So, was Jordan Mason opposing pot, before he was promoting putting it in the South Dakota Constitution??

Pat Powers

Here’s a couple of interesting press items from out by way of West River involving Rapid City based consultant Jordan Mason:

The Dakota Vaping Association is a trade organization that includes local vaping businesses and supporters of the industry. They say their goal is to promote alternatives to tobacco use and ensure the quality of products.

Last week, illegal THC-laced cartridges were seized in Minneapolis and Jordan Mason from the DVA says this incident shows why this newer industry needs more regulation.

Read it here.

All those illegal pot cartridges are to blame for the problems with vaping, according to Jordan Mason of the Dakota Vaping Association. So what’s a person to do?

Apparently cash in on both vaping AND pot, as Jordan pushes himself out there as the face of the pot movement as well:

I’m not sure how many of his clients out in Rapid agree with his “thumbs up” assessment on working to put recreational pot in the South Dakota Constitution.

(At least for his sake, I hope it was a big check.)

 

16 thoughts on “So, was Jordan Mason opposing pot, before he was promoting putting it in the South Dakota Constitution??”

  3. Jordan Mason is a mercenary he’ll be for anything that pays his way he can be sold to the highest better

  5. You guys were prolly cheering when tainted alcohol was killing people during prohibition. The drug war is creating unregulated black markets that push counterfeit products. Legalization and regulation will insure people are receiving quality products. History has proven this time and time again.

    1. “Prolly” demonstrates right there where you’re priorities were such as getting high off of weed rather than an education. That education would of helped you get the facts straight too. The black market thrives in legalized, normalized and commercialized marijuana states.

  6. There are those that do and those that talk about those that do.

    I know who I am, I know what I stand for, and I’m proud of the work I do. I fight for freedom, liberty and basic human rights against a burgeoning bureaucracy that is striping our freedoms away wholesale everyday.

    John 8:7

  8. Who the hell is Jordan Mason? Also is it possible he was referring to only THC-specific vape-specific products, as it is black market vape products that are hospitalizing people, rather than regular vape or regular marijuana? Maybe if we legalized it we could regulate it easier? I’m no progressive but hell, Republicans know not a damn thing about vape or THC but what they hear from the bought-and-paid for talking heads down at FOX.

    1. False! Despite the pot pushers best attempts to use the Vape epidemic and crises as a reason to legalize they fail big time! There have been Vape deaths in states that legalized including Oregon where the high potency THC cartridges were legal and regulated and purchased from a legal and regulated pot shop. It is not uncommon for those few states that legalized and especially Oregon to have chronic issues with their legal and regulated marijuana flower that tested high in mold, toxic chemicals and heavy metals. Some states like Nevada have had issues where the MJ industry altered the test results so that their product would pass and they could sell even though it was toxic. All driven by greed with numerous problems, claims and promises that turned out to be false.

      1. I hadn’t seen commercial vaping cartridges containing THC until I was in the Twin Cities last week.

        To the best of my knowledge, there were no reports of illness and deaths directly attributed to vaping, until products (legal, or “bootlegged”) containing THC oil became available.

        At this point, the evidence indicates that commercial vaping products that do NOT contain THC oils are far safer than smoking tobacco. And, contemporary research shows vaping is more effective as a quitting aid than other nicotine products approved as smoking-cessation treatments..

        One study, carried out by Peter Hajek, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine’s Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London, found that e-cigarettes were almost twice as effective as nicotine replacement products such as patches. A year after the start of the study, which was published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine, 18 per cent of the e-cigarette group had quit smoking, compared to 10 per cent of the nicotine replacement group.
        https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1808779

        1. William this Op Ed was in the Star Tribune this morning.

          Shared from the 11/6/2019 Star Tribune eEdition
          Vaping conversation needs to get real on marijuana
          Some would have you believe that the drug is benign. At the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, we know better.
          By MARK MISHEK

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          BRITTAINY NEWMAN • New York Times A nicotine vaper in New York. A growing percentage of users also use vaping devices to ingest marijuana, now accounting for a third of overall sales in the legal cannabis market.

          If kids are vaping (they are), and the vapes include marijuana (they often do), inconsistencies in the public discourse about the impact of legalization and our collective response to the vaping crisis must end (“Vaping reignites fight over legal pot,” front page, Oct. 31).

          [SNIP]

          (for gosh’s sakes, post a link, not the entire article – the editor)

          1. I agree that legalization of marijuana and the ingestion of THC via vaping, is the root of the current “crisis”.

            That said, vaping as a harm reduction / smoking cessation method is a valuable tool is reducing smoking related disease.

            A distinction between vaping THC oil and commercial products containing nicotine must be made to avoid exacerbating one health risk in reducing another.

            There was no public health alarm over vaping until they became a method of THC ingestion.

            I believe it best to prohibit the sale of THC oil based vaping liquids, rather than attempt to prohibit the method of ingestion. There will always be an illegal market for THC based products, but laws should be focused on those engaged in criminal activity, rather than those attempting to reduce or stop tobacco use.

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