Will FDA's New E-Cig Rules Affect Marijuana Vape Pens?
On Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized a long-anticipated rule regulating e-cigarettes and tobacco vaporization devices, including vape pens.
The 499-page document left many in the cannabis industry scrambling to understand the new rule’s potential impact on vape devices intended for consumption of marijuana and its extracts, instead of for nicotine.
The key question is whether products in the rapidly growing cannabis vape industry can be defined as “tobacco products.”
The new rule gives FDA the power to regulate any devices “intended or reasonably expected…to be used with or for the human consumption of a tobacco product.” Such products and their components will have to undergo a lengthy and costly testing, review and approval process.
The FDA estimates the reviews will take an average of 1,713 hours to complete, which vape industry advocates say could cost companies $1 million for each device or component that an application must be filed...
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