Dank Vapes has a logo. You can buy Dank Vapes T-shirts. Sales of Dank Vapes products can be easily spotted on Twitter or Instagram or Medium. Inverse has reached out to government agencies, accounts claiming to sell Dank Vapes, cannabis labs, and members of the cannabis industry.
They all seem to tell a similar story — that Dank Vapes may be fake. It’s a black-market “brand” that has inspired loyalty online but comes with serious risks.
Some of the recent news stories read like Onion headlines, too. For instance, cops found weed cartridges in Indiana that resembled kids cereal boxes. One New Jersey case cited a teenager who stabbed a man over a cannabis-cartridge deal gone wrong. Who stabs someone over weed these days?
2. Products other than flower are gaining market share.
Like many trends that spread from California eastward, vaping in 2018 outpaced flower as the most popular method of consumption in California. Similarly, people curious to try marijuana but unwilling to smoke it are turning to edibles. Expect one of the most significant cannabis industry trends to be the continued shift away from flower and towards other methods of consumption.
Vaping. My first Equality Ball was in 2005, way back in the Steven Goldstein era. Back then I was the only one with the temerity to step outside and smoke a joint. Alone. It was has hard to find a coconspirator to PuffPuffPass it to. Those days are over. Everyone’s doing it. I’m no longer the only one holding. It’s not technically legal to share cannabis in NJ, even with fellow medical marijuana cardholders. Some people share, some people don’t.