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>Vaping of marijuana was at the root of a public health crisis that unfolded this summer

The fact that it takes the author two more paragraphs to elucidate that the illness was in fact linked to bootleg, vitamin E-containing cartridges is disappointing, but not surprisingly. That fact seems really material to the argument.

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I'm not so sure it's just the bootleg products. Last time I went into a weed store, they had a big pamphlet with a list of recently recalled products and all were oils/concentrates. These are ostensibly legal products that were being sold in a properly licensed/regulated retail store.

there's definitely a big push from entrenched industries that will suffer with marijuana's legality, and Boomer's treating it like a taboo.

the front runner for the LIBERAL party in America is anti weed ffs.

Most of the democratic party is conservative.

Your personal Overton window is likely extremely liberal/progressive and outside the mainstream.

Mainstream for who though? The Overton window for the United states is very different from Canada's even though they're right next to each-other. For a lot of countries, the United States democratic party is fairly far to the right.

On the contrary, yours is extremely conservative/reactionary, and even moreso outside the mainstream.

Politics are relative. There are also far more than two neat little dimensions on which to analyze political orientation. The 2 principle component vectors of progressive/conservative beliefs between, say, UK and US are not aligned if one reduces the political spheres to 2 space.

People really need to stop thinking inside of 2 little boxes, RvsD or progressive vs conservative. This reductionist thinking is really bad for society.

The investigation is ongoing, vitamin E is not confirmed as the causal agent.

Anyway, the problem is actually people inhaling random chemicals, a problem which vaping has gifted to us. There will be other cases of lung injury unrelated to vitamin E.

Frankly, even 1 more dead guy is too many, I support a total ban on vaping.

So I also assume you fully support prohibition of alcohol then? Since it kills 1,000s a year in the US?

This is a foolish argument. 1. Vaping is at the stage where it can be controlled, whereas alcohol is beyond that point. Public health is not best served by a logically coherent approach where every product is treated fairly. 2. Alcohol will not burn your lungs and kill you in a few days at recommended usage levels, whereas vaping random juice apparently will.

> Vaping is at the stage where it can be controlled

Strongly disagree, see: Prohibition

Drinking ISO alcohol will make you go blind. Drinking moonshine can kill you.

How do you suppose you would "control" vaping any more than you can control alcohol? Every idiot knows how to fill a vape cart now

Smoking also Vaporizes whatever it is you are smoking. I doubt replacing Vaping with smoking is going to be a public health win. Regulating what is in the vape liquid probably would be though.

No one is pro inhaling random chemicals. They are pro inhaling specific chemicals. The fact that there is contamination is a problem of quality control and regulation.

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