> Some patients say they vaped only nicotine, and state health officials consider some of those reports reliable, Dr. Schuchat said.
And no, we shouldn't. Common sense should tell you that inhaling large amount of steam mixed with other chemicals is a great way to mess up your lungs.
I don't consider that solid evidence sorry, it's speculation and all evidence is 100% limited to Vitamin-E. I've never heard any reason to add Vitamin-E to a substance that is already thick. Nicotine e-cigarettes don't need thickening agents to be thick. It's like 95%+ glycol which is already thick. Why the hell would they need to add a thickening agent?
The problem has always been there was a shortage of quality weed and instead of waiting they reprocessed "shake" (the lowest quality part of the plant) and added a thickening agent.
The fact some kids won't admit they smoked THC to their parents, which put them in the hospital, also wouldn't surprise me. The numbers are very small at that.
If anything the risks with nicotine are with the various flavouring agents (which shady companies like Juul already acknowledged, another company I'd never use). I'm not saying there's zero risk or that it's entirely safe. But dying and hospital visits over Vitamin-E are in a totally different league and not something I'm not worried about with nicotine e-cigarettes. I am still worried about THC pens in general, which are way harsher than e-cigarettes, but that's not what I'm defending.
Yeah, I don't see any way for THC pens to get safer unless they get legalized and regulated like other food/consumption industries.
I personally use THC pens once and a while from reputable sources but even they still scare me. The experience of smoking it is significantly harsher than even the strongest nicotine vape devices I've used and results in sometimes scary coughing fits for most people I've seen use them, typically from taking too much. I could see that level of heat and inflammatory reaction combined with some bad ingredients result in some serious harm to the breathing passageways.
I wouldn't be surprised if smoking Vitamin-E normally without the heat/harshness of shitty THC vape pens turns out to be harmless. That's purely anecdotal though - besides some study I read where constant-heating of the throat and mouth was connected to higher infections rates with a particular drugs, even though the drug itself wasnt dangerous. (Note: temperatures are typically far lower with glycol based nicotine vape devices which doesn't require heat/burn levels that THC requires).
For some reason the Canadian government (where I live) has refused to add vape pens to the legal list which has helped keep grey market retail stores and online websites flourishing regardless of the law. It would be silly to expect THC pen's popularity will somehow stop - it really is the best way to smoke weed, hands down, and will continue to grow in popularity.
Fortunately most of the reputable [1] Canadian grey market weed sites post medical lab results and unlike the legal shops in Canada have zero issues with supply management. Meanwhile the legal shops are constantly out of stock as supply from legal grow-ops outpaces demand because the licensing system (like all gov processes) is extremely slow, backlogged, and full of highly questionable road blocks.
[1] There are tons of forums, review sites, and Reddit threads where consumers can share information about good grey market stores. That plus whether they post lab tests on their websites... which typically come from the same labs who test the gov licensed grow ops products.
iirc 14% of them claim this. People lie all of the time, especially about drugs. We have ten years of people vaping without dying and a sudden outbreak where all of the evidence points to black market THC cartridges and vitamin E.
But yeah, let's just trust your 'common sense' and take away the single most effective way of quitting cigarettes.
> Some patients say they vaped only nicotine, and state health officials consider some of those reports reliable, Dr. Schuchat said.
And no, we shouldn't. Common sense should tell you that inhaling large amount of steam mixed with other chemicals is a great way to mess up your lungs.