How prohibition shaped the cannabis industry

Darby Cox
7 min readJul 14, 2020

One of the biggest reasons for the vaping “epidemic” is the current illegality of cannabis in most of the United States [and beyond].

Vaping came to be primarily as a discrete manner to consume cannabis. Read that again. I’m saying that vaping exists solely because cannabis is a federally illegal substance, and there was a need in the market for discrete consumption. Yes, there is a…

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