{"id":214833,"date":"2024-03-19T12:51:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/cannabis-vaping-liquids-contain-lead-and-other-toxic-metals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:23","slug":"cannabis-vaping-liquids-contain-lead-and-other-toxic-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/cannabis-vaping-liquids-contain-lead-and-other-toxic-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis vaping liquids contain lead and other toxic metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/18182441\/SEI_196546591.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2422901 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"Richard Vogel\/AP\/ Alamy\" data-caption=\"Cannabis vape pens can contain unsafe levels of heavy metals\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Cannabis vape pens can contain unsafe levels of heavy metals<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Richard Vogel\/AP\/ Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis vape liquids contain toxic heavy metals that do not come from the device itself. In both legal and illegal products, the concentration of nano-sized metal particles exceeds the safe limits for metal intake.<\/p>\n<p>Vaping is touted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2324582-vaping-v-smoking-why-the-fda-may-limit-access-to-flavoured-vapes\/\">healthier alternative to smoking<\/a> because heating a drug into an inhalable vapor, rather than burning it, releases lower levels of toxic chemicals. However, vaping liquid does contain other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lung.org\/quit-smoking\/e-cigarettes-vaping\/whats-in-an-e-cigarette\">dangerous additives<\/a> such as benzene, a carcinogen also found in car exhaust. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7233525\/\">Research<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2422899-cannabis-vaping-liquids-contain-lead-and-other-toxic-metals\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Cannabis vape pens can contain unsafe levels of heavy metals Richard Vogel\/AP\/ Alamy Cannabis vape liquids contain toxic heavy metals that do not come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336235,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214833\/revisions\/336235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}