The MFJS Reporter — Winter 2020 M-W

Seen as a safer alternative than cigarettes, highschool and college age kids around the globe are increasingly using vape products. Vape pens can include nicotine and THC having different effects depending on what it contains. A study found that the use of vaping products, or e-cigarettes, to vape marijuana as well as nicotine, doubled between 2017 and 2018 (Wolf). Due to it’s convenient nature having no smell, different flavored pods and disposable pods, products such as JUUL became especially trendy. 

University of Denver student, Parker Smith, started using vape products in 2016. “I don’t remember having a specific reason for using them other than how popular they were.”