Vitamins E acetate looks like it’s causing some of the serious lung infections.. wonder why this is being put into cartridges...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/09/06/vitamin-e-acetate-could-be-causing-vape-related-illnesses-officials/amp/
There have been several companies lately that are/were selling "Flavorless" (impossible) terpene extenders
Like this:
https://www.buyterpenesonline.com/terpenes-for-sale/terpene-diluent-flavorless-thickener/?attribute_pa_size=5-ml&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj-fK79_J5AIVxh6tBh33qg2uEAQYASABEgKhEPD_BwE
This is impossible, this product cannot be a terpene, I will go into more detail in a moment.
Let me rant first...
There are also way too many companies that have been withholding the ingredients of their vapes on the basis that the ingredients are "not toxic" and therefore because they aren't toxic they don't have to disclose them.
This is the result of no regulations.
Not that I am an advocate for strict regulations, but we now see what happens when people are allowed to self-regulate and what happens when greed gets mixed in...
I predicted and I wrote about it here on RIU that due to these companies greed that in the near future there would be strict and harsh regulations because of the companies who were taking advantage.
Now for the first time ever, because of their greed there have been deaths associated to THC...
FUCK!!!
There is no coming back from this!!!
The cannabis industry is now stuck with this FOREVER!!!!
60 years from now, people will be like "but weren't there a few people who died because of vaping?"
All because of GREED!!!
Thousands of years of use and up until now, the only deaths were a couple of college kids who ate some edibles, consumed too much too fast, freaked out and committed suicide.
What do you think the public will remember, that it was some random chemical in the counterfeit vape that killed these people or that it was a "scary THC vape" that killed these people.
Let's be honest the general public are fucking idiots who only read headlines and do not read any further.
TL;DR...right?
Ok, general rant done...
Now onto the flavorless terpene rant...
The reason these "flavorless" terpenes cannot exist is simple science.
Terpenes are aromatic hydrocarbons (VOC's) so when they stop smelling it's because they have evaporated.
Yet these companies claim their products are 100% terpenes.
Terpenoids maybe, but not terpenes...
Tocotrienols and tocophenols (Vitamin E) is a terpenoid.
So this is probably what they have been using, not to keep the vape from turning dark, or as in tiny amounts as some preservative, but as the bulk liquidizer, because it's cheap!
So when these companies began using this crap, I was totally against it and I bitched about it here on RIU, though at the time I suspected the "flavorless" terpene were derived from olive oil or MCT oil and I predicted that the reason the companies didn't disclose the ingredients was because whatever it was, it was probably something very cheap and easily purchased.
I have also warned people to not be guinea pigs.
So, where does this leave us?
Well, now the US congress is contemplating banning ALL flavored THC based vapes.
It's step backward for the cannabis industry!
Because now any movements forward will be tarnished by the deaths...
So we can basically kiss federal legalization goodbye for the next 40 years.
While the ban hasn't passed yet, I am sure some form of this ban will pass and in the near future (congress time so perhaps 2-3 years) there will be regulations on the vaping industry as well.
Which is exactly what the people who did this don't want.
None of us do!
So their greed caused the very thing they claim to not want.
Instead of being honest and making money honestly (and slowly like it should be made), no they had to be greedy and now people are dead and the rest of us are now going to have to conform to stupid regulations.
Which if they hadn't been greedy, wouldn't be necessary!
Ok, I am done bitching about it (for now)...
