







Exotic Carts, Supremes, and Brass Knuckles most of you know what these are just of the branding alone. Marijuana has come a long way from the back of a drug dealers pocket, the modernization of pot has created a new industry that was once only seen in the shadows. We live in the era of the marijuana cartridge with its discreet look, smell, and portability for consumers this product in very convenient to say the least. It's also created a ton of real world risks and challenges for those both operating and consuming in the industry legal or illegal. If it feels like your getting things from an industry that doesn't have your best intentions in mind that because your most likely correct. The reality is that not everyone, key word “everyone” has bad intentions but the truth is that they might be equally as unaware. So in this video we're gonna breaking down key detail of the black market, pesticides, and personal health dangers that these cartridges carry with them. This video is made for educational and harm reduction purposes viewer discretion is advised.





Black market transactions already carry a ton of conceivable risk for those that partake in its activities. With the explosion of cart brands in legal states, it's only further raised the hype in states that have laws against marijuana possession. With the many quote unquote real cartridges that are going around there are many more fake ones that are introduced with very similar branding design as the legal ones. The reality is by taking a trip to your local search engine, it is very easy to find sellers of empty cartridges with identical branding to the legal brands. According to an article by Amelia McDonnell-Parry a top reporter for Rolling Stone its as easy as ever. ”According to Harris, counterfeit wholesalers have flooded Instagram with photos and videos of endless stacks of empty cartridges and packaging that replicate the branding used by King Pen, Brass Knuckles and Heavy Hitters. Black market dealers who purchase the cartridges can fill them with whatever they want — pesticide-ridden distillate, heavily-cut oils, synthetic cannabis, to name a few — and consumers would have no way to tell, and little recourse even if they could” (McDonnell-Parry). So despite what you might believe about a certain connection having a legit product based on certain packaging, there's still significant risk involved and the black market drastically worsens the whole situation. But back to the cartridges fake or counterfeit product usually pose no risk to the consumer beyond their wallet. But a counterfeit substance can do much more actual damage according to a quote from Nicole Clarke.”Obviously, counterfeiting luxury products isn’t anything new—but your knockoff Louis Vuitton will never physically harm you beyond a bruised ego. A counterfeit vape pen could do serious damage. The heating element on the pen could fail to heat up adequately, producing dangerous chemicals rather than vapor. In a worst-case scenario, the cartridge could be defective and explode, or it could leak”(Nicole Clarke). To put it simply having the ability to order counterfeit cartridges and packaging in bulk similar to these legal brands allows dangerous people to push a dangerous product without consumers knowing the difference. So one simple question for you the audience member, is it worth it.





The dangers of a faulty defective dangerous product reach way farther than your drug dealers back pocket. People pass around a product filled with pure top grade bullshit in legal and illegal states. The reality is that legal brands are having a very significant problem of their own pesticides in their product. To my amazement rapper Xzibit's a part owner of the company was sued for a pesticide laced product early may of 2018. Xzibit said on his social media, "Our oil is clean." " In another post he says the product is "COMPLETELY pesticide AND contaminate FREE. Lee says he began using the brand in July 2016, and in 2017 he began experiencing fatigue, headaches, nausea, chest pains, shortness of breath, wheezing and difficulty breathing. He says he stopped using the pot in August and the symptoms went away. “According to the legal docs, obtained by TMZ, he had someone conduct an independent lab test on the product, which he says revealed detectable levels of pesticides. Lee's suit is a class action on behalf of all the folks who smoked the strain in question. He wants money and an order prohibiting Xzibit and others from marketing the product as contaminant free”(TMZ). Unfortunately the amazement continues doing some online digging a discovered a website that contains the pesticide and thc level test of these cartridges in both legal states and the ones that are sold on the streets. One popular brand both in legal states and on the streets is the King Pen Cartridge brand that failed the pesticide test containing 3 Pesticides. Brass Knuckles amazingly had originally failed the pesticide test containing five pesticides in the original cartridges. Amid the lawsuits that Brass Knuckles was facing internally it still delivered a pesticide free product later we see you Xzibits. Another popular favorite supreme carts failed the pesticide test containing seven different pesticides. Recent Brand Dank Vapes also originally failed the pesticide test containing five different pesticides only passing on its second test. Lastly and the Most shocking for me on this list was the very popular Exotic Carts that failed the pesticide test containing a staggering 13 different pesticides. Simply Despite these products advertising pesticide free right on its packaging the noise couldn't be anymore deafening.





Evidence shows that the majority of damage of these pesticides occuring in animals, plants and insects. However that doesn't leave you invincible according to an article from Sean Miller, “The acute effects of pesticides are largely unknown, but chronic pesticide exposure is linked with respiratory disease, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, birth defects, fertility and reproductive problems, and many forms of cancer”(Miller). In addition to many of these synthetic substances being very under researched and very little human based tests. From the five popular cartridge brands stated in the last section there was four that stuck out to me. Let's start with Bifenazate, this pesticide was the most common among most cart brands. This product is a insecticide and causes acute effects in animals and there is no evidence on the toxicity of it for humans. Although exposure is expected to also cause acute effects and symptoms headache, nausea, and vomiting. The next on the list is called boscalid a seed treatment and protectant that also has acute symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and headache.This pesticide has a low toxicity in animal studies and causes side effects on the liver and thyroid. Next getting into the more dangerous and shocking pesticides let's talk about myclobutanil. According to Zoey Sky from pesticide news, Prolonged or repeated exposure to myclobutanil can cause damage to the organs. “Myclobutanil is toxic to aquatic life, with long-lasting effects. Myclobutanil is highly toxic and may be fatal if inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin. The effects of contact or inhalation may be delayed.(Sky)” In Addition to that wonderful quote, ”Myclobutanil can cause severe caustic effects or burns, and manifestations might include persistent vomiting, stridor, drooling, pain with or inability to swallow, and abdominal pain. Upper airway edema, stridor, and severe bronchospasm can also develop. Eye or skin exposure can cause severe irritation and burns”. Myclobutanil is often sprayed on plants to prevent any form of fungus growing. Lastly let's talk about Permethrin, another insecticide which can rapidly harm most mammals or birds and is dangerously toxic to aquatic life and cats. According to Tim Macwelch a blogger for outdoor life, “Permethrin is a suspected carcinogen, endocrine toxicant, liver toxicant, neurotoxicant and reproductive toxicant”(Macwelch). Pesticides come in all different forms ranging from low toxicity to dangerously toxic and there is way more than I stated on this list. Shocking huh?





At the end of the day people are going to do what they want to do but I would highly suggest passing these products. You can risk going to the black market getting sold a unknown, defective, or potentially dangerous product. And amazingly enough It is found that many of the legal brands are engaging in deception with there consumers advertising products pesticide free with high amounts of thc but independent tests expose the truth. In Addition these pesticide-carrying products carry a very significant health risk that is very under researched. So many of you have to ask yourselves the question from kids to middle adults to people well over 50 how do you feel now?



