Vaping deaths/Dank Vapes/Odd Timing

[Katcandoo]

I don't believe that the sudden rash of vaping illnesses and deaths was random. The timing and short duration of the outbreak has a pattern. vaping has been around for a long time - more than a decade. The recent tragedies-with the media and government hype, has been used as a weapon against vaping. The outbreak was very short, but hurt a lot of young people. Not one long term smoker turned vaper was affected. And almost all who were sickened were young and admitted to using eliquid from black market cartridges with THC from Dank Vapes to try to get high. But the media didn't release that important fact for months. Meanwhile, they and the government - including the CDC - actively warned against all vaping, and have implemented more laws against vaping.

I find it odd that after finally getting to the common denominator of the cause of the deaths and illnesses, the government and media still has not identified who owns Dank, and how that company managed to distribute for only a few months the deadly THC eliquid vape that harmed so many people in such a short amount of time? And Dank was the only company identified? Then it suddenly stopped? And it was national news? If this was a systemic epidemic in the vaping industry, then all distributors would be front and center. But it was only Dank. Out of the hundreds of eliquid vendors, it was just one?

I'm pretty good at tracking down owners of corporations and businesses, but I've had no success in identifying the owners of the one supplier mentioned. And if there were multiple suppliers of the deadly THC vape liquid, it would be published.

 

[bnrkwest]

Dank is not a company, it is a container printed that black market suppliers use. That's why it is hard to track.

 

[United States]

At my Christmas gathering I pulled out a vape stick and puffed on it a few times as the folks were gathered in the usual "see you next year" circle on the way out.

My super-duper tree hugger sister says "those things kill people". I took another drag and blew it her way saying "you're going down with me sis". She was not amused. Her daughter pipes in saying "mom it was black market thc e-cigarettes". Her daughter is not a vaper by the way and is actually more of a tree hugger than her mom so if she knows the truth there is hope folks.

 

[robrrt]

 

[StormFinch]

The CDC actually named four "brands" which made up the majority of products found to be the culprits, with Dank being the top offender. As bnkrwest mentioned, Dank is simply a name on empty packaging sold all over the place.

The other three names the CDC published were:
TKO - a real brand but only available in Cali dispensaries. The carts getting people sick, often found in other states, were knockoffs sold on the street/internet.
Smart Carts - another fake brand.
Rove - like TKO, a real brand which is only available in Cali and Nevada with fakes being sold outside of legal channels.

While the timing was real, the FDA, CDC, tobacco control zealots, and news outlets all took full advantage of it.

• In the spring of 2018, the first bottles of Honey Cut started appearing. A new way to cut illicit THC so that it could pass the "bubble test," aka appear pure, Honey Cut was found to be ~90% vitamin E acetate. One year later, Honey Cut's website stated that they had sold more product in the first few months of 2019 than in all of 2018.
• In May of this year, the first shipment of THC concentrate, dubbed "crude oil," was confiscated after being hand carried through the Mexican desert and across the U.S. border in backpacks.
• The first medical reports of what was originally termed VAPI (Vaping-Associated Pulmonary Injury) before the CDC decided to lump e-cigarettes into it, came in mid-July of 2019. (see the above Leafly article link about Honey Cut)

Ironically, although the median age of those with injuries was 24, the median age of those who died was 52. The age range of all patients was from 17 to 75, proving again that the CDC played this outbreak for all it was worth. Nothing like fabricating opportunity, huh?

 

[440BB]

View attachment 859981

Barry Sanders does NOT represent any government. He just made people miss, giving magical memories to long suffering Detroit Lions Fans.