Gilbert's lawyers said that neither they nor their client would comment on the case at this time. Terry Fahn, a spokesperson for JustCBD, told CR that the company does not sell products in the U.S. The risks of vaping have garnered a lot of attention since last August, after the Centers for Disease Control and Terra Pro Gummies Prevention linked the products to a mysterious outbreak of more than 2,600 lung illnesses so serious that people had to be admitted to the hospital. Sixty people have died. The CDC says several thousand more people have probably been admitted to emergency rooms with complaints related to vaping. The CDC traced many of the hospitalizations back to vitamin E acetate, used to dilute oils used in vaping. The vast majority of the illnesses involved products that contained nicotine or THC, especially those purchased illicitly, says Brian King, Ph.D., chief science officer with the CDC. After initially warning consumers to avoid all vaping products, Terra Pro Gummies on Jan. 17 the agency limited that advice to THC vape pens, especially those obtained from family, friends, online, and illicit dealers─because growing research found "a strong link between these products and the lung injuries," King says.

But in at least 26 of the cases, people-like Gilbert-were hospitalized after they reported vaping only CBD, and more people probably went to the ER. In addition, many doctors, Terra Pro Gummies scientists, government officials, and even industry representatives remain concerned about vaping, especially CBD, for several reasons. For one thing, beyond the dangers of vitamin E acetate, little is known about the long-term effect of inhaling several other chemicals often found in vaping oils, says Michelle Peace, Ph.D., a toxicologist and Terra Pro associate professor in the department of forensic science at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond who has studied and tested vaping oils. For another, the devices themselves, when heated, can cause a chemical reaction in the vapor, posing further risk to the lungs-one reason the American Lung Association cautions people away from all vaping devices, says Erika Sward, national assistant vice president for advocacy at the association, which has long urged people to not vape at all.

Finally, there is little regulatory oversight of CBD in general and vaping it in particular. The FDA-which oversees tobacco products, including vaping ones-has not yet determined how it should regulate CBD vaping products. The CBD industry has called for more FDA oversight, says Jonathan Miller, general counsel for the U.S. Hemp Roundtable, Terra Pro Gummies which represents CBD manufacturers and funds the industry's certifying group, called the U.S. Hemp Authority. While the FDA provides some guidance on dietary supplements, foods, and cosmetics, it does not offer similar oversight of vaping products, Terra Pro Gummies he says. That lack of regulation on vaping prevents the U.S. Hemp Authority from certifying CBD vape oils, as it does for CBD topicals, tinctures, and edibles.