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Pot Shops Essential, but Vape Shops Closed? That Science is Upside Down, Experts Say

by Chelsea Boyd
April 23, 2020
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issues: Harm Reduction, Tobacco Harm Reduction
originally published in Inside Sources

Chelsea Boyd, a harm reduction research associate at the R Street Institute, believes keeping vape shops open is a no-brainer.

“I think the need to keep vape shops open as ‘essential businesses’ is important, since cigarettes are easily accessible at other essential businesses, whereas vapor products likely are not,” Boyd told InsideSources.

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