Protect Small Businesses and Fight for Sensible Regulation! 🚨

Tomorrow, Alabama HB8 will move to the House floor for a vote, and we need your voice to stop it!

This bill would cripple small, locally-owned v**e shops by requiring all v***r products—including those containing CBD—to be registered on the ENDS directory. This directory was specifically designed for ni****ne products, and expanding it to include all v***r products and CBD creates unnecessary red tape. Meanwhile, convenience stores remain unregulated and free to sell similar products with less oversight, doing nothing to enhance child safety.

HB8 unfairly targets responsible small businesses while ignoring meaningful ways to protect children from underage sales. True regulation should focus on moving these products to 21+ establishments where strict policies and accountability are already in place.

📢 We need your help to urge representatives to VOTE NO on HB8 tomorrow!
• Call your House representatives and tell them this bill hurts small businesses while failing to address real concerns.
• Email or write your representative and demand fair, thoughtful regulation that actually works to keep products out of children’s hands.

It’s time to stand with small businesses and advocate for legislation that is fair, effective, and focused on true solutions. Don’t let HB8 pass without a fight!

🗓 Act now—our future depends on it.

Donations and membership dues can be made at www.AHVA.us to help fund the fight!

Please take a moment to call and email these senators.

🚨 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 🚨

HB65 is set for a public hearing on Thursday 4/4 to determine the fate of adult choice on the products we depend on daily as ADULTS! We need EVERYONE to make phone calls to the members of this committee to let them know we urge them to vote NO on this bill. If this bill passes this session ALL disposable products and almost all v**e products will be banned in the state forcing thousands back to dangerous ci******es. Please help us stand up for adult access!
https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdfdocs/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/HB65-eng.pdf