Armed guards, secret location: Inside an illegal marijuana bazaar publicized on Instagram.
and vitamin E acetate, a cutting agent identified by the CDC as one of the likely culprits in the outbreak.
“With Instagram, a lot of these companies can go from zero to hero in 30 days,” said Avis Bulbulyan, CEO of Siva Enterprises, a cannabis consulting firm, and a member of California’s Cannabis Advisory Committee.Seeking to complete a sale, NBC News contacted about a dozen different dealers advertising Dank Vapes and ultimately transferred hundreds of dollars to three of them using a popular payment app.
Newton said Instagram uses special technology to help identify and remove vaping content banned from the platform. “That actually finds 95 percent of the content before it’s even reported to us,” she said. Mackey and other experts conceded that Instagram’s efforts to root out illicit sales are complicated by the methods taken by rogue sellers to elude detection.
Recreational marijuana is legal in California but only licensed dealers are permitted to sell it. Many of the sellers at the underground operation were peddling bootleg vape cartridges, including Dank Vapes.
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