BacteriaA senior from Garnet Valley High School in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania earned a national science award recently for a project to determine the harmful effects (if any) of vaping.
Natalia Orlovsky tested the effects of e-cig liquids on bacteria and human cells. She also tested nicotine. She discovered that the e-cig liquid itself caused cells to produce chemicals associated with stress. That was true even when there was no nicotine present. While this research was only done in cells, not people, the young scientist notes, “The fact that it could apply to people is reason to do more research. Vaping may indeed be safer than cigarettes, but that doesn’t mean its harmless.”
THCA has gained substantial attention over the last year due to a loophole in the Farm Bill that has allowed countless hemp companies to sell traditional psychoactive cannabis as a legal hemp product.
As we continue to chart the course through the ever changing waters of the hemp industry, recent legislative and regulatory developments have given rise to both challenges and opportunities for business owners and stakeholders.
Hemp and cannabis beverages are the latest in this consumer-driven quest to find the perfect method of getting the essential chemicals found in the cannabis plant—from the garden to the body, the body to the mind.
The CEO and founder of Ultimate Product
Distributors (UPD) was the first to suggest
that vaping products should be sold alongside
cigarettes. If that seems obvious, well, that’s how
the greatest ideas always look in the rearview
mirror.
In a significant victory for the hemp industry, Governor Ron DeSantis has vetoed Senate Bill 1698, which would have imposed stringent regulations on hemp-derived products.