When you walk into Cloud X in Muskego, you’ll find cigarettes, nicotine pouch products, cigars and other items. But what you’ll have a hard time discovering are vape devices and products.
“That’s basically our main item in our store, vape products,” Tajammul ‘TJ’ Syed said.
Those products make up a majority of owner TJ Syed’s sales and are the most popular in his store. Now he’s left with just a few.
“Pretty much everything is gone,” Syed said.
This is due to a state law (Wisconsin Statute 995.15) now in effect that requires owners like TJ to only sell products that fall on the Wisconsin Department of Revenue list of approved items or face a $1,000 fine per day per item. A total of 216 items are on the list, but Syed said only a handful of companies make up that list…