The logical leap from black market THC making people sick and die would be to FEDERALLY LEGALIZE THC. It is a no brainer. If all Marijuana were able to be sold the way it is in California, or Colorado (or 9 other adult use states) it could be regulated, taxed, and SAFE. That should have been the real push. In states where Marijuana is legalized, do you know what happens? Prescription Opioid sales go down, Alcohol sales go down, crime goes down, the prison population for low level offenders goes down.
Sooooo, rather than all of that good happening, they flip the script and instead somehow through some trick of mass-media mind-control the entire conversation was altered to suit an entirely different agenda, flavored nicotine vapes?! Now flavored nicotine vapes are targeted, and though fear mongering and false correlation are being fast tracked to extinction. An industry built on converting Cigarette smokers away from burning tar and carcinogenic tobacco leaves into a much healthier lifestyle is now on the verge of collapse, and the true victims of what would be a modern "vape prohibition" are not only the *11 million legal vapers in America (*statistic via the Economist), but a huge percentage of their spouses, and families who will die due to second hand smoke. According to the Lung Cancer Statistics by the LUNGevity Foundation, 10 to 15% of new lung cancer cases are among people who have never smoked. Let's do some secondhand math. If only 1/2 of the 11 million vapers in America go back to smoking because the flavored vape they were using becomes no longer legally available. that's 5.5 million. Now let's say that each of those people have a spouse in the home with them, who will now once again be subjected to second hand smoke. If 15% of new lung-cancer cases are among never-smokers. If 10% of the spouses of these spouses die from lung cancer or heart disease caused by second hand smoke, that's 550,000 new second hand smoking deaths.