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Joana Scopel

Appeals Court Judge Overturns Pennsylvania's Controversial Vape Recall: Cannabis Companies Cheer, Health Dept. Appeals

A Commonwealth Court judge ruled to allow Pennsylvania medical marijuana companies to resume selling vapes, taken off the market upon request of the Department Of Health last February.

In his 27-page opinion, Commonwealth Court Judge Michael J. Wojcik wrote that state regulators “failed to present any evidence to the court of potential harm to medical marijuana patients due to the recalled products, or more specifically due to the addition of terpenes to these products." Terpenes are natural chemicals taken from other plants and fruits that are used to restore flavors and aromas that the concentrate extraction process destroys.

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