Health officials have identified the “brands” of marijuana vaporizer cartridges that are behind the recent vaping crisis that has sickened thousands of people and even caused a handful of deaths, PBS News Hour reports.
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Now, authorities are naming the specific “brands” that are believed to have sickened the individuals. “Brands” is used here in quotation marks because it appears that counterfeiters used the brand names to pass off diluted cannabis oil, and in one case used a “brand” that didn’t exist.
The biggest group of patients — 56 percent of them — had vaped oil from “Dank Vapes.” There is no brand called “Dank Vapes.” Rather, it’s simply empty packaging, meant to spoof legitimate marijuana cartridges, that anyone can order from China and fill with whatever they want, and then unscrupulously sell.
TKO (15 percent), Smart Cart (13 percent), and Rove (12 percent) are also brands that have been used by individuals who later got sick; again, authorities suspect that unscrupulous sellers cut the actual THC oil with Vitamin E or other adulterants and then resold it on the black market. That, or the products were counterfeit to begin with.
So good are counterfeiters at spoofing the actual brands that, in some cases, in states where marijuana is legal, the actual manufacturers have had to redesign their packaging in order to get a step ahead of the counterfeiters.
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