Marijuana and Nicotine Are Trading Places as Prohibitionists’ Target

I don’t much like Los Angeles. [...] But there is one thing about LA that I like a lot: legal marijuana. So when my cousin asked me to buy him some cannabis vaping cartridges during my trip there in October, I was happy to oblige. Tim* lives in Massachusetts. He has been legally using cannabis to manage depression for two years, and it’s helped him enormously. He asked for three 500mg THC cartridges. In LA it seems there’s a cannabis store on every corner. I like that. There was one three doors down from my scrappy Super 8 hotel in North Hollywood.

2019-12-04
filtermag.org

How vaping is undermining Canada's battle against cigarettes

Canada took a big step as a world leader in tobacco control when strict plain-and-standardized packaging rules for tobacco came into effect on Nov. 9. Unfortunately, and potentially tragically, we are falling far behind in another vital area of nicotine consumption and addiction – vaping. Other countries and jurisdictions are either already way ahead of us or will be soon. Canada's Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, which legalized vaping products with nicotine, was passed in May 2018, but the regulations put forth were not sufficient to protect youth from vaping.

2019-12-04
cbc.ca

Professor Luke O'Neill: 'Vape safety now a burning issue'

Vaping has been getting something of a bad press of late. Countries worldwide are considering restrictions and bans. Some 39 deaths have been reported in the US and a possible culprit is something called vitamin E acetate. But how dangerous is vaping and if it is banned won't that keep more people on the much more dangerous cigarettes? And why is Donald Trump back-tracking on a ban of flavoured e-cigarettes?

2019-12-04
independent.ie

Nicotine sickness: the latest vaping scare

Sharon Levy, director of the adolescent substance use and addiction programme at the children’s hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, is quick to recall the first time a teenager with vaping-induced nicotine poisoning arrived at her clinic. “This was about a year and a half ago,” she says. “I remember sitting, talking with him about his experiences using [the e-cigarette] Juul, and it became quite clear to me that the symptoms he had were basically nicotine toxicity. Nicotine is sometimes used as a pesticide in very high levels, [...]

2019-12-04
theguardian.com

Children exposed to smoking in early life more likely to exhibit hyperactivity, conduct problems

In a recent study, children exposed to smoking in the first 4 years of life were more likely to exhibit symptoms of hyperactivity and conduct problems. The study, which is published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, found that the association remained even after controlling for family poverty level, parental education, parental history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hostility, depression, caregiver IQ, and obstetric complications.

2019-12-04
news-medical.net

Trump lacks the will to act, so NJ must: Ban flavored vapes | Editorial

Two months ago, with his wife seated beside him, President Trump vowed to ban flavored e-cigarettes that appeal to kids because “innocent children (are) coming home and saying, ‘Mom, I want to vape.’” Since then, the death toll related to vaping has soared from 6 to 47, and nearly 3,000 others (their median age: 24) have suffered vape-related lung damage. This would seem to be another break-glass moment, but all indications are that this is no longer a presidential priority — even with NJ Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th Dist.) moving pioneering legislation, [...]

2019-12-04
nj.com