Kinda weird they used MCT oil as the oil base, but whatever.
TL;DR: Vaping CBD is worse for you than nicotine apparently.
very weirdā¦ who vapes MCT?
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People that buy gas station CBD vapes?
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canāt really take anything the article says to heart if theyāre using this garbage oil as input.
I donāt particularly understand why they used MCT oil at all, why not just vaporize the CBD?
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I understand the logic to sample right from the cartridges. Itās answering āare these vapes safeā more than āis CBD vapour safeā. But they should have tried 5-10 different vapes from the legal/medicinal market. Not some boof from a gas station.
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According to someone that supposedly has access to the study:
āThey bought CBD from a company called The Kind Group LLC and mixed it with the MCT oil themselves.ā
lmao! alright my bad for not reading that in the article. please tell me they performed the experiments on MCT oil alone tooā¦
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It doesnāt mention that in the article, so youāre all good.
I would imagine they wouldnāt have to, last time I checked MCT oil aerosol inhalation has already been studied.
The study looks like itās free too access by the way.
From the reading I did, the CBD vape already came diluted in MCT.
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WHY? Why would someone dilute something more for a study like this? And with an adulterant? What purpose does that serve?
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Obfuscation of information perhaps?
Iād hope it was unintentional, and they just assumed they would need a carrier for the CBD.
Best case scenario itās just misinformed scientists, worst case itās a hit piece.
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But likeā¦ if you know that these lipids are adulterants. And you know that those adulterants cause harms. When only looking for a product which contains adulterants seems kinda weird. I mean it could say āadulterant laden CBD vape cartridges tested for lung damageā but thatās not what it says.
Like thereās been some really great studies on MCT and Vitamin E Acetate post E-VALI - why just disregard thoseā¦ I mean, how does this help the science? Let us prove again that lipids are not supposed to go into the lungs. VOILA - we have confirmed the peer reviewed studies. <3 Yay!
Anyway - reading the article it totally gets things wrong from the report in the actual paper. Which happens a lot I suppose. The specifics being that the papers looks like this:
Which has propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin listed coming from the CBD-vape, not MCT. However, the narrative listed exactly the opposite of what the table in the same article lists. The marketing for the āCalm Vapeā says that it doesnāt have any additives in itā¦
So I guess who should we believe at this point? The article, which misquotes the study. The study that misquotes itself. The manufacturer of the device? Hmmm.
I mean - I love science. But damn man, canāt we get a little more focus on accuracy in science for this stuff. People might start thinking its a good idea to fill vapes with plant lipids again or somethingā¦
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