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The article states that it is easy to actually buy empty carts and even real branded packaging. Why anyone would sell that is insane... "One of the shops visi

The article states that it is easy to actually buy empty carts and even real branded packaging. Why anyone would sell that is insane... "One of the shops visited by NBC News in Los Angeles sold packaging for Dank Vapes Gorilla Glue, the same brand of vape that Castillo was using before he landed in the hospital ICU. "

gburdell3 7y ago
There's no such thing as a legit "Dank Vapes" cartridge. The "brand" only exists as packaging for black-market cartridges. You can buy the cartridges and "branded" boxes by the hundreds on AliExpress.
- mtnGoat 7y ago
  You could even buy them on Amazon(up until a few days ago, havent checked lately.)
- excalibur 7y ago
  Further reading: https://www.inverse.com/article/58581-dank-vapes https://www.inverse.com/article/58581-dank-vapes THIS appears to be the problem, or a sizable portion of it anyway. The media sensationalizes, the officials implement draconian bans, and none of it addresses the actual issues it's intended to combat.
  - samfriedman 7y ago
    Wow, this is a much better article; it even calls the myclobutanil connection, and a month earlier than NBC's story to boot.
RickS 7y ago
Edit: gburdell3's answer – that there was never a "real" version, and it was only ever a white label package – seems likely. -- My experience manufacturing in China is that unless you're paying to have your own people on the ground overseeing operations, the factory will take every shortcut they can, and then immediately offer your product for sale to anybody that asks. Once the molds/setup is done, it's trivial to print 150k instead of 100k, for example. If there's a counterfeit market that wants more of your product, then why not make money in two places? Western ideas about IP, fairness, etc do not translate over there.

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The article states that it is easy to actually buy empty carts and even real branded packaging. Why anyone would sell that is insane... "One of the shops visi

by nickthegreek 7y ago

gburdell3 7y ago
There's no such thing as a legit "Dank Vapes" cartridge. The "brand" only exists as packaging for black-market cartridges. You can buy the cartridges and "branded" boxes by the hundreds on AliExpress.
- mtnGoat 7y ago
  You could even buy them on Amazon(up until a few days ago, havent checked lately.)
- excalibur 7y ago
  Further reading: https://www.inverse.com/article/58581-dank-vapes https://www.inverse.com/article/58581-dank-vapes THIS appears to be the problem, or a sizable portion of it anyway. The media sensationalizes, the officials implement draconian bans, and none of it addresses the actual issues it's intended to combat.
  - samfriedman 7y ago
    Wow, this is a much better article; it even calls the myclobutanil connection, and a month earlier than NBC's story to boot.
RickS 7y ago
Edit: gburdell3's answer – that there was never a "real" version, and it was only ever a white label package – seems likely. -- My experience manufacturing in China is that unless you're paying to have your own people on the ground overseeing operations, the factory will take every shortcut they can, and then immediately offer your product for sale to anybody that asks. Once the molds/setup is done, it's trivial to print 150k instead of 100k, for example. If there's a counterfeit market that wants more of your product, then why not make money in two places? Western ideas about IP, fairness, etc do not translate over there.