Salt Lake's Angel Dust Juices
Utah State Representative Paul Ray has claimed that 84% of eliquids tested contained illegal drugs, leaving many wondering if he’d taken substances himself
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by Dave Cross
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At the presentation, Paul Ray said he wanted to ban all vaping products and announced that he would be writing legislation to that effect. “If I can ban the entire product, I will,” he said. “An outright ban on everything is what I will look for in the session.”
Oddly, Ray is fine with closed pod systems like JUULs and they would remain exempt from his nonsensical ban.
Ray got people to buy 12 juice bottles from brick and mortar stores then sent them to Beechtree Diagnostics Lab for testing. The company reported back to him that 10 of the bottles were adulterated with illegal drugs.
Results:
- Brand 1: Clear
- Brand 2: Opioids, Oxy
- Brand 3: Opioids
- Brand 4: Opioids
- Brand 5: Opioids, Oxy, PCP, Barbiturates
- Brand 6: Opioids
- Brand 7: Opioids
- Brand 8: THC, CBD
- Brand 9: PCP
- Brand 10: CBD
- Brand 11: Clear
- Brand 12: Opioids, Oxy,
So, 84% of juice bottles in Salt Lake contain drugs?
Not quite.
Beechtree were quick to distance themselves from their own findings and Ray’s announcement. “This is not to be taken as evidence, I think [he] didn’t share enough of the testing parameters to truly validate,” commented the company’s President Michael Murano.
The test used point-of-care strips; a process usually used to test urine samples – not eliquids. “We used a presumptive testing method that is not particularly accurate. The accurate test isn’t available now,” Murano added.
What has Utah State Representative Paul Ray been smoking?
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Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
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