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Re:CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culpri... by hurricanetc on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:04AM (#21851227)
Just because people are saying it doesn’t make it true. It doesn’t even make sense as a thickening agent. It’s not more valuable if it’s thicker and it becomes more difficult to handle and to fill cartridges.

It’s used to water down the product and sell more cartridges with the same amount of THC oil. The exact same thing cocaine dealers do with talc powder or some shady bars do watering down their bottles.

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Re:CDC Confirms a THC Additive, Vitamin E Acetate, Is Culpri... by catalogia on Saturday December 21, 2019 @05:46PM (#21853765)
I have no idea why you've been downvoted since you're plainly right. Do people think it a coincidence that the products found to be doing this seem to all be black market? Adulteration is common practice in the criminal drug industry. That's one of the major reasons so many people supported legalization in the first place, how could people have forgotten this?
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