I don’t know if China was to blame for this. I remember there being some confusion because the affected carts were all pretty much the same brand. But that’s because they were cheap (empty) carts purchased from China. They weren’t necessarily filled in China. And just because the packaging said “dank vapes” or whatever didn’t make it a specific brand or pinpoint a specific manufacture. They could have had anything in them. Basically the real culprit was greed and stupidity and that is something that is spread across both the US and China.
Yea many could have been filled and coming from China as well, this is the same country who gave us wuhan bio-nuke and enough fentanyl to take out every man woman and child of many cities.
when rec marijuana shops in CA and CO started outsourcing their packaging to china, china did what they always do and they sold that companies IP to anyone willing to fork over the cash. the guy out west who pioneered the "Brass knuckles" brand has been going through the battle with china for years now... every time he comes out with a new design to distinguish himself from the fake knockoffs... within a few weeks china is selling his new packaging to anyone with cash.
you can go on dhgate right now and still buy the ccells and the flat packed packaging complete with stickers to seal the boxes or a heat seal machine to seal the foil pouches.
dank vapes was a popular one, they were small paper boxes with cartoonish characters on the front artwork that indicated the flavor of the cart inside. they were popular for a few reasons... mainly because they were a very small box so they were easy to conceal and transport in large quantities.
this same sized box was also used for the "cereal" flavored ones that had all your favorite cartoon cereal company characters on the box. honey nut cherrios and fruity pebbles were best sellers.
exotics and mario carts came in the foil pouches and you could order a heat sealer to seal up the pouches.
i preferred the kingpens, they were a black box with the image of a king from a pack of cards. the box was bigger than the danks (and the cereals) but the finished package was much more impressive... had a sticker with that king logo to seal the box (making it look more official), and inside the box the cart was in a little black plastic pop-top tube nested in a cardboard holder. the packaging was way nicer and the black plastic tube helped prevent pressure induced leaking from temp swings. like it's own little insulated dead air space container that helped it stay intact.
when we bought them we'd buy a mixed box of 4 different "flavors" indicated on the final product box. when you made the "lemon haze" you just used lemon terps when you mixed the oil.
you could literally buy any brand packaging, with any flavor on the label, 100, 1,000, 10,000 at a time. cheaper the more you bought.
then all you needed to do was buy the empty ccell carts in flats of 100.
just search dhgate for "vape cart" and you'll see what i'm talking about.
nothing comes from china with any liquid in them, they are all empty carts and empty packaging letting you fill them with whatever you want.
responsible people filled them with THC extract.
but when that market got flooded with competition, shady people began putting all sorts of shit in them and selling them for cheap. you could literally fill them with citronella oil and idiots would smoke them.
no joke, a friend brought me one he suspected was fake and i'm convinced thats exactly what was inside it... smelled like it, flowed like it... i didn't try hitting it but he said when he did it tasted like a mosquito candle.
I don’t know if China was to blame for this. I remember there being some confusion because the affected carts were all pretty much the same brand. But that’s because they were cheap (empty) carts purchased from China. They weren’t necessarily filled in China. And just because the packaging said “dank vapes” or whatever didn’t make it a specific brand or pinpoint a specific manufacture. They could have had anything in them. Basically the real culprit was greed and stupidity and that is something that is spread across both the US and China.
Yea many could have been filled and coming from China as well, this is the same country who gave us wuhan bio-nuke and enough fentanyl to take out every man woman and child of many cities.
they weren't all the same brand.
when rec marijuana shops in CA and CO started outsourcing their packaging to china, china did what they always do and they sold that companies IP to anyone willing to fork over the cash. the guy out west who pioneered the "Brass knuckles" brand has been going through the battle with china for years now... every time he comes out with a new design to distinguish himself from the fake knockoffs... within a few weeks china is selling his new packaging to anyone with cash.
you can go on dhgate right now and still buy the ccells and the flat packed packaging complete with stickers to seal the boxes or a heat seal machine to seal the foil pouches.
dank vapes was a popular one, they were small paper boxes with cartoonish characters on the front artwork that indicated the flavor of the cart inside. they were popular for a few reasons... mainly because they were a very small box so they were easy to conceal and transport in large quantities.
this same sized box was also used for the "cereal" flavored ones that had all your favorite cartoon cereal company characters on the box. honey nut cherrios and fruity pebbles were best sellers.
exotics and mario carts came in the foil pouches and you could order a heat sealer to seal up the pouches.
i preferred the kingpens, they were a black box with the image of a king from a pack of cards. the box was bigger than the danks (and the cereals) but the finished package was much more impressive... had a sticker with that king logo to seal the box (making it look more official), and inside the box the cart was in a little black plastic pop-top tube nested in a cardboard holder. the packaging was way nicer and the black plastic tube helped prevent pressure induced leaking from temp swings. like it's own little insulated dead air space container that helped it stay intact.
when we bought them we'd buy a mixed box of 4 different "flavors" indicated on the final product box. when you made the "lemon haze" you just used lemon terps when you mixed the oil.
you could literally buy any brand packaging, with any flavor on the label, 100, 1,000, 10,000 at a time. cheaper the more you bought.
then all you needed to do was buy the empty ccell carts in flats of 100.
just search dhgate for "vape cart" and you'll see what i'm talking about.
nothing comes from china with any liquid in them, they are all empty carts and empty packaging letting you fill them with whatever you want.
responsible people filled them with THC extract.
but when that market got flooded with competition, shady people began putting all sorts of shit in them and selling them for cheap. you could literally fill them with citronella oil and idiots would smoke them.
no joke, a friend brought me one he suspected was fake and i'm convinced thats exactly what was inside it... smelled like it, flowed like it... i didn't try hitting it but he said when he did it tasted like a mosquito candle.
people suck.