Fake Dank vapes warning

You could make something like this and then sell the preloaded half gram center ceramic rod. The pictures maybe not super clear but there is a half gram extract holding capacity in the extra porous black ceramic center rod is and the heating wire is baked into the white ceramic holding part. They work very well and taste amazing hit after hit unlike almost every other wax atomizer. Parts are all high grade materials all stainless steel componentry. Source goes the extra mile for material safety, but I still muuuucccch prefer the longmada motar for small tastes/quartz dishes. The source orb quartz dish is pretty much just good for drop dabs on a rig haha. The airflow is just not nearly as good. But the ceramic on ceramic one is gold.

For some reason their actual website is down though, but this is the product:

They are heavy though and get hot and stay hot. Great for canadian winters, but maybe not so much Floridian summers. Get it made with titanium though…

Get the smallest diameter ceramic disc to avoid spatter

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I’ve always thought when this happens was bc the vape was so much lower temp at this that the terps almost leave some first. Like by the end of the cart if not mixed strong it’s not as strong flavored? Ever noticed, I know your smart AF what u think , does a cart vape low enough to be a lil select esp in the beginning (and I don’t mean only terps vaping just tiny bits more?). I probably sound stupid af. Something I’ve always wondered

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I was watching a video on illegal cartel grow operations in the national forests and one of the officers mentioned a story wherein they shut down a grow operated by the cartel and some of the police officers got intensely sick. He said one of them was in a coma and said the name of the pesticide they came in contact with was carbofuran.

Could these fake dank vape carts be being produced with carbofuran contaminated material and that’s what’s causing the hospitalizations?

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If a cart sat for quite awhile there could be some separation I suppose. That certainly wasn’t the case in the situation I mentioned.

I really didn’t mean seperation just low heating of vapes burning terps easier keeping them more pristine, idk sounds stupid now

These outbreaks comes right at the height of the FDA powergrab of the vape industry. If it were from shitty pesticide contamination, then why didn’t this happen a loooong time ago? Like there have been pesticides in carts from the beginning.

I’m just saying the CDC has does some shady shit in the past and the gov’t has all sorts of intelligence assets and CI’s. The most ruthless of career criminals, is one granted immunity for cooperating. The feds give these people a sense of importance and impunity, and then use them as cannon fodder… A few meetings and some btc transfers later, and suddenly there’s poison injected into a mainline of the black market cartridge distribution channel. Not to go full Alex Jones, but I just feel like wide-spread pesticide toxicity would’ve happened already. What has changed?

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So after a little more reading this evening I came across this…

Dr. Michael Lynch, medical director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said the lung injuries doctors there are seeing are consistent with chemical inhalation injuries.

Then I got to thinking, what could have changed lately. The terpenes are the same, most of the cuts are likely the same(unless some new brand popped up, dropped a bunch of poison and vanished), pesticides are likely the same, but there have been some changes to ‘common’ extractions methods.

A year ago not many home chemists would’ve considered using something other then butane/propane, isopropyl, or ethanol. Now we’re getting a lot more people running heptane, but that’s not really new either, but methanol seems to be in more use lately. Purge techniques for a lot of home chemists are less than adequate… :man_shrugging:

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Right but even significant residual methanol contamination would not result in this type of toxicity. Plus they would be able to detect elevated methanol and formic acid blood levels if this were the case. Other solvents used in the industry don’t really have any crazy acute toxicity at residual contamination concentrations that i’m aware of, anybody using DCM yet? lol. Something else is the attributing factor

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Everyone is scrambling to figure it out. The Nicotine side too. The bleeding edge knows.

  1. Dank vapes are one of the lowest common denominator. The hardware/packaging can be purchased for less than a dollar.

  2. It’s happening in a “why bother” state in a localized region during a cannabis off season.

  3. It’s happening to the youth market, the “why bother market” that consists of poor people (almost all children are poor and cannot afford quality products)

  4. RC’s have been vaped for years prior to this. Only now a days are people worried about having a thicc vape pen

Terpenes are just now being popularized. Many of these can be reacting with the drugs being used and creating new compounds.

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Rolling Stone: Counterfeit Weed Vape Cartridges Are Everywhere — and They’re Making People Sick.

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Great read. I found this part to be what I’ve been looking for.

There is another thread on here that the Honeycutt and such diluents are made with vitamins. Which ones…?

“Lab testing of Pirzada’s patient’s cartridge revealed that it tested positive for not just THC, but also vitamin E. If inhaled, oils like Vitamin E can cause lipoid pneumonitis, a rare condition that results from fat particles being inhaled into the lungs, says Pirzada.“

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Exactly! I mean it is a terpene…

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Makes sense that someone would use vitamin e thinking it must be safe… Its also an antioxidant and about as thick as the now more mysterious uber thick. @FloraplexTerpenes do you use vitamin e in your uber thick formula? Asking for a friend, thanks

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And this

“When she submitted the results to the Department of Health, it informed her that there were two other cases of THC cartridges testing positive for vitamin E oil,”

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@DistributorMichael please read this. Also, please stop selling that cut.

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maybe this is why @FloraplexTerpenes went from active member of the forum to silent

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It makes sense that the @FloraplexTerpenes Uber thick is a vitamin isolate. If it is then shame on them these vitamin oils are not meant to be f****** Vaped give me MCT PG or PEG over that s*** any day

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Found an article claiming aerosolized vitamin e is good for the lungs,

https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.1998.84.1.263

Also found some people in 2009 claiming to be vaping vitamin e

(among other things :face_vomiting: )
We could contact this guy and see if he’s still alive.

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Granted that is one drop and not 500mg like many of these danks etc

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