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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...

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> 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.

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