The CDC knows exactly why these deaths are occurring.
They should be held responsible for their lack of truthful information being passed on to the media.
"stop vaping" is a irresponsible recommendation.
It's called "covering your backside" by using the "shotgun approach". If they recommend "stop vaping" period, they can't be incriminated. They didn't want to say something is safe when it wasn't, or vice versa. In the end, that policy may bite them in the backside by not sharing what information that they already knew. We'll see.
I don't think the FDA or CDC or medical teams were even aware that there are two different types of vape liquid -- nicotine and cannabis. Very different products that use the same type of gear.
When there is an outbreak of Salmanella or E. Coli, at first you can only say don't buy the lettuce or the hamburger, until you have more information of lot numbers and what locations those products need to be recalled. It's a public emergency and sometimes just a general statement is the only response that can be given until more specific details are available.
But why lie if you are dying, it's not helping
Who's saying they were lying? From what I read, victims admitted to "vaping". But did anyone on the medical team ask "what" they were vaping? I saw no evidence that they did, but that could be from poor reporting. These events had been extremely rare (lipoid pneumonis) and the medical community seemed to be unprepared and dumbfounded. They treated it as bacterial pneumonia with antibiotics, but that's not how you treat lipoid pneumonia (steroids). Now, medical teams will know to consider lipoid pneumonis in the future.
The kids may have lied because they didn't want their parents to know they were using THC purchased illegally off the street. Some were intubated with a tube down their throat and in a coma; hard to talk under those circumstances.
The older individuals had health problems. Who's to say that they weren't vaping THC because they had cancer? Legal dispensary THC is expensive, or maybe not available in their state, so their option was to purchase cheaper unregulated THC off the street. Who knew it was a vial of poison?
Buying any drug off the black market carries huge risks. Everybody and their mother is selling CBD; is that stuff off the counter and online regulated and safe? I don't know.
Most (likely all) of these people are using THC bought off the street, cut with something else. I've seen no sign that normal vapers need to worry about it.
And ECF picked a horrible time to go pro THC vaping.
That's your opinion. My opinion is that it is the perfect time to open a cannabis forum.
It's not a pro THC forum. It's supposed to be a place for people to share information, safe use information, especially at this time. Since vapers of all kinds come here to seek information I think its a great and prudent idea. No one here that I've seen is promoting THC to the community, just sharing safety information that they have picked up.
As said many times before, you can choose to ignore the cannabis forums if you wish.
