wisepowder: The Stoner’s Guide to Vaping Illness

The Stoner’s Guide to Vaping Illness

20 Nov 2020 at 22:03

The Stoner’s Guide to Vaping Illness


It has been challenging, to say the least, to determine exactly how worried we should be about the phenomenon experts are now calling VAPI (vaping-associated pulmonary illness). It has so far been attributed to 47 deaths and 2,290 confirmed and probable cases in the United States. Most news coverage — and proposed legislative response — has focused on nicotine products like Juul, whose CEO stepped down amidst these public health concerns, replaced by an executive at Altria, a cigarette empire. Walmart, which will continue to sell cigarettes (and guns), has announced plans to stop selling e-cigarettes, and several states have banned them outright.To get more news about vape factory, you can visit univapo official website.

But the CDC has since identified vitamin E acetate as the likely culprit (or, in their words, “chemical of concern”-). The chemical was found present in all 29 fluid samples submitted to the CDC for testing, and has been identified as a once-popular additive in black market THC cartridges. This is not to say that we know all THC cartridges without vitamin E are totally safe; because these products are relatively new, and regulations vary state-to-state, there’s still a lot we don’t know about vaping’s safety. Annoyingly, when we say “vaping,” we could be referring to the use of either e-cigarettes or cannabis, thereby conflating the two. In the early months of the vaping crisis, the weed-related part of the story flew under the radar, except on cannabis-specific sites like Leafly.

Many marijuana advocacy organizations have warned consumers not to buy THC vape products from unlicensed retailers. Meanwhile, the CDC currently recommends total abstention from vaping THC. Before the CDC identified vitamin E as a causal factor, the Cut spoke to a range of experts who study and work with cannabis to determine best practices for cannabis users both casual and frequent in this period of vape-related uncertainty.



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