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  Smoking is a serious fire risk due to an open flame. Because oxygen is highly flammable and there are pumps/outlets all throughout the hospital the open flame presents a higher probability of ignition. Vaping does not have an open flame. It does not pose a risk. 
  For those who say it can explode. A battery charging pack has a similar chance of exploding as a charging vape pen. Battery chargers are present throughout hospitals.
  Vaping isn’t good for you but I’m tired of it being lumped into the fire safety argument and it’s tolerance in a hospital environment
context: god i must be old, i remember when nurses would wheel you to the designated smoking areas when you where in the hospital. >
  
  Old here. I remember when you could smoke in waiting rooms. >
  
  i remember when kids could buy cigarettes. >
  
  I remember buying a pack from a machine for 25 cents in Virginia, it was on the green for the 3rd hole at some golf course. Summer of '70 and I was 12 and just starting. >
  
  my brothers had a half a pack a day habit since they were ten and eight. >
  
  I remember when they first made chocolate.
  I hated it! >
  
  Fire... risk... >
  
  While not a fire risk I have personally seen vape set off fire alarms. Certain detectors are set off easier. Anything that breaks the beam will set it off.
  I work in a library and 3 times we've had our fire alarm set off due to somebody vaping in the bathroom. >
  
  Realistically though, especially on a THC vape cartridge, how much vapor do you think is being exhaled from a man who is in so much pain he has to life flat nearly around the clock, and can't even sit up without help?
  This being in Kansas, it would not surprise me in the least if this was just some shitty nurse throwing a fit because she doesn't like marijuana. >
  
  I mean nobody is allowed to vape in hospitals, it’s a fucking shared space. Yeah I get it that he’s dying, but so are a bunch of other people. Bring him fucking edibles if you want to sneak weed in. >
  
  Seconding that edibles aren't universal. I can eat hundreds of mgs of THC and feel nothing. Vaping is instant and universal. >
  
  Then it’s a good thing he’s in a hospital where they have pain medicine like morphine drips. Y’all acting like his only chance at relief is weed >
  
  More like a dying man wants his comfort drug, and it is a mercy to look the other way on something so minor. >
  
  Of course it is, assuming there’s no other patient in the room or staff. Vaping doesn’t only affect the person holding the vape pen. It affects the air surrounding you. If staff had looked the other way I wouldn’t be upset, but I’m also not upset that they don’t allow smoking or vaping in hospitals. Do you not think that’s reasonable? To disallow smoking and vaping inside a hospital? >
  
  With the exception of huge douchey clouds, I think the fuss about vaping is vastly overblown. Smoking is 100 times worse. I can't say that vaping is completely harmless, but i would be surprised in most cases if the effects aren't negligible.
  I could be wrong. I haven't read the relevant peer-reviewed studies regarding the cancer rates of second hand vaping, especially with regard to nicotine vs cannabis. But it's useless to combine the terms "smoking and vaping." They are two entirely different things and ought to be treated differently.
  This is speaking from the experince of living in a world where tobacco smoke was literally everywhere,  I don't find vapes offensive at all. I don't vape myself, but I don't see the real problem. Hardly seems worth the worry. Just don't blow it right in my face. >
  
  Crazy idea, just, don't show up to court. What are they gonna do? You're gonna die anyway, fuck it >
  
  Show up to court and hit the dab pen in front of the judge >
  
  Fucking LEGENDARY >
  
  What a great use of our criminal justice system. Terminally ill guy who can't even fucking stand has to be in court in a few days. Fuck the pigs, fuck that employee, fuck the prosecutor. Fuck everyone. >
  
  Well, it's either that or the cops go after actual criminals, and that takes effort and might get dangerous...
  As long as weed is illegal cops will prioritize that because it's easiest and safest to hassle users.
  All they have to do is "smell" it, search the person, and arrest them.
  It's easier and safer than even writing traffic tickets >
  
  Can confirm. I work at a liquor store outside of a jail and courthouse so we get the homeless, tweakers and sometimes people being violent. When we call the police and they hear the issue, they take about an hour to even show up even though their station is right around the corner. Realistically they don't want to deal with it but hey, that's what they signed up for right? Meanwhile they send 7 squad cars for a jaywalker. ¬_¬ >
  
  Admittedly, when a person is facing death, the damn justice system is still screaming on it, which is to destroy ordinary people.
  In contrast, there are so many gun cases every year, and tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by shootings, and even minors have no way to stop them.
  Bullshit laws, damn management. >
  
  Can't call it the justice system when it's so damned unjust. >
  
  It is more appropriately called a "legal system" >
  
  Or a punishment system as in "Punish me daddy", lol >
  
  It’s hospital policies. No smoking of anything inside by any one. This man needs Hospice, in-home if possible. He can smoke whatever he wants at his own place and Hospice nurses/ doctors are great with pain relief. 
  I’m an Oncology nurse >
  
  What asshole brought him a vape instead of edibles/tinctures? >
  
  I work at a medical dispensary, and edibles just don’t work for some people. Individual metabolism plays a big role, and it’s possible he could only get relief this way.
  Ninja edit: He still shouldn’t have brought it in. I just wanted to point out, some people can’t get relief from something that works wonders for others. >
  
  Or edibles can be overpowering for some. If I overdo edibles I’ll quite literally trip balls (out of body experiences, bubbling body parts, colored filter on the world, everyone has heads the size of South Park characters with tiny realistic faces in the middle, then everything had faces such as trees etc). If I vape weed too hard I just think about how everyone in life is mortal and think about my family dying. >
  
  Edibles make me lie down and hate the feeling. I can vape some weed and go back to yard work. I’ll never understand weed. >
  
  It's because your liver is converting the ∆9-THC into 11-OH-THC, which is about 10x more psychoactive. Literally a completely different cannabinoid. But a lot of people (me being one of them) have fucked up livers that either converts the THC too quickly or too slowly for it to be effective, which suckssss. I wouldn't mind getting blitzed out of my gord, but alas I will never know. >
  
  That’s soo interesting. TIL! >
  
  You really cannot smoke anything in a hospital. >
  
  Oxygen tanks everywhere. >
  
  Except a vape doesn't have sparking electricity or open flame. Not saying you should smoke in a hospital but there is as much of a risk with your phone being around >
  
  Youre still in a confined space in a medical care facility where others who are also on need of medical attention reside. I wouldnt want someone lighting up a cig next to me normally, let alone in a confined space where i may already have issues breathing. >
  
  I’m 1000% pro legal and would fight for that guy’s right to ingest thc…but if my elderly grandmother was in bed next to him and the thc he’s vaping is inflaming her allergies then dude has to stop. Period. >
  
  You can’t vape in a hospital. >
  
  So just take the vape and tell them to stop. No need to call the cops. >
  
  It imposes a serious fire risk (which could end up a lot worse than this). Also, I’m almost certain that the employee would have been fired or seriously reprimanded for failing to report it to the authorities.