Hello everyone! 👋 I hope you enjoyed this one! Once again, I apologize for the extremely late upload lol. Speaking of late uploads, I recently hired Cam, an amazing video editor who will help me take my videos to the next level and post more often. I looked into a ton of editors to help me out, but Cam was the obvious choice because he’s a beast and way better than me! That’s why this video has a slightly different artistic style, but I love it, and I hope you all do too. 😊 Also, I wanted to shout out to Marissa Wenzke and David Downs at Leafly for researching and writing an amazing article on Josh Temple and this whole story. Their article was a huge help in making this video, so please check out their work on my sources page. Once again, I hope you all enjoyed the video! I promise I’ll post more often lol. Only making banger documentaries for you 👍
u need to talk about the newer cart epidemic called delta 8 carts and thc b and others that u can buy online with no id anywhere in the us tons of websites with dangours disposibles that sent me to the hospitol
Blew my mind how there's not a lick of any official documents. Nothing from any courts, social media... anything. Would love to know what this asshole's up to now. No problem it was a fun one to make!
@@LucIndustries Totally agree. I try to only include good info and details, but not to a point where the details are pointless. Guys like EmpLemon who put out 50min masterpieces have an amazing skill... that shit would take me forever 😅I wanna get up to that point soon though
@@tobiascooper8800 Which I also find hilarious as kids haven’t stolen cigarettes from their parents for the last 50+ years. Like “flavors” really matter or are “more enticing.” It’s learned behavior.
this was infuriating at the time. I had been vaping for years prior, and all of the sudden, everyone and their mother wanted to educate me on the dangers of vaping. I found that shit so annoying and disrespectful. Like they really dont gaf about your health, they just think they know better than you because they saw some stupid fkin article on facebook.
got approached many times by strangers, friends, family during this time. I smoked cigs for 8 years and was on my 7th year of vaping nic. No one ever told me shit when i smoked cigs, but all of the sudden they want to educate me about how vaping is killing people. I started responding rudely to anyone that did it because i found it so disrespectful
These carts are still out here in California an can be had for as little as 5$ a piece in bulk. Most people know to avoid them but they are still out there
Bro you can get a liter of distillate for under 900$ making carts for 2.50$ I would be very surprised if this is still happening with how cheap you can get distillate now.
I mean I keep 14+ on deck at time, carts HTFSE, Live Resin or Distillate & 8+ on each and many more, don’t know what type links y’all got unless y’all teens 😂
Hey, Back in 2019 I was in the ICU for 4 days with EVALI. I was severely dehydrated and was at about 50% lung function, with a blood/oxygen level of 70% (nearing organ failure). They determined it was EVALI from vitamin E acetate inhalation. The cart I smoked was the exact ones shown at 3:09 (Big Chief branded), I have permanent lung damage from this. It was sold to me through someone my friends knew. Thank you for making this. It's hard to find many videos talking specifically about EVALI, and seeing one lets me and I'm sure many others understand what entirely happened and how some of us got to this point.
im so sorry to hear you went through that man, and I'm glad you're alive. A big part of the reason I made this was because no one had really covered what happened in detail, and it was such an interesting story that I had to put it together. Stay safe
@@HCG At my most recent checkup (a year or so ago) they said I was up to about 88%-90% capacity, although I don't think I'll ever be at 100% again, I can exercise if I pace myself well enough, although I do run out of breath faster than most people my age.
@@LemurSCC That’s a significant improvement from where you were at. I have a bit of lung damage myself from something else and it’s reassuring to know there are others who understand. I get frustrated running out of breath doing things that used to barely tire me, but I’m hoping it gets better with time
My senior year of high school I used a good 5 or 6 dank vapes, about 10 TKO carts, a couple Roves, a couple kingpens you name it I chiefed them all. Thank the lord nothing happened to me.
I’ve had every cart u named too EXCEPT danks. It was actually the first cart I ever bought but I wouldn’t hit it bc something in me knew it wasn’t right
I remember, about five or 6 years ago, two brothers were arrested and found with over 150,000 counterfeit carts. I watched the news report live, which showed the stack of carts. My friends and I had bought one of the exact ones shown in the broadcast at the beginning of our freshman year. It was bubblegum-flavored cart, I remember thinking to myself “damn.”
It's still a bit disingenuous to use the word "vape" which is more commonly associated with nicotine vapes instead of THC vapes which are the only market in which counterfeit products are common. I would bet my left nut that you can't find an instance of a counterfeit nicotine vape hospitalizing someone or the existence of a counterfeit nicotine vape to begin with
Its actually the worst. "Nobody's died from the real stuff, but the fact that it's illegal gives way to a lot of fake stuff! It should be legal because its actually safer!" Is what the weed vaping community would prob feel in response to this. Also yeah boof carts and e-cigs are not the same thing, not even close.
I remember being super sick during 2018 winter and it was when I was into Dank vapes heavy. I remember not being able to eat, I felt like my lungs couldn’t breathe. Went to the doctor and they said they couldn’t find out what was wrong with me. After that I stop smoking them and got better in 2 weeks. Glad I stop when I did because I would’ve been one of those numbers.
Keep up with lung health. We don’t know the long term effects yet. I don’t want to scare you, but it’s better to be proactive than have something pop up seemingly out of nowhere years down the line.
as a victim of the cartdemic this video gave me a lot more insight on the situation without all the fear-mongering from most outlets discussing this. thank you!!
I use to know a meth cook/dealer. He always cut his dope with vitamin b12. Coke usually has baby laxatives and stupid bs in it. Crack is half baking soda.
I was in college at the time of the EVALI epidemic and actually wrote a report on it for one of my English classes, the teacher was super chill and actually loved it because it was such relevant news
@DaleGribble-m6s Sure thing. When I wrote the report, the EVALI cases were being looped into "vaping" as a whole, rather than just the problematic Vitamin E/Honey Cut carts. As BC mentioned, this is why so many fruit flavored vapes like mango JUUL pods started being pulled from the market. When in reality, most nicotine vapes were just fine. So, my report dived into the reality of the situation, mentioning Honey Cut, the readily-available cart packaging, the lung issues caused by Vitamin E, and how nicotine vapes were being falsely accused. At the time, very little specifics were being published on the lung issues faced by Vitamin E vapers, aside from a couple X-Ray images and number of hospitalizations, so it was hard to say whether these victims would recover, making it even scarier tbh. Ironically, I chose this topic out of self interest, as I was still vaping carts myself, hoping to god I never encountered the bunk ones.
After I had my first real cart from a dispensary I realized I had never smoked a real one before I felt so lucky. Some of my friends still to this day have yet to smoke a real cart I’m amazed they haven’t had any lung issues yet
Not all street carts are bad, there are some that are really good shit if you know who's filling it, but otherwise don't even touch that shit if you don't know nothing about it's origins.
Yup I only get two brands, Flavorade and Coldfire. Anything distillate is garbage crap no matter how good people claim it is. Flavorade and Coldfire are cured resin done with only the best flower and extracted at -100 degrees. Seriously if you haven't tried those two brands you're missing out.
Cant believe I used to hit those fake vapes as a teen, I'm lucky I haven't been hospitalized. It's a good thing I was broke and couldn't afford much of those.
Crazy thing is I have the lung disease the black market carts were giving teens, the only difference is I got it post infectiously and not from vape carts, Which means I got sick and got it. I had Pneumonia and Adenovirus back in 2008 (I was 7) which destroyed my lungs and the little branch like bronchioli you can see in a diagram of a lung, so now I'm on supplemental oxygen. Craziest thing is I live in Florida so I have access to good medical marijuana and I vape the medical pods. The THC and terpenes have somehow slowed the growing of my disease and my pulmonologist monitors me to make sure the vapes aren't hurting me. Crazy how that happens
Damn ive smoked some of those dank vapes back in like 2017 or 2018 i think. They gave me a couple asthma attacks and i stopped using them. Watching this video makes me wonder if i should get my lungs examined lol.
Probably dont have any lasting damage if it was only a couple. These shits had me in the ER coughing up a lot of blood back in 2019 and im "good" other than a little less lung capacity than i used to
I was smoking all these back in the day. Now, I smoke Truelieve and Modern Flower vapes from an actual dispensary. You can tell a HUGE difference in real ones versus fake ones and one of those differences is the fake ones would absolutely floor you in potency. Those Dank vapes were absolutely off the chain. I smoked the fake ones for a long time and never had any weird side effects.
Being in high school at the beginning of the fake carts in dirty Florida high schools was crazy. Everyone had the nastiest, dark brown cart that tasted like burnt skin but you were GOOFY smoking ur hotdog water cart. I was talking to my friend who I used to smoke them with, and he said “I used to smoke those carts until they smoked me” My best friend was barely 90 pounds+ 15 years old and had to lay on a bathroom floor because he couldn’t hear for a minute 😬 Happy to say we have dispensaries now.
I feel bad for the kids who were duped with this stuff, but I also feel terrible for the legit vaping industry. I started vaping as an alternative to cigerettes back in the 2010s. The industry was exploding with small businesses, the evolution of products and vaping technology exploded, you could order box mods and atomizers online with no issue, order e-juice and nicotine without issue. This scandal absolutely cratered most of the industry, these days its a pain in the ass to try and acquire this stuff not to mention much more expensive. The feds swooped in and piled regulations on everything basically handing nicotine vaping over to the tobacco industry wholesale. They killed a lot of small businesses. The news media didn't bother to explain the whole issue with cutting fluid, Vitamin E Acetate vs Propylene Glycol etc. They just reported "vaping kills!" A lot of great nicotine e-juice companies went under - I have to mix my own juices now to keep it economical.
dont act like it was just this that killed it. the fact that teens were drawn to using pineapple unicorn cherry vape juice, the popcorn butter flavoring toxicity scandal, heavy metal toxicity cases, and this vitamin e scandal all contributed.
@@gladitsnotme yeah but fakes/dupes can be seen in almost every gas station even still which is very sad and definitely does a number and hurts the rep of legit companies. i deadass saw some PRIME EDIBLES at the gas station yesterday. shits insane and hasnt slowed down
you are right in that it killed small business and benefited big tobacco but it did regulation and safety measures as well not marketing it to childeren
@@gladitsnotmeyou don’t know what you’re talking about bud. Flavors are enticing to everyone not just kids. And they arent getting these products from us they’re getting them from their parents / black markets. Adults enjoy sweet stuff just as much as kids do don’t play it off like you don’t have some kind of sweet flavour you enjoy.
I remember the first time carts were introduced to my area. It was October 2017. It was packaged in a clear plastic box with a sticker on it that said Blue Dream. Had to smoke it from a pre historic looking vape box. The high from it wasn’t as intense as those dank vapes and other knock offs that came around in 2019 but it felt like a normal high you would get from flower. Looking back now I do remember the 2019 carts feeling like hard drugs. It would make me cough so bad and would have me feeling sick. Smoking it daily would feel like my days would pass by so fast and i wouldn’t remember much. Truly an era.
these carts have made it to UK , i got a lot of chest pains smoking them (10/10 boys brand specifically) , im so glad i quit smoking them years ago and my life is so much better, took years to recover, thank you so much for raising this issue as there are far too many people smoking these fakes especially outside USA
uk here too, never trusted them since before all this hit the news as everything is black market weed here. just got my medicinal now so things are changing
@@Marold22 it's really just upto if you trust your plug to be getting legit carts, it's the same as cali, some people sell stardawg in mylars & some have genuine tenco etc (can also send it off to wedinos for free testing)
@@Marold22 the carts and empty boxes can be bought online and dealers put anything in them, i smoked 10/10 boys for about 6 months, then after the lung infection and hospital trips i had to stop, i ended up getting costochondritis too from the lung infection
I remember my old coworker being the “cart” plug for us. I would usually smoke them before I went to bed and it felt very harsh. I would wake up with a huge headache everytime and shortness of breath at times. There’s bad and faulty flower products out there. Learn from our stories and check your sources with any products you plan on consuming
@@nedisahonkey San Francisco. I was new to using cartridges, and wasn’t used to the taxes implemented at dispensaries. I only smoke flower after that mess
this is good we need people giving explanations to people about this, everyone in my highschool vaped and its normalized never hit it once, even when people asked me for a hit i would tell them i dont do that then they would always respond good keep it that way, so i was always confused why they wouldent just stop but i soon realized its just addicting, so yea thanks for the shining light on this crappy situation. Just realizing any of my friends couldve done that accidently sounds scary. people got to be more cautious
I had a vitamin e acetate cart before. Got it from a “friend” that didn’t want it anymore.. wonder why. First few hits, you’d feel your lungs harden. Stopped using it immediately.
I’m a victim to this. I have trauma from the day I was rushed to the hospital from smoking a blackmarket cart. I was about to die from a collapsed lung, struggling to breathe, shaking and seeing things. I was in recovery for about 3 months and even still to this day, I have respiratory issues. I’m so grateful to be alive and have stayed away from that ever since.
Same I remember when I was afraid she would kill me in my sleep as a 12 year old after a devious kid named Diesel showed me her at a church group. After that I had to stay home alone at night. It’s kinda funny now but that picture always jumpscared me if it comes up unexpectedly.
I knew a plug who made thousands of fake carts, u could hit em 100 times and only get a light high, and they burned ur throat like u ripped a piping hot dab. They cost him 8$ to make each cart and he sold them for 40$. He got away with it and made about 60,000$. Pisses me off to this day
@@Scythe_Voltage We made our own batches too, all organic, no stretching the oil out - two types some with wax and diamonds, so just distillate and terps - everyone loved em. We had to make our own because we got batches of these Chronics, Danks, Exotics, Supremes and TKO's in - the TKOs were fire as fuck but quality started to depreciate so we ended up getting the TKO blacks, Stizzys and some other brands I can't think of at the moment Good times, lots of money made and lost
Thank you for posting this. I didn't know the whole story behind the vitamin E acetate clusterfuck before I watched this. You just got a new subscriber
Years ago before the documentary’s about “fake carts” came out I ended up in the hospital over 5 times from them and no one could figure out what was wrong with me, come to find out, faulty pens. They almost killed me.
The irony is I’m vaping watching this video but I’m trying to quit since I started vaping I’m losing all cardio if I walk fast I’m outta breath. I hope anyone who reads this will break whatever habit or addiction that is binding them.
Reduce nicotine whenever possible. All of these disposables currently in the US that are popular are all at a default max strength of 50mg per milliliter which is so high compared to when vaping started. The highest strength you could typically get back in 2013 was like 24mg per milliliter juice. Now add together high strength juice with convenient throw away style devices that people use like pacifiers all day and its a recipe for heart issues or high blood pressure n stuff. Nicotine is a stimulant remember that
Exercising can help that to a certain degree. I'm a smoker and noticed that wen regularly Exercising (especially endurance) greatly increases your cardio even while continuing to vape/smoke. Now obviously it's better to just stop altogether but you can still have good cardio while smoking.
I knew a guy who got hit with one of these. I was told by his friends that they were all smoking the same pen until the one guy got up and stumbled towards the wall before coughing up blood and passing out. Doctors told him he was lucky
Cereal carts, dank vapes , rove , muah meds ,supreme carts,I’ve seen a Mario cart that was tar black , bro if you survived these ur immune system is top notch
Thank you for making a video about this. As someone who was ordering a ton of carts from some questionable places back when this issue arose, I’m still a bit concerned about a handful of the carts I used. Wouldn’t you know it, the cheaper the cart, the more questionable the stuff. I remember this particular “Cereal Cart” , Captain Crunch flavor (like what?? lol). And it would burn the fuck out of my friends and I’s throats immediately when hitting. We eventually found some reliable sources, but thank god for all the dispensaries with safe ones these days
@@bcproductionvideos Probably everyone and their mom knew you could mix E oil, girl hormones and analogs in fake empty carts. Supposedly the E could throw off a gas chromatograph on some illegal analogs. But that might just be a rumor. I know because I keep my ear to the pavement and laffed in a few peoples faces and informed them they smoke boof chinese research chemicals and girl hormones and thats not from some dispensary. They promptly stopped and fired their "plugs" in every case. I wouldnt even trust Flower from a dispensary in 2024. This is all Whack and you should feel bad. Its all raid sprayed dime sacks. Time to hang up your hats. I guess the 1 caveat is if you vet your grower through a gas chromatograph on random audits. Everything after 2010 is SUS AF for real real not even capping, on god, dead homies.
Growing up I smoked on a ton of fucked up carts and eventually my right lung collapsed. Same happened with my friend, now I'm 6 months off weed in general and lifes never been better
I had just gotten to my vocational college when this broke. I remember that this also made everyone's reaction to covid so much slower because everyone thought the first covid cases were just more of these vapor cases
@@cadbane6462 Valid there is probably varying quality and reactions to it. I thought it wasn't very different personally but there are a lot more types of THC that are legal you could try as well (THC-P, D10, THC-V, etc)
This is why legalization needs to come on a federal level. I'm lucky to live in a legal state and the abundance of surprisingly cheap cannabis products at licensed dispensaries is great, from flower to edibles to carts, all of which have lab testing results printed directly on the packaging to ensure your safety. *Even in legal states, never buy carts on the street! It's almost never even a good deal. In my state, dispensaries such as Pure frequently run excellent deals on carts, bringing the price for each sometimes as low as $9.*
@@imstupidbut yooo that's a good deal. Best I've seen so far is 11 distillate for $100 or a little less than $10 each. Usually for MKX or plats. I do usually prefer live resin tho, the terps make it so much better and tbh give it a smoother hit.
Yep, people will see the results of prohibition and the black market (ESPECIALLY the people who literally run our country) and will still think that weed should still be illegal. Even worse, some state are trying to ban legal delta 8 products too like that's going to do ANY good. I've been buying lab tested and reputable delta 8 and it's so much safer than whatever tf is on the illegal market. If people were able to access legal, regulated, and tested products instead of whatever is on the street than vitamin e acetate poisoning would have never been an issue.
@@Angel91831 I've heard Cali's weed is some of the best and for great prices. Like $13 for a live resin cart is just great, even over here those kinds of carts are usually $15 minimum and that's if you buy multiple for a deal. Wasn't it one of the first states to embrace legalization?
So that's what thecause was! I remember seeing news stories about the lipoid pnuenmonia popping up everywhere but never saw the resolution. Thanks for the video its good to know it was a bad actor not some inherent danger of real thc carts.
At one point they thought the cartridges were infected, like hyperdermic needles being contaminated. Boy, it took a twisted turn... And then we also had individuals cutting the cut fluid into their refillable vapes. The amount of Honey was out of control. And it was also right before pandemic. So there were confusing cases arising months after. What we do for profits... 😔
Insanely good video. Got around at school my sophomore year, I had been smoking boof carts all the time, shit was damaging. Sometimes it wouldn't even get you high, just headaches and vomiting. Shit was nasty.
Mushrooms did wonders in my life. Over the course of my life, I've suffered from uncontrollable, depression, anxiety, alcohol, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for a long time and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. This is something that really needs to be used globally to help people with similar health challenges. I've been sober for 6 years and have my life back.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source? I have suffered from years of addiction, anxiety, and severe ptsd, thinking I got my panic attacks under control, they've come back with a vengeance, and I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't. It's absolutely crippling me, I'm in Estonia and it is hard to get a reliable source here. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
@@bouey8833Look for soap taste, metal can be just from one of your heaters making contact with the metal instead of the resin Since cartis are essentially oil, it's gonna screw up your throat if you're not used to it (same thing will happen if you put concentrated oils on your skin)
For our school it was the 2020-2021 school year. I would buy disposables super cheap in bulk like $5 each and resell them to my high-school classmates. At one point I'd walk out of the restroom every other day with $100+ dollars.
@@slasheztech5390 Wanna know 1 reason why you got to be 21 to smoke? Because I have a full time job that's pays me enough money to go to the actual store and purchase a cart without having to cry I don't have enough money to vape and end up buying a street cart. Also vaping took off way before CBD and THC carts. I was in Highschool 10yrs ago when it was a short fad to just buy the non THC non CBD carts, the ones you squeeze into the cotton. so 2014
@@Rabiiid I was about to say that. I remember seeing a lot of older kids vaping in 2015 when I was in middle school. It was around 2017-2019 when it really became mainstream and 2/3 people I'd know vaped/used THC carts
Now we have a worse problem where you throw away the entire vape instead of a pod. Plastics, circuit boards, batteries, and even lcd screens with geek bars
i remember when massachusetts banned the flavored vape bottles. i thought that was the dumbest shit considering the killer was the BLACK MARKET vapes and they respond by banning the legit stuff. the most insane part is i actually knew a minority of people who agreed with it, even though the black market not only got a bigger market but the environment is fucked with carts and dispos
Awhile ago Michigan was making a huge stink about banning flavored juul pods and right after that happened Breezes hit the scene and everyone started using those instead
@@mysterymcfistery9739 And? People still get addicted to pot every day. It's so much stronger than it has ever been in the history of mankind. Have you seen My Strange Adddictions? People can get addicted to literally anything. The fact you can't wrap your head around someone getting addicted to a psychoactive drug that literally makes you feel good is ridiculous.
Awesome video, this needs to be shown to all these kids still smoking these hot dog water carts today. Maybe they don't have vitamin e in them anymore but I promise you they still have a crazy amount of pesticides. I was smoking these fake carts heavy in 2017-2019 in the Chicago land area, they never made me sick but who knows what I was putting in my body and the damage that I did
It’s crazy I’ve smoked all the brands you showed being labeled black market and likely to have pesticides. These were popular when I was in 9th grade. I smoked Big Chiefs, Choice Carts, Dank Vapes, Cartels, Diamond Stix, Supreme Carts and Gold Coast clears . Crazy nothing happened to me
The craziest part is pure distillate isnt even that good either imo, and its already super cheap. This was fueled by pure greed and nothing more. Great video!
that creature that was talkin to kids throught peppa pig haunted me soo much when i was like 9 or 10. just seeing this picture brought so many memories of me not being able to sleep because i thought that shi was in my room.
One of my best friend AC died in 21’ from overdose of fake THC and NIc vapes that caused deflated lung and eventually coma and death… I tell all the young guys and gals out there it ain’t worth it I miss bro crazy :( hope everyone’s good ❤️ and prospers
There was a bad problem with these in phoenix around Christmas of 2019. My girlfriend saw a bunch of cases at the hospital. Freaked us both out because we both have bought street carts before.
Prime example of why I never buy carts off street. There is a reason why the shady dude is selling a 1g cart for $25 and dispensaries sell 1/2g carts for $50+
Lol keep overpaying dude😂 your "street" shit is junk bc you don't know what you're getting. I've been ordering bm for 6 years now and have had 1 bad product, that was just a quality issue. Stay getting taxed at the dispo tho😂
When me n the homies first started getting carts we had a dealer in our small co neighborhood that got a bunch of glo carts among real carts, and they were dirt cheap. So being lil fiens we macked em and nothing was off until our friend broke his arm and while on anesthesia he had lung complications and could’ve died. Long story short we respectfully let our dealer know and they removed them from the selection.
True story i was sophomore in hs i was supposed to graduate in 2020 but me and my friends had this routine we would eat lunch and find our friend pablo to hit his carts captn crunch etc well one day i hit it but that day was just different had an earth shattering moment like i was really going to pass out i was seeing like the stuff when you close your eyes like the colors you see but my eyes were open like i legit left my classroom was in a full state of panic didn’t tell noone tho and just walked around it was a horrible day .😢
my friend was a victim of this down in southern California, now his usage was by no means moderate, but normal safe carts wont do what these did to him, the acetate wicked a lot of hydration from his lungs and body, sent to the ICU with a lung infection, and lost over 50lbs in a week. im certain if he wasnt such a tough MF he would have been on the dead list. always check your products, nothing more dangeruos than a cut or laced supply.
I’m also a victim to this. I had a severe lung infection, doctors didn’t know what it was. I lost about 40 pounds and was in recovery for about 3 months. I was struggling to breathe and was shaking like crazy. I still got trauma until this day, and got respiratory issues.
If I were to make an cart and box set; it would be an cart set called "Water Vapes". Put in some water, and if you want, flavor it to blow out different steam colors via some water flavoring you'd find at a store. The cart would have 3 compartments: An heater disc, water storage, and then the vaporization catridge. The vaporization cartridge would release harmless steam when inhaled and exhaled.
I'm glad this shit didn't exist when I was in school, we were constantly scrounging together the money for a tens to smoke, deffo would have ended up with this shite
Honestly while its incredibly immoral and unethical, the one thing you can't genuinely fully fault the guy for is how bad it fucked people up, you can't really prove that he knew that it was going to hospitalize anyone, there literally wasn't a precedent.
Bro was malicious from the start tho; he bought random liquid to cut costs, didn't run tests which would have let him know the chemical was poison to lungs, and packaged it as a live resin without it actually being live resin. Consumers bought what was packaged and advertised but bro didn't deliver, instead, he ended up taking lives. Had nobody passed away bro would have been sued by the family's anyways but that's what happens for being cheap
Hello everyone! 👋 I hope you enjoyed this one! Once again, I apologize for the extremely late upload lol.
Speaking of late uploads, I recently hired Cam, an amazing video editor who will help me take my videos to the next level and post more often. I looked into a ton of editors to help me out, but Cam was the obvious choice because he’s a beast and way better than me! That’s why this video has a slightly different artistic style, but I love it, and I hope you all do too. 😊
Also, I wanted to shout out to Marissa Wenzke and David Downs at Leafly for researching and writing an amazing article on Josh Temple and this whole story. Their article was a huge help in making this video, so please check out their work on my sources page.
Once again, I hope you all enjoyed the video! I promise I’ll post more often lol. Only making banger documentaries for you 👍
No problem, rather wanna wait then to get a half finished-rushed video 👍
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u need to talk about the newer cart epidemic called delta 8 carts and thc b and others that u can buy online with no id anywhere in the us tons of websites with dangours disposibles that sent me to the hospitol
@@daymon_1 I was actually planning on looking into those products for my next video. I'm sorry to hear they affected you so badly
"the size of the city" then outlines the hole state?
@@daymon_1 you buying sketchy gas station D8 doesn’t make it an unsafe substance. it makes you a moron.
It shocks me that no one talks about this guy. You can’t find shit in the internet about him. We should find him ASAP! Thanks for this video!
Let’s not do that that’s illegal
Blew my mind how there's not a lick of any official documents. Nothing from any courts, social media... anything. Would love to know what this asshole's up to now. No problem it was a fun one to make!
@@brots3 I'm no expert, but I believe running from murder is ALSO illegal. 68x over.
@@brots3 You can citizens arrest a murderer.
@@0001-f3f I never said it wasn’t
Bro thank you for making this a 10 minute video and not a 50 min long “documentary”
yessir np! I try to make my stuff shorter but still give enough good info to make it a good story.
Idk man longer videos are also great, especially if they go into more detail and not just make shit up to fill 30 minutes with dramatic stories
i mean i prefer long form content but i get you
@@obsoletechannelarchive i blame the mr beastifacation of youtube
@@LucIndustries Totally agree. I try to only include good info and details, but not to a point where the details are pointless. Guys like EmpLemon who put out 50min masterpieces have an amazing skill... that shit would take me forever 😅I wanna get up to that point soon though
This is also what got flavored juul pods banned too, kids didnt want to fess up about smoking weed so they said they were vaping juuls instead.
They were also vaping juuls lol
@@tobiascooper8800 Which I also find hilarious as kids haven’t stolen cigarettes from their parents for the last 50+ years. Like “flavors” really matter or are “more enticing.” It’s learned behavior.
No juul for you now suck on this elf bar and all these other r brands with alot more flavor choices. Lmao
this was infuriating at the time. I had been vaping for years prior, and all of the sudden, everyone and their mother wanted to educate me on the dangers of vaping. I found that shit so annoying and disrespectful. Like they really dont gaf about your health, they just think they know better than you because they saw some stupid fkin article on facebook.
got approached many times by strangers, friends, family during this time. I smoked cigs for 8 years and was on my 7th year of vaping nic. No one ever told me shit when i smoked cigs, but all of the sudden they want to educate me about how vaping is killing people. I started responding rudely to anyone that did it because i found it so disrespectful
bro really played plague inc irl
fire game
NAAAAAAAH 😭
That’s just crazy :skull:
@@dickeylowthat’s crazy 💀
My comment is BETTER, STRONGER, & SMARTER 🧠 💀
@@4kMikle kiss yourself now
These carts are still out here in California an can be had for as little as 5$ a piece in bulk. Most people know to avoid them but they are still out there
Bro you can get a liter of distillate for under 900$ making carts for 2.50$ I would be very surprised if this is still happening with how cheap you can get distillate now.
That’s crazy man stay safe
@@linuxlinux9914 It is, that plus they add synthetic terps from China
I used one once and my throat is still damaged,
@@Djvids-k6b”i used one once” ☝️🤡 then it wouldn’t do anything 😐
"StRaIgHt FrOm CaLi BrO" was a common phrase during the "dankademic" 😂
Omfg 😂 it really was
I mean I keep 14+ on deck at time, carts HTFSE, Live Resin or Distillate & 8+ on each and many more, don’t know what type links y’all got unless y’all teens 😂
@@hakasonma8588everything you said is a lie. “I keep shit on deck” so does my local dispensary?
All this cali from Spain lol rite now our best bet is start a cali package shop (empty] if u browse for em it’s sold out all you see
Must be cali it’s in a pack a stone hard, dum little low IQ an vape enuf nicotine to stop my Nan craving 💯👍
Hey, Back in 2019 I was in the ICU for 4 days with EVALI. I was severely dehydrated and was at about 50% lung function, with a blood/oxygen level of 70% (nearing organ failure). They determined it was EVALI from vitamin E acetate inhalation. The cart I smoked was the exact ones shown at 3:09 (Big Chief branded), I have permanent lung damage from this. It was sold to me through someone my friends knew. Thank you for making this. It's hard to find many videos talking specifically about EVALI, and seeing one lets me and I'm sure many others understand what entirely happened and how some of us got to this point.
im so sorry to hear you went through that man, and I'm glad you're alive. A big part of the reason I made this was because no one had really covered what happened in detail, and it was such an interesting story that I had to put it together. Stay safe
@@bcproductionvideos You are the goat for doing this.
What’s your lung capacity at now? Are you able to run or exercise?
@@HCG At my most recent checkup (a year or so ago) they said I was up to about 88%-90% capacity, although I don't think I'll ever be at 100% again, I can exercise if I pace myself well enough, although I do run out of breath faster than most people my age.
@@LemurSCC That’s a significant improvement from where you were at. I have a bit of lung damage myself from something else and it’s reassuring to know there are others who understand. I get frustrated running out of breath doing things that used to barely tire me, but I’m hoping it gets better with time
My senior year of high school I used a good 5 or 6 dank vapes, about 10 TKO carts, a couple Roves, a couple kingpens you name it I chiefed them all. Thank the lord nothing happened to me.
I’ve had every cart u named too EXCEPT danks. It was actually the first cart I ever bought but I wouldn’t hit it bc something in me knew it wasn’t right
those TKO's were the shit back in HS bro
@@jacobjohnson2603and glo carts
Roves had me seeing minifigures in the fireplace bruh
They were cancer asf but I swear nothing ever got me as high as those thangs😂
I remember, about five or 6 years ago, two brothers were arrested and found with over 150,000 counterfeit carts. I watched the news report live, which showed the stack of carts. My friends and I had bought one of the exact ones shown in the broadcast at the beginning of our freshman year. It was bubblegum-flavored cart, I remember thinking to myself “damn.”
Did yall take a hit ?
I think I saw that bust too. Hoping you're doing good today
Bro was this by chance in Colorado?
This is a better anti-vaping advertisement than anything “truth” or “the real cost” have ever made.
The “truth” ads are so cringey
well don't buy fake stuff if your gonna
It's still a bit disingenuous to use the word "vape" which is more commonly associated with nicotine vapes instead of THC vapes which are the only market in which counterfeit products are common. I would bet my left nut that you can't find an instance of a counterfeit nicotine vape hospitalizing someone or the existence of a counterfeit nicotine vape to begin with
vaping and carts are separate entities, big homie.
Its actually the worst. "Nobody's died from the real stuff, but the fact that it's illegal gives way to a lot of fake stuff! It should be legal because its actually safer!" Is what the weed vaping community would prob feel in response to this. Also yeah boof carts and e-cigs are not the same thing, not even close.
I remember being super sick during 2018 winter and it was when I was into Dank vapes heavy. I remember not being able to eat, I felt like my lungs couldn’t breathe. Went to the doctor and they said they couldn’t find out what was wrong with me. After that I stop smoking them and got better in 2 weeks. Glad I stop when I did because I would’ve been one of those numbers.
Glad you’re ok now
Keep up with lung health. We don’t know the long term effects yet. I don’t want to scare you, but it’s better to be proactive than have something pop up seemingly out of nowhere years down the line.
I was hospitalized with pneumonia because of it
@@MrMsadley scary! Glad your okay and alive today
@@johnnytsunami7451 thank you! Me too. I’m just glad they figured out what was causing it.
as a victim of the cartdemic this video gave me a lot more insight on the situation without all the fear-mongering from most outlets discussing this. thank you!!
Your proof that advertising doesn't work on the dumb
@@Error4x5 You’re*
no problem! glad I could give you a better deep-dive
bro was trapping vitamin e
💀💀
I use to know a meth cook/dealer. He always cut his dope with vitamin b12. Coke usually has baby laxatives and stupid bs in it. Crack is half baking soda.
But really, how you going to explain that in jail, and not be passed around like a loose joint 😂😂
Is this my oomf wtf
@@shiorinnn lmfaooo yo
Them dank carts tasted like dawn soap sometimes💀
💀
fr
Brooooo. on GOD
Bro dank vapes were fucking banger tho
Glad i wasnt around the dank vapes era
I was in college at the time of the EVALI epidemic and actually wrote a report on it for one of my English classes, the teacher was super chill and actually loved it because it was such relevant news
@DaleGribble-m6s Sure thing. When I wrote the report, the EVALI cases were being looped into "vaping" as a whole, rather than just the problematic Vitamin E/Honey Cut carts. As BC mentioned, this is why so many fruit flavored vapes like mango JUUL pods started being pulled from the market. When in reality, most nicotine vapes were just fine.
So, my report dived into the reality of the situation, mentioning Honey Cut, the readily-available cart packaging, the lung issues caused by Vitamin E, and how nicotine vapes were being falsely accused. At the time, very little specifics were being published on the lung issues faced by Vitamin E vapers, aside from a couple X-Ray images and number of hospitalizations, so it was hard to say whether these victims would recover, making it even scarier tbh. Ironically, I chose this topic out of self interest, as I was still vaping carts myself, hoping to god I never encountered the bunk ones.
Now thats a paper I would actually wanna research and write haha. How cool
did you do show and tell?
nah this video should be played in every health class in america 10/10
Fr
No it shouldn’t
more like drug addict class
@@whiteboikev y u mad?😭
@@supermcfly100Are you fetarded
My brother was one of the 68. My family had a $70k bill from the hospital that still not paid and no money was paid from anyone
Rest in peace
Really sorry to hear that, pouring one out in honor of your bro 🫡 🍺
Rest In Peace to ur brother bro
Rip
sorry for your loss. :( that’s actually so fked up
My cousin that lives on the West Coast, was almost the 69th. She took some puffs off a friend’s Vape. And ended up in the hospital from smoking mold.
After I had my first real cart from a dispensary I realized I had never smoked a real one before I felt so lucky. Some of my friends still to this day have yet to smoke a real cart I’m amazed they haven’t had any lung issues yet
I know people who smoked dispensary vapes then still went back and bought street carts
LMFAO losers.
Not all street carts are bad, there are some that are really good shit if you know who's filling it, but otherwise don't even touch that shit if you don't know nothing about it's origins.
Yup I only get two brands, Flavorade and Coldfire. Anything distillate is garbage crap no matter how good people claim it is. Flavorade and Coldfire are cured resin done with only the best flower and extracted at -100 degrees. Seriously if you haven't tried those two brands you're missing out.
Cant believe I used to hit those fake vapes as a teen, I'm lucky I haven't been hospitalized. It's a good thing I was broke and couldn't afford much of those.
lmfaooo so true, bein broke is sometimes a good thing
I can't believe it either. What was wrong with you?
@drewski2001 did u not read teen?
@@drewski2001 believe it or not kids make bad decisions
@@hexie4412 I know, I was addicted to pron and stole Pokémon cards from Target, but really? Vaping?
Crazy thing is I have the lung disease the black market carts were giving teens, the only difference is I got it post infectiously and not from vape carts, Which means I got sick and got it. I had Pneumonia and Adenovirus back in 2008 (I was 7) which destroyed my lungs and the little branch like bronchioli you can see in a diagram of a lung, so now I'm on supplemental oxygen. Craziest thing is I live in Florida so I have access to good medical marijuana and I vape the medical pods. The THC and terpenes have somehow slowed the growing of my disease and my pulmonologist monitors me to make sure the vapes aren't hurting me. Crazy how that happens
Yes. Difference is that the teens had healthy lungs 🥴🥴
Damn ive smoked some of those dank vapes back in like 2017 or 2018 i think. They gave me a couple asthma attacks and i stopped using them. Watching this video makes me wonder if i should get my lungs examined lol.
Haha I mean if you haven’t had issues up to this point I’d bet your good, but that is weird to think about
The dank vape highs were damn near psychedelic
Dank vapes was a shit show I think delta 8 got me more high
what did they taste like
Probably dont have any lasting damage if it was only a couple. These shits had me in the ER coughing up a lot of blood back in 2019 and im "good" other than a little less lung capacity than i used to
I was the first kid in Iowa that got hospitalized from the same thing. They didn’t think I was going to make it
glad u made it buddy
lol you sound proud to be the first. Too bad you weren’t the first in Iowa to go
Do you breathe air now
@@saucemasterx911your a coward that says things in comments you never say face to face to people , glad we’re not the same
Damn dude.
I was smoking all these back in the day. Now, I smoke Truelieve and Modern Flower vapes from an actual dispensary. You can tell a HUGE difference in real ones versus fake ones and one of those differences is the fake ones would absolutely floor you in potency. Those Dank vapes were absolutely off the chain. I smoked the fake ones for a long time and never had any weird side effects.
Damn bro guess we are lucky
I won’t lie sometimes I could tell it was like vegetable oil
i too miss the pesticide filled dank vapes them juants hit hard asf
so you're telling me the fortnite cart isn't real, nahhhh
fr spunch bob cart do be hittin
Mario Kart is real bro trust
@@MaximillianJ Mario Cart 😂
@@HowlingWolves I remember the Mario Karts being BROWN and fortnite carts came light red 😂 never in my life would i pay $40 for that
Lol if you thought a legit CART company would market their carts to Fortnite users you deserved to get scammed off all those fake carts
Being in high school at the beginning of the fake carts in dirty Florida high schools was crazy. Everyone had the nastiest, dark brown cart that tasted like burnt skin but you were GOOFY smoking ur hotdog water cart.
I was talking to my friend who I used to smoke them with, and he said “I used to smoke those carts until they smoked me”
My best friend was barely 90 pounds+ 15 years old and had to lay on a bathroom floor because he couldn’t hear for a minute 😬
Happy to say we have dispensaries now.
I don't think you could pay me to live in Florida.
I can’t believe I survived this, I live in Madison wi, we had every cart they showed, dank vapes, TKOS, Dr. Moons😭that hit like crack in the 80s
I feel bad for the kids who were duped with this stuff, but I also feel terrible for the legit vaping industry. I started vaping as an alternative to cigerettes back in the 2010s. The industry was exploding with small businesses, the evolution of products and vaping technology exploded, you could order box mods and atomizers online with no issue, order e-juice and nicotine without issue. This scandal absolutely cratered most of the industry, these days its a pain in the ass to try and acquire this stuff not to mention much more expensive. The feds swooped in and piled regulations on everything basically handing nicotine vaping over to the tobacco industry wholesale. They killed a lot of small businesses. The news media didn't bother to explain the whole issue with cutting fluid, Vitamin E Acetate vs Propylene Glycol etc. They just reported "vaping kills!" A lot of great nicotine e-juice companies went under - I have to mix my own juices now to keep it economical.
Cigarettes kill ppl everyday but they don’t care 🤷♂️
dont act like it was just this that killed it. the fact that teens were drawn to using pineapple unicorn cherry vape juice, the popcorn butter flavoring toxicity scandal, heavy metal toxicity cases, and this vitamin e scandal all contributed.
@@gladitsnotme yeah but fakes/dupes can be seen in almost every gas station even still which is very sad and definitely does a number and hurts the rep of legit companies. i deadass saw some PRIME EDIBLES at the gas station yesterday. shits insane and hasnt slowed down
you are right in that it killed small business and benefited big tobacco but it did regulation and safety measures as well not marketing it to childeren
@@gladitsnotmeyou don’t know what you’re talking about bud. Flavors are enticing to everyone not just kids. And they arent getting these products from us they’re getting them from their parents / black markets. Adults enjoy sweet stuff just as much as kids do don’t play it off like you don’t have some kind of sweet flavour you enjoy.
I can see the commitment to continuously improving your videos. Both in writing style and editing. Great job, and thank you for the content 😊
Im happy you see the effort. It's only going to get better! 🤝
I remember the first time carts were introduced to my area. It was October 2017. It was packaged in a clear plastic box with a sticker on it that said Blue Dream. Had to smoke it from a pre historic looking vape box. The high from it wasn’t as intense as those dank vapes and other knock offs that came around in 2019 but it felt like a normal high you would get from flower. Looking back now I do remember the 2019 carts feeling like hard drugs. It would make me cough so bad and would have me feeling sick. Smoking it daily would feel like my days would pass by so fast and i wouldn’t remember much. Truly an era.
I was hospitalized for 6 days with pneumonia from dank carts. Real shit. Almost died
Why would u eve cop
I like drugs
@@brianfleming9734fake drugs tho?
Lmao what are you some kind of moral drug addict? Yes drugs man. DRUGS! Lmao they were hitting everywhere bro. Every plug had em. wtf were u at?
@@nasstynateback then not alot of people knew
these carts have made it to UK , i got a lot of chest pains smoking them (10/10 boys brand specifically) , im so glad i quit smoking them years ago and my life is so much better, took years to recover, thank you so much for raising this issue as there are far too many people smoking these fakes especially outside USA
uk here too, never trusted them since before all this hit the news as everything is black market weed here. just got my medicinal now so things are changing
I have a 10/10 boys THC (UK) but there imported from america and give the exact same high as bud do you think its still cut or not it was 50 quid
@@Marold22 it's really just upto if you trust your plug to be getting legit carts, it's the same as cali, some people sell stardawg in mylars & some have genuine tenco etc (can also send it off to wedinos for free testing)
@@Marold22 the carts and empty boxes can be bought online and dealers put anything in them, i smoked 10/10 boys for about 6 months, then after the lung infection and hospital trips i had to stop, i ended up getting costochondritis too from the lung infection
@@Idle_Hands yep, im never ever touching these carts in UK black market, im sticking to my flower only 💯
Great job on the video man, very well put together and narrated, just found the channel and you def earned the sub.
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you for taking the time to watch my stuff :)
I remember my old coworker being the “cart” plug for us. I would usually smoke them before I went to bed and it felt very harsh. I would wake up with a huge headache everytime and shortness of breath at times. There’s bad and faulty flower products out there. Learn from our stories and check your sources with any products you plan on consuming
What hell hole do you live in where you're buying street carts instead of just going to a dispensary?
@@nedisahonkey San Francisco. I was new to using cartridges, and wasn’t used to the taxes implemented at dispensaries. I only smoke flower after that mess
@@nedisahonkeynot gonna believe this but it isn’t legal everywhere lmao
Buddy did NOT have to jumpscare me with Momo.
I shall now hold a grudge on you for the rest of my life.
Fr bro i jumped😭
At least I'm awake now 😂
Def had her too zoomed in for that part 😅my bad brotha
Fr finally someone said something about it😭
@@blackqweenmars😭😭
this is good we need people giving explanations to people about this, everyone in my highschool vaped and its normalized never hit it once, even when people asked me for a hit i would tell them i dont do that then they would always respond good keep it that way, so i was always confused why they wouldent just stop but i soon realized its just addicting, so yea thanks for the shining light on this crappy situation. Just realizing any of my friends couldve done that accidently sounds scary. people got to be more cautious
I had a vitamin e acetate cart before. Got it from a “friend” that didn’t want it anymore.. wonder why. First few hits, you’d feel your lungs harden. Stopped using it immediately.
That's lame asf on your bros behalf, glad you knew not to mess with it asap
@@alextorres5467fr they should’ve thrown it away
I finished mine with vitamin e acetate and im currently struggling with lung issues 😭
I’m a victim to this. I have trauma from the day I was rushed to the hospital from smoking a blackmarket cart. I was about to die from a collapsed lung, struggling to breathe, shaking and seeing things. I was in recovery for about 3 months and even still to this day, I have respiratory issues. I’m so grateful to be alive and have stayed away from that ever since.
Maybe you shouldn't do drugs 💀
@@metelicgunz146 I was 14 at the time and grew up in a bad environment. Sorry i’m not a perfect child 🤷♂️
@@metelicgunz146 maybe you should eat sand
@@metelicgunz146hoooo small brain yea
Maybe you shouldn't be an idiot who uses sketchy cart. 0 sympathy.
0:03 idc who you say that is, thats Luka Doncic
🤣🤣🤣 bro was slinging dank vapes to the Mavs
that picture of momo brought up really horrible forgotten trauma 💀
LOL im so sorry
Bro wtf man
@@bcproductionvideos bro what the fuckkkkk
Same I remember when I was afraid she would kill me in my sleep as a 12 year old after a devious kid named Diesel showed me her at a church group. After that I had to stay home alone at night. It’s kinda funny now but that picture always jumpscared me if it comes up unexpectedly.
May those 68 people who lost there lives Rest In Peace🙏🏼❤️🕊
Their*
Piss*
@@Dankman3 why
@@Goomba81 because I am dankman
The Great Cart depression of 2018/2019 😭 I'll never forget that era
I knew a plug who made thousands of fake carts, u could hit em 100 times and only get a light high, and they burned ur throat like u ripped a piping hot dab. They cost him 8$ to make each cart and he sold them for 40$. He got away with it and made about 60,000$. Pisses me off to this day
@@Scythe_Voltage We made our own batches too, all organic, no stretching the oil out - two types some with wax and diamonds, so just distillate and terps - everyone loved em.
We had to make our own because we got batches of these Chronics, Danks, Exotics, Supremes and TKO's in - the TKOs were fire as fuck but quality started to depreciate so we ended up getting the TKO blacks, Stizzys and some other brands I can't think of at the moment
Good times, lots of money made and lost
This shit was happening in like 2014 lol
@@perc3136 I'm talking about the News Coverage ruining the market
@@Scythe_Voltageshi dont hate the player hate the game 60 bands is 60 bands
Brother I’m a budtender and a teen who survived the epidemic this video is content that inspires brother 🙌🏻 keep up the great work
Yessir! Thank you for the nice words
Bruh
That makes a lot of sense why i had such bad lung problems from 2017- 2019
Never heard of this channel before. Narrator has a great voice, it seems pretty informed and the editing was great
Thank you for the kind words 😄
Same with me. Sounds very professional but not that boring lecture tone
@@Hablonoenlgles agreed. Hate monotone but also not a fan of over dramatic presentation. This channel hits the sweet spot
Bro ive been looking into this shi for the past 2 years and learned shi for this vid, good vid bro keep it up
That’s dope! Thank you brother
Thank you for posting this. I didn't know the whole story behind the vitamin E acetate clusterfuck before I watched this. You just got a new subscriber
no problem! I didn't know either so making this video was great for learning more about the situation. appreciate the sub!
Years ago before the documentary’s about “fake carts” came out I ended up in the hospital over 5 times from them and no one could figure out what was wrong with me, come to find out, faulty pens. They almost killed me.
5 times. 🤦♂️
wdym faulty pens? pens as in writing ?
Why didn't you stop vaping?
Dank Vapes is now a licensed brand out of California.
Great video by the way 👏🏼
I saw that! I wonder who ended up making that happen lol. Thank you!
NO THANKS! they can sell poison to someone else, wont be me.
Probably someone took the official name and has nothing to do with this, but that's just a guess
thank you for covering this, im from wisconsin and its sad how little people know that it was fake dab carts not nicotine vapes
no problem! I wanted to make this to offer a better deep-dive on the subject because not man outlets covered it well
The irony is I’m vaping watching this video but I’m trying to quit since I started vaping I’m losing all cardio if I walk fast I’m outta breath. I hope anyone who reads this will break whatever habit or addiction that is binding them.
Reduce nicotine whenever possible. All of these disposables currently in the US that are popular are all at a default max strength of 50mg per milliliter which is so high compared to when vaping started. The highest strength you could typically get back in 2013 was like 24mg per milliliter juice. Now add together high strength juice with convenient throw away style devices that people use like pacifiers all day and its a recipe for heart issues or high blood pressure n stuff. Nicotine is a stimulant remember that
@@brickcityvapors this a thc video bruh
Exercising can help that to a certain degree. I'm a smoker and noticed that wen regularly Exercising (especially endurance) greatly increases your cardio even while continuing to vape/smoke.
Now obviously it's better to just stop altogether but you can still have good cardio while smoking.
Have u been using counterfeit thc carts? I'm a skater and Ive been smoking a lot of weed for four years and my cardio is still fine.
Just switch to regular weed it's easy to go from sucking a cart all day long to smoking actual weed flower once a day
I knew a guy who got hit with one of these. I was told by his friends that they were all smoking the same pen until the one guy got up and stumbled towards the wall before coughing up blood and passing out. Doctors told him he was lucky
Cereal carts, dank vapes , rove , muah meds ,supreme carts,I’ve seen a Mario cart that was tar black , bro if you survived these ur immune system is top notch
Smoked em for years never made it to the hospital but deff have lung damage
Only tapped muha meds 😂
Im not buying any more street carts after watching this
🤝
Shouldn’t be buying from people anyway legal store shit is taxed and is legal so you don’t get into trouble
Too many dispensaries nowadays sell $15-20 1g carts to still be risking one's lungs on street carts.
@@Hayden-tp4cbwho gives a fuck.
@@sweatyhotdabs80$ half gram live
You get this stuff in UK, and in Wales. Different packaging but the exact same thing
That’s crazy it went international
i literally mentioned the same thing too, its made it to london
It's wild to me that the UK doesn't have legal cannabis at this point.
@@nedisahonkey you would think with 1.5-2 million monthly users
No it’s not. I’ve been using carts for about 5 years on and off. It depends on where you live.
Thank you for making a video about this. As someone who was ordering a ton of carts from some questionable places back when this issue arose, I’m still a bit concerned about a handful of the carts I used. Wouldn’t you know it, the cheaper the cart, the more questionable the stuff. I remember this particular “Cereal Cart” , Captain Crunch flavor (like what?? lol). And it would burn the fuck out of my friends and I’s throats immediately when hitting. We eventually found some reliable sources, but thank god for all the dispensaries with safe ones these days
lmaooo dude I remember seeing the most boof looking carts in college too. I think one was fruit loops lmaooo. And no problem it was fun to make :)
another great video, i’ve always heard about vitamin e acetate in street carts but never knew the origin/where it came from
Thank you my man! I thought the same thing. I remember seeing all the stories about it but never knew it was from this one guy
@@bcproductionvideos Probably everyone and their mom knew you could mix E oil, girl hormones and analogs in fake empty carts. Supposedly the E could throw off a gas chromatograph on some illegal analogs. But that might just be a rumor. I know because I keep my ear to the pavement and laffed in a few peoples faces and informed them they smoke boof chinese research chemicals and girl hormones and thats not from some dispensary. They promptly stopped and fired their "plugs" in every case. I wouldnt even trust Flower from a dispensary in 2024. This is all Whack and you should feel bad. Its all raid sprayed dime sacks. Time to hang up your hats. I guess the 1 caveat is if you vet your grower through a gas chromatograph on random audits. Everything after 2010 is SUS AF for real real not even capping, on god, dead homies.
the black market. this simply would not exist if it were federally legal. the government is literally handing over this market to criminals
Growing up I smoked on a ton of fucked up carts and eventually my right lung collapsed. Same happened with my friend, now I'm 6 months off weed in general and lifes never been better
I had just gotten to my vocational college when this broke. I remember that this also made everyone's reaction to covid so much slower because everyone thought the first covid cases were just more of these vapor cases
Even buying sketchy D8 carts from the gas station is safer than street carts.
D8 😂😂😂
Try HHC its legal for the same reason as D8 but is closer to D9 in potency
@@cadbane6462dude no ppl use carts for a reason try smoking a loud ass blunt without getting caught
@@bruhstandler tried it and didnt do anything
@@cadbane6462 Valid there is probably varying quality and reactions to it. I thought it wasn't very different personally but there are a lot more types of THC that are legal you could try as well (THC-P, D10, THC-V, etc)
This is why legalization needs to come on a federal level. I'm lucky to live in a legal state and the abundance of surprisingly cheap cannabis products at licensed dispensaries is great, from flower to edibles to carts, all of which have lab testing results printed directly on the packaging to ensure your safety.
*Even in legal states, never buy carts on the street! It's almost never even a good deal. In my state, dispensaries such as Pure frequently run excellent deals on carts, bringing the price for each sometimes as low as $9.*
wow i know exactly where you are i just got some carts from Pure today
i got 7 Select carts (4 distillate+ 3 live resin) for like $70
@@imstupidbut yooo that's a good deal. Best I've seen so far is 11 distillate for $100 or a little less than $10 each. Usually for MKX or plats. I do usually prefer live resin tho, the terps make it so much better and tbh give it a smoother hit.
Yep, people will see the results of prohibition and the black market (ESPECIALLY the people who literally run our country) and will still think that weed should still be illegal. Even worse, some state are trying to ban legal delta 8 products too like that's going to do ANY good. I've been buying lab tested and reputable delta 8 and it's so much safer than whatever tf is on the illegal market. If people were able to access legal, regulated, and tested products instead of whatever is on the street than vitamin e acetate poisoning would have never been an issue.
@@RedVRCCso thankful I live in California, some of the best bud over here and live resin carts as cheap as 13$ in dispensarys
@@Angel91831 I've heard Cali's weed is some of the best and for great prices. Like $13 for a live resin cart is just great, even over here those kinds of carts are usually $15 minimum and that's if you buy multiple for a deal. Wasn't it one of the first states to embrace legalization?
So that's what thecause was! I remember seeing news stories about the lipoid pnuenmonia popping up everywhere but never saw the resolution. Thanks for the video its good to know it was a bad actor not some inherent danger of real thc carts.
At one point they thought the cartridges were infected, like hyperdermic needles being contaminated.
Boy, it took a twisted turn... And then we also had individuals cutting the cut fluid into their refillable vapes. The amount of Honey was out of control.
And it was also right before pandemic. So there were confusing cases arising months after.
What we do for profits... 😔
Insanely good video. Got around at school my sophomore year, I had been smoking boof carts all the time, shit was damaging. Sometimes it wouldn't even get you high, just headaches and vomiting. Shit was nasty.
Omg that's horrible
Mushrooms did wonders in my life. Over the course of my life, I've suffered from uncontrollable, depression, anxiety, alcohol, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for a long time and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. This is something that really needs to be used globally to help people with similar health challenges. I've been sober for 6 years and have my life back.
Congrats on your recovery. Most people don't realize that psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source? I have suffered from years of addiction, anxiety, and severe ptsd, thinking I got my panic attacks under control, they've come back with a vengeance, and I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't. It's absolutely crippling me, I'm in Estonia and it is hard to get a reliable source here. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
bro please drop more vids i’ve already binged all and need more 😫
I'm trying!! These take a while to make lol
Ion appreciate how you jumpscared me in the beginning!
This is the first time in a while I’ve liked,shared and subscribed all in one. Keep up the good work
Hell yeah thank you!
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I've gotten a fakie before. They're so different that if you know your THC carts, you'll know they're not right.
Got one for $25 from a native dispo yesterday. Scratches my throat pretty badly tho. Tastes like metal sometimes too. Fake?
@@bouey8833if u think it is then it probably is
Yeah it hurts very harsh
@@bouey8833 nah some carts are just harsh on the throat its normal
@@bouey8833Look for soap taste, metal can be just from one of your heaters making contact with the metal instead of the resin
Since cartis are essentially oil, it's gonna screw up your throat if you're not used to it (same thing will happen if you put concentrated oils on your skin)
bro i was watching this at night and that momo pic caught me off guard 😭😭😭
I'm watching in morning, now I'm DEFINITELY awake
Thank god I was watching in the school bus
from the words you use like hotdog water I know you smoke lol
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@@bcproductionvideos ;)
“chiefing”😂
@@wavy7174w pfp
“Boof “ 😂
Vaping skyrocketed for my school in middle school, exactly when vaping started really taking off (2018-2019)
yeah, it just fucking pisses me off, kids in my middle school think they're cool cause they fuck up their lungs.
For our school it was the 2020-2021 school year. I would buy disposables super cheap in bulk like $5 each and resell them to my high-school classmates. At one point I'd walk out of the restroom every other day with $100+ dollars.
@@slasheztech5390 Wanna know 1 reason why you got to be 21 to smoke? Because I have a full time job that's pays me enough money to go to the actual store and purchase a cart without having to cry I don't have enough money to vape and end up buying a street cart. Also vaping took off way before CBD and THC carts. I was in Highschool 10yrs ago when it was a short fad to just buy the non THC non CBD carts, the ones you squeeze into the cotton. so 2014
@@Rabiiid I was about to say that. I remember seeing a lot of older kids vaping in 2015 when I was in middle school. It was around 2017-2019 when it really became mainstream and 2/3 people I'd know vaped/used THC carts
@@Rabiiid the fuck are you talking about 😂 you definitely smoked too much vitamin e, ya brain is cooked
I hate my brain for this, but to be honest, when I saw the thumbnail, the first thought that popped into my mind was "one more"
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dont forget they blamed flavor vapor products too
Don’t forget they are still trying too 💀
Now we have a worse problem where you throw away the entire vape instead of a pod. Plastics, circuit boards, batteries, and even lcd screens with geek bars
Still prob bad for you
i remember when massachusetts banned the flavored vape bottles. i thought that was the dumbest shit considering the killer was the BLACK MARKET vapes and they respond by banning the legit stuff. the most insane part is i actually knew a minority of people who agreed with it, even though the black market not only got a bigger market but the environment is fucked with carts and dispos
Awhile ago Michigan was making a huge stink about banning flavored juul pods and right after that happened Breezes hit the scene and everyone started using those instead
I remember seeing everyone around me get hooked😭
Bro it’s weak ass weed and filler lmao not crack tf.
Cornball
@@mysterymcfistery9739ong, dudes an idiot
@@mysterymcfistery9739 And? People still get addicted to pot every day. It's so much stronger than it has ever been in the history of mankind. Have you seen My Strange Adddictions? People can get addicted to literally anything. The fact you can't wrap your head around someone getting addicted to a psychoactive drug that literally makes you feel good is ridiculous.
Awesome video, this needs to be shown to all these kids still smoking these hot dog water carts today. Maybe they don't have vitamin e in them anymore but I promise you they still have a crazy amount of pesticides. I was smoking these fake carts heavy in 2017-2019 in the Chicago land area, they never made me sick but who knows what I was putting in my body and the damage that I did
Thank you! Dude right those things are chock full of shit.
It’s crazy I’ve smoked all the brands you showed being labeled black market and likely to have pesticides. These were popular when I was in 9th grade. I smoked Big Chiefs, Choice Carts, Dank Vapes, Cartels, Diamond Stix, Supreme Carts and Gold Coast clears . Crazy nothing happened to me
I always hit the bigcheifs and nothing happened lmao
Well we were indestructible when we were young
Same got too faded once shii had me throw up at school
Supreme carts 😅
Big chiefs are in legit stores tho
The craziest part is pure distillate isnt even that good either imo, and its already super cheap. This was fueled by pure greed and nothing more. Great video!
Thank you!
It doesn't get any better than *pure* my guy.
If your "pure" distillate is hot dog water you're not getting pure distillate..
@@dakota9821 Nah all distillate just sucks. Its meant for high schoolers.
just get a rig oh my god
that creature that was talkin to kids throught peppa pig haunted me soo much when i was like 9 or 10. just seeing this picture brought so many memories of me not being able to sleep because i thought that shi was in my room.
Momo? Same except I was 12 in 6th grade. I’m almost 18 now but I still got scared
One of my best friend AC died in 21’ from overdose of fake THC and NIc vapes that caused deflated lung and eventually coma and death…
I tell all the young guys and gals out there it ain’t worth it I miss bro crazy :( hope everyone’s good ❤️ and prospers
that's awful to hear. sorry for your loss :(
Bro I used to smoke these back in 2019 lmfao, the fact I never got sick is insane. I only smoke dispensary now so be careful yall ❤
There was a bad problem with these in phoenix around Christmas of 2019. My girlfriend saw a bunch of cases at the hospital. Freaked us both out because we both have bought street carts before.
Phoenix here!!! early 2020 my friend had a seizure from hitting a cart despite being a regular stoner. Shit it Arizona hard
I know y’all remember them willy wonka carts 😂
Prime example of why I never buy carts off street. There is a reason why the shady dude is selling a 1g cart for $25 and dispensaries sell 1/2g carts for $50+
Lol keep overpaying dude😂 your "street" shit is junk bc you don't know what you're getting. I've been ordering bm for 6 years now and have had 1 bad product, that was just a quality issue. Stay getting taxed at the dispo tho😂
@@ryanof3004 bro is the teens in the video
It’s a prime example of why you don’t buy carts off of just anybody lol
Ew imagine going to dispensary and paying 70$ for a gram 🤡 🌎
@i8gaming732 forrrealll bro, then they try to justify it like "ohh at least i know it's good man". Just admit if you don't have a plug😂😂
i hate that you added the monster that im scared of into this video now i have to think about it again 😭😭😭😭😭
Lmaooo that’s my bad. Shouldn’t have made it a jump scare lol
Lol
@@bcproductionvideos stopped thinking about it for like 3 years and then i had to think about it again lol
When me n the homies first started getting carts we had a dealer in our small co neighborhood that got a bunch of glo carts among real carts, and they were dirt cheap. So being lil fiens we macked em and nothing was off until our friend broke his arm and while on anesthesia he had lung complications and could’ve died. Long story short we respectfully let our dealer know and they removed them from the selection.
This is why it’s important to always know your plug 💯
Or just go to the dispensary or stizzy
No, this is just more proof that prohibition of any drug is ultimately fruitless and only causes more suffering for everyone involved.
Or just be an adult and go to a dispensary and not have to meet up with another man in secret at his discretion
@@aldo1871nahhh bruh on god no cap no cap 💯 you gotta kNoW uR plUg
This channel is under rated. Need more subs.
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I read the title and thought 68 kids died for the sour patch kids cart lol
Thank you for reporting accurately.
Bro, you didn’t have to jump scare me with Momo bro
lol my bad
True story i was sophomore in hs i was supposed to graduate in 2020 but me and my friends had this routine we would eat lunch and find our friend pablo to hit his carts captn crunch etc well one day i hit it but that day was just different had an earth shattering moment like i was really going to pass out i was seeing like the stuff when you close your eyes like the colors you see but my eyes were open like i legit left my classroom was in a full state of panic didn’t tell noone tho and just walked around it was a horrible day .😢
my friend was a victim of this down in southern California, now his usage was by no means moderate, but normal safe carts wont do what these did to him, the acetate wicked a lot of hydration from his lungs and body, sent to the ICU with a lung infection, and lost over 50lbs in a week. im certain if he wasnt such a tough MF he would have been on the dead list. always check your products, nothing more dangeruos than a cut or laced supply.
If you're doing Street Carts in California that's just a case of natural selection at work.
I’m also a victim to this. I had a severe lung infection, doctors didn’t know what it was. I lost about 40 pounds and was in recovery for about 3 months. I was struggling to breathe and was shaking like crazy. I still got trauma until this day, and got respiratory issues.
If I were to make an cart and box set; it would be an cart set called "Water Vapes". Put in some water, and if you want, flavor it to blow out different steam colors via some water flavoring you'd find at a store. The cart would have 3 compartments: An heater disc, water storage, and then the vaporization catridge. The vaporization cartridge would release harmless steam when inhaled and exhaled.
The amount of fake carts in schools in the uk is crazy.
Stay safe
Maybe stop being a scruffy lol chav and do some work
Do you guys still have the soapbar weed? I remember being legitimately angry when I got some of that stuff.
I'm glad this shit didn't exist when I was in school, we were constantly scrounging together the money for a tens to smoke, deffo would have ended up with this shite
@@ReeseChown it's out there still but not so much
Honestly while its incredibly immoral and unethical, the one thing you can't genuinely fully fault the guy for is how bad it fucked people up, you can't really prove that he knew that it was going to hospitalize anyone, there literally wasn't a precedent.
Bro was malicious from the start tho; he bought random liquid to cut costs, didn't run tests which would have let him know the chemical was poison to lungs, and packaged it as a live resin without it actually being live resin. Consumers bought what was packaged and advertised but bro didn't deliver, instead, he ended up taking lives. Had nobody passed away bro would have been sued by the family's anyways but that's what happens for being cheap
You can absolutely blame this dude, he sold unregulated boof to children
@@Zikato I didn't say he wasn't to blame though
I almost died from this :( four years later still in the process of recovery; and idk I'm still too traumatized to come out and tell my story.
thankyou for spreading valuable information. i love your channel
thank you for watching! glad you like it
I can't believe I did't know this!
Crazy stuff!