It's not the THC.

[jayfish]

thc vitamin e acetate

It's black market THC products that use vitamin E acetate as a thickening agent. Actaully, after reading the following I'm beginning to think it's all coincidence being seized on by BT and the Nanny State.

Hunt for Cause of Vaping Illness Suggests Multiple Mechanisms of Damage

In a case series published on September 6 in the New England Journal of Medicine, which described 53 patients in Illinois and Wisconsin, 100 percent of patients had abnormal lung imaging, one in two showed signs of liver problems, and almost a third had a fever. More baffling, the majority of patients had gastrointestinal symptoms, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Callahan says no one knows why. “Someone brought up the idea that this is something like cyclic vomiting syndrome you see in people who smoke a lot of marijuana,” he says. “But this isn’t really the same.”