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This seemed pretty obvious when all the stories were about cannabis vaping, not nicotine.

And now vaping is thought to be unhealthier than tobacco smoking.

The stories were never about cannabis vaping either. They were about adulterated cannabis extract vaping.

Someone using a cannabis flower vaporizer (e.g. PAX 2/3, Firefly, Arizer, Volcano) with pure lab tested flower was never at risk for the lung disease that vitamin E acetate has caused.

The linked article doesn't mention vitamin E acetate, so here's one that discusses it:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/20/21031771/vaping-lung-inj...

> pure lab tested flower

There has been some trouble with that too. Washington state doesn't require lab testing for pesticides, and in other states there have been cases of fraudulent testing (https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/industry-insiders-warn... https://www.leafly.com/news/industry/sequoia-analytics-surre... )

The industry is still maturing and I'm confident things will get better with time. But for the time being, consumers should exercise reasonable caution.

There have been a few issues due to mold and yeast contamination too. Still, better than the black market days because you can check the serial number against the contaminated batches.

That is true, and I didn't mean to imply that anything is risk free. Only that this particular risk is specifically caused by vitamin E acetate.

It’s irritating that Apple pulled the Pax app from the App Store because it was related to “vaping”.

What does a vap app even do? Mine works just fine without an app.

There exist multi-cart vapes where you can load up 4 different carts (one THC, one CBD, one Terps, one Flavoring agent, as an example) and control the dispensed amount of each via phone app.

The Pax app let's you set dosage controls so that you can always get a consistent hit each time. The new Era Pro even remembers the dosage based on which pod you're using, which is super useful for me since I have a sativa pod set to one dose and an indica pod set to two. The app also supports fine-grained temperature control in addition to surfacing information related to the pod like lab testing results.

Except Montana, and afaik other places, banned forms of nicotine vaping in response to this. Also the general public seems to think it's related to nicotine, not thc.

San Francisco, too?

Beverly hills banned all tobacco save for cigars in certain clubs.

Considering how the majority of the news releases and articles were written, it is not surprising that fear of vaping itself is the idea that remains in people's minds.

It reminds me of "the great hack". Disinformation is so disturbing.

I don't think this is a deliberate disinformation problem, it's simply that good information and proper investigations take time. In the meantime, people speculating (primarily on social media) dominates and those opinions become indistinguishable from good information to most people, if they ever even see the definitive results at all.

This dynamic has affected almost every thing I pay attention to on the internet. It's depressing.

If you wanna go another layer on “the great hack” the fun bit is Brittney Kaiser is full of crap. She ran election interference for the last Mexican presidential election.

That just finally leaked this week in The Guardian If she was actually remorseful for her roll in Cambridge Analytica, she would’ve admitted that from the start, instead of doing this whole reputation PR/ The Great Hack thing to make herself still hireable.

Yes, I think we should have another category for "whistleblowers" who only appear after somebody else has already blown the whistle

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