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Legal vape markets literally 1,000% safer than street

Everyone who shopped for cannabis exclusively in a licensed medical or grown-up use store in 2019—give yourself a gesture of congratulations, you're excused.

With respect to the rest of you: Sit down.

More than 2,409 THC Cartridge people became ill and 52 died from VAPI (vaping associated pneumonic damage, which federal authorities have relabeled EVALI) in 2019. How they became ill and died isn't a mystery, either.

Investigators traced VAPI back to disposable vaporizer cartridges filled with tainted cannabis oil and purchased off the street in denial states and counties.

Vape lung injuries, mapped

Try not to let anyone get it twisted: 2019 turned out to make the strongest case ever for regulating cannabis markets. VAPI proved that testing regulations protected cannabis consumers in legal states.

This was definitely not a viral or bacterial infection. VAPI was not an "outbreak." It was a mass harming that resulted from low quality control of a well known consumer item—much the same as bath gin, or narcotics cut with fentanyl, or infant equation cut with melamine.

A new investigation compiled by Leafly from freely available information found that cannabis denial states had ten times the number of vape injuries per capita as states that offered licensed, tested, and legal cannabis vape items. There have been zero confirmed VAPI cases exclusively associated with a licensed store or item in the US.

VAPI or EVALI?

Yes, we know the Centers for Disease Control is calling the lung illness EVALI, for e-cigarette or vaping lung damage.

Respectfully, we are resisting that name change. EVALI is inaccurate. The first VAPI term was changed by federal authorities so as to include e-cigarettes, which misguides general society.

This isn't damage caused by nicotine e-cigarettes. It is caused by tainted THC cartridges purchased on the street market.

Simple arrangement: legalize

On the off chance that you need to slice VAPI cases to zero out of 2020, simply permit people access to legal, licensed vaping items. It's as simple as fundamental quality control, says NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano.

"Consumers must be aware that not all cannabis vaping items are created equal," he says. "Quality control testing is basic and just exists in the legally regulated marketplace."