To the editor: California appears near banning disposable vape pens (“California moves to outlaw disposable vapes, a toxic trash plague from beaches to battery fires,” Aug. 27).
Meeting Invoice 762, now on the governor’s desk, would cease the manufacture and sale of single-use, battery-embedded nicotine vape gadgets. Hashish gadgets, nevertheless, were written out of this bill after business lobbying.
The environmental downside the invoice’s authors cite is the {hardware}, i.e. lithium batteries, heavy metals, seashore litter, recycling-plant fires — not the flavour of the liquid.
The exemption was not written as a result of hashish vapes are safer. It was most definitely written as a result of the hashish business argued that it makes up 12% of licensed vape gross sales and that’s a tax stream the state doesn’t need to lose.
California has spent a decade constructing a authorized hashish economic system and accumulating the income that comes with it. That’s not environmental coverage.
“It’s all concerning the cash!”
Trent Sanders, La Cañada Flintridge
