Will Vaping’s Health Concerns Help Or Hurt NY’s Marijuana Legalization Efforts?
In recent months, rising numbers of vaping-related pulmonary illnesses and deaths across the country have raised alarm bells about a method of consuming marijuana and tobacco that was once assumed to be safer than smoking. Efforts to understand the root causes of these medical cases—146 in New York, as of October 22—are ongoing. The public health concern around vaping is mounting just as state politicians are gearing up to try to accomplish in 2020 what they couldn’t in 2019: Passing legislation to fully legalize marijuana for those over 21.