Via social media, the Cali vape company Platinum began receiving messages of complaint. “‘Hey, I bought this cartridge [and] it doesn’t taste right.’ ‘This isn’t a Platinum vape.’ ‘What are you guys doing?’”
Those messages were the start of the manufacturer and distributor’s fight against fakes being distributed in Michigan.
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- Platinum EO George Sadler hired a couple of employees to check stores and turn them in to law enforcement. Reportedly, Sadler says bootleggers were making “hundreds of thousands of cartridges a month.”