Police in Gloucester Township, New Jersey, have found vaping pens containing extremely potent marijuana oil, and warn that harder drugs are also making their way into e-cigarettes.
“One of the major problems is that when somebody smokes marijuana you can usually smell that from far away. But with these vaping pens you smell nothing but what the flavor is,” said Barton. “And they make the flavors that are eye-catching to children: birthday cake, wedding cake, mango, peach, strawberry, things that they would want to try.”
Police said vaping pens are a danger because kids in middle and high school are using them, and school officials say they are hard to detect.
Barton said on the West Coast, people are using vaping pens for more dangerous and addictive substances.
“They’re saying that people are using these vape pens now for heroin, cocaine. We haven’t caught that here in New Jersey, or in Gloucester Township, but they’re saying [on the] West Coast, that it’s working its way over,” Barton told Fox 29.
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