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21. You're right - Vitamin E acetate is suspected
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 04:00 PM
Sep 2019

Disclosure: I started vaping to quit cigarettes, and it worked really well. Vaping is not exactly healthy, but I am grateful it helped me quit the much more damaging cigarettes I was smoking when nothing else did. Yes, I am tapering off vaping also.

E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco estimates landmark review
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review

The reason people are dying isn't because they are vaping, it's because of *what* they're vaping - and it has nothing to do with flavors.

Counterfeit Weed Vape Cartridges Are Everywhere — and They’re Making People Sick
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/counterfeit-thc-vapes-cdc-vaping-health-alert-875931/

A Thickener Used in Pot Vaping Is a Hugely Popular Black-Market Scam
https://www.inverse.com/article/59207-vitamin-e-acetate-thc-vapes

The CDC is a little behind the info curve in giving people a more precise and useful warning, but I'm glad they're finally getting the word out.

/relurk

Or you could just get it from licensed, reputable sources and not black market ones flibbitygiblets Sep 2019 #1
+1 proud patriot Sep 2019 #2
No Argument Here But;... jayfish Sep 2019 #4
Sorry to hear that Jayfish. It's hard to imagine a MJ shortage, living here on the left coast flibbitygiblets Sep 2019 #8
No Shortage Here. jayfish Sep 2019 #12
Yup, I am going home after work and vaping obamanut2012 Sep 2019 #14
No edibles? That SUCKS!!! flibbitygiblets Sep 2019 #16
Same thing happened during alcohol Prohibition htuttle Sep 2019 #3
Same thing happened with abortions before Roe. Thousands died from back-alley abortions flibbitygiblets Sep 2019 #7
EXCELLENT analogy! obamanut2012 Sep 2019 #15
Its not THC, its a contaminate slipped into some vape products by unscrupulous capitalist pigs. nt yaesu Sep 2019 #5
Correct. Vaping unprocessed herb is still the best route. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2019 #10
You're right - Vitamin E acetate is suspected crickets Sep 2019 #21
I knew it was gonna be Dank Vapes. Dr Hobbitstein Sep 2019 #6
I suspected as much. Here they are usually the only ones people can get. kas125 Sep 2019 #11
It's not THC. We have had a long history with this, and we know it does YOHABLO Sep 2019 #9
I use the carts for certain settings where I want to be inconspicuous BannonsLiver Sep 2019 #13
The problem with flower, for me, is smoke. My throat just doesn't care for that flibbitygiblets Sep 2019 #17
Yeah edibles are a great way to go BannonsLiver Sep 2019 #18
And the stats in the OP said that. Igel Sep 2019 #19
What about THC from a dispensary? JonLP24 Sep 2019 #20
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