I sort of hate these articles, because the comments always boil down to three main categories:<p>1. I vape and this hasn’t happened to me, therefore I’m an expert on public health policy<p>2. I vape and because it’s better than cigarettes, it’s safe on those terms alone<p>3. What the hell is wrong with you idiots, safer than cigarettes is not the same as safe<p>You’re either irrationally defensive (1, 2) because you feel attacked, or you’re a smug dick (3) that trivializes addiction.
Note that the black vape on the right in the photo is very much unlike the other two.<p>It’s a dry herb cannabis vaporizer —- oddly, one of the very few that’s a certified medical device. (it’s a storz and bickel crafty)<p>There’s a vast difference between concentrate/ejuice/distillate vapes and something like a crafty.<p>It would be nice if the two categories of vapes could be separated more cleanly when discussing health effects because it would separate a lot of the variables.
They likely got a bad batch of THC cartridges, there's a ton of black market ones going around all over, with who knows what in them.<p>Millions of people use nicotine vaporizers daily with no ill effects.
This is what happens when you make the drugs that have been safe for years illegal. People who make marijuana illegal don't care about children - they would rather have a few die as a moralistic lesson to others than allow anyone to get high. Because they're assholes. Full stop.
Is their research on people who have ONLY vaped? Most people who vape are former/current smokers. For me, I vape when not drinking and smoke cigarettes when drinking. This means I smoke about 2-3 packs a month, the rest is vape.<p>It's harm reduction for me and allows me to still perform at a reasonable cardio level in beer leagues. Now my evidence is shotty, but my lungs "feel" better and I have a noticeable improvement in cardio when I haven't touch a cigarette in a few days and have just been vaping. My ability to stay on the ice (I play hockey) is noticeably better. I don't start getting really tired until the third period, whereas with cigarettes I am dead by the second period.
10 people go blind drinking moonshine, Wisconsin officials urge people to stop drinking. Wtf is wrong with them giving this overreaction after a cluster of bad cases of people who smoked “THC” juice.
meh. Inhaling a bunch of chemicals was always gonna be a roll of the dice.<p>Better question is whether it's more dangerous than smokes cause people will want their nicotine fix one way or the other
So, I am just trying to understand how it's worse than caffeine.<p>I vape but I simply don't get how bad it is compared to the normal smog and other impure air we breathe. Nicotine aside,what makes vaping risky? Like are there specific chemical substances? When i starter it I assumed it was nictone,water vapor and flavorings which have no known side effects on the lung.