hi guys I'm Dam Hoff chief operating
officer of honey stick and Gold Line and
today we're not going to be making a new
product introduction or talking about
some vaping tips today we're actually
going to talk about some safe vaping
practices that you can practice with the
onset of this coronavirus Kovan 19 that
is a pandemic affecting the United
States today so our customer service
lines and phones and agents here at
honey stick and Gold Line a lot of
people have had a lot of questions about
vaping and what they can do to keep
their vaporizers clean or practice some
safe vaping practices in the midst of
this pandemic now as a disclaimer I am
NOT a medical professional but I do know
vaporizers and I'm simply here to tell
you how to keep your vaporizers clean
and we do know vape culture so we're
going to try to make some of the best
efforts in the midst of this period of
social distancing that you guys can can
continue to vape and just do it more
carefully more cognizant ly so that you
can you can be aware of what you can do
to keep yourself safe and healthy so
let's let's go ahead and talk about some
vape culture no vape culture there's a
lot of I've been to a lot of cannabis
Cup events and things like that and it
is puff puff past culture where
vaporizers are passed amongst groups of
people and they might not even get a
t-shirt wipe off of the mouthpiece in
between uses and in this time of social
distancing and with this coronavirus
that seems to be a very strong and
respiratory borne illness it that's just
not going to fly and a vaporizer is a
very since you put it into your mouth
you inhale and exhale onto it it is
actually a very easy way to transmit
disease let alone the time that you're
taking the vaporizer you're putting them
in your purse
you're putting them down at the register
multiple people are touching them you
don't even know where this vaporizer
will go and what things it will come in
contact with so more importantly now
than ever before is a time that you guys
need to know how to clean these
vaporizers so first of all let's talk
about the puff puff passing the vape
share culture now normally sharing is
caring
when it comes to vape and especially out
there in the cannabis community however
in this time sharing can be dangerous so
what you want to do is if you guys are
sharing vaporizers okay
don't view this as a vaporizer and a
party tool and the thing that people
take a hit off of imagine that this was
a thermometer okay and now let's say you
take your temperature now you know you
take your temperature you come in at
98.6 degrees you tap your friend on the
shoulder hey man you know what's check
your temperature they they what if it
was actually at their mom they'd be like
ill know you know and they would want to
either get a new thermometer or make
sure they took proper precautions so
that it is sterilized so you always want
to make sure that your vaporizer is
properly sterilized now there's two
things that you are actually taking the
vaporizer and you're putting it into
your mouth and the other part is that
you're inhaling and you're exhaling your
vape back on to it so not just the
vaporizer in the mouthpiece but the
whole vaporizer can be not sanitary so
we are gonna run through basically that
if you are vaping what steps you can do
to sanitize your vaporizer without
harming your vaporizer but more
importantly keeping yourself safe so
there's a few options that are available
so if you ER if you're looking at just
protecting the mouthpiece which since
you are putting it into your mouth is
probably the most essential there are in
the vape community things that are known
as
replaceable disposable mouthpiece covers
people use them as as little covers that
go over the actual mouthpiece of the
vaporizer so I think we have some of
these on our site that are sealed in
individual little silicones and what you
would do is if somebody these are things
that we use a trade shows regularly when
we have vaporizers for tests is is will
have them out on the table so before
somebody use a vaporizer they can put it
over the mouthpiece so that the
mouth-to-mouth contact will not be there
now there's large one which is more of
like a hookah style tip it's much better
because it covers a big area the
vaporizer it fits on very tight and as
you can see your mouth goes nowhere near
now this this works however if you want
to really get technical before taking a
vaporizer from somebody especially
somebody that you don't know then you
definitely want to want to clean off the
surface of it as well and for surface
cleaning you have a very nice array of
disinfectant wipes like here you have
these antibacterial wet ones that are
great that can go into your pocket if
you really want to go extreme you have
these Clorox they're antiviral
antibacterial disinfectant wipes they
work great on all these stainless steel
surfaces which most these vaporizers are
a steal they also will clean up the
glass and the mouthpiece they have Lysol
wipes saying I only had a couple because
that I could pick up because the
supermarkets are pretty dry on this kind
of disinfect and stuff right now but I'm
sure that you have some around your
house you can even take antibacterial
and put it on to you know the paper
towel and clean it up you can even use
isopropyl alcohol which is like rubbing
alcohol that you can use to clean it up
so you want to make sure before you take
a vaporizer from some
that you make sure you take the
percussion so that you do not come in
contact with whatever was on this
vaporizer and get it into your system so
you want to make sure to disinfect it
now one thing that a lot of people don't
consider and they clean the outside of
the vaporizer and even the outside of
the mouthpiece one of the key places
where you get buildup and things like
that or actually on the inside of the
mouthpiece people are putting their
tongues on them they're blowing you know
the vape smoke back into it that is like
a harbor for bacteria and viruses to be
so where things build up and if you wipe
off the outside that inside could still
be bad now here's our another vape where
you can see which is a more of a wide
bore mouthpiece that these can be
problematic even if you're not sharing
your vaporizers this is a time that you
definitely want to clean your own vape
more because you're putting it down
those mouthpieces are coming in contact
with things so you definitely want to
keep them clean now for these larger
ones several companies we don't have
them available but a lot of companies
online you can just google it
these mouthpieces are a standard
diameter size you can order these in all
different shapes sizes colors all
individually wrapped in sterile you can
just have a bunch of them so when you
get done for the day you just take it
off and throw it in the garbage if you
want to and just pop on a new one you
definitely want to clean and change
those more frequently like you can see
here with our extreme tank it's a
standard size alone this mouthpiece also
removes I can even switch it with this
sub ohm tank which you see these are all
interchangeable because the vape
industry made these a standard size for
the most part so you can take these off
you can switch them out and you can
order new ones from a variety of
different companies and just make sure
you're constantly switching your
mouthpieces another thing that you can
do
is I love the idea as in I showed you
guys in a video that I did a while ago
about cleaning your vape tank which is
more of the functionality in the
internal care for your vape tank which
is to give it an isopropyl alcohol bath
you just take a little isopropyl alcohol
you put it into a cup make sure that
it's submerged submerged and you just
drop it in there that will do a really
good job of cleaning and disinfecting it
getting all the germs and all the gunk
out of it and you just let it sit there
for a couple hours
take it out dry it off and it is good to
go now when you are cleaning the surface
of these vaporizers or cleaning the
tanks one of the questions that we got
to our emails today to our customer
service email is a lot of the medical
professionals are saying to keep your
hands clean use soap and water which is
a great suggestion because a great
cleaner
however with vaporizers you can't you
really use soap and water on them
without ruining the actual vaporizer so
we're gonna tell you to stick more with
with a damp surface cleaning products
like disinfectant wipes a lot of them do
have a high alcohol content or use
isopropyl alcohol do not just use water
because you can short out your vaporizer
there are electronic components in there
so it's not a good way to clean your
vaporizer without actually ruining your
vaporizer so stick to the damp wipes
that I that have alcohol or
antibacterial agents in them stick with
your your wet one style wipes you can
even use your hand sanitizer very
lightly onto a onto paper towels or you
can use isopropyl pretty freely on the
vaporizers I mean don't take your
vaporizer and dump it in there we don't
want the battery the internal circuitry
of the battery coming in contact with it
but in terms of rubbing the surface down
the isopropyl should be fine because
they have
operates rather quickly off of a
vaporizer so you can do that now we also
want to talk about making sure that you
the once you keep these surfaces clean
that you are doing them regularly so
even before all of us and going into flu
season I would clean off the surface of
my phone using an antibacterial wipe but
now with the onset of this pandemic and
the increased risk and you know I'm
taking my phone I'm putting it down I'm
leaving it all over the place I put it
down at the cash register I could put it
down at the store I'm putting in my
pocket putting it in my car showing
people things on it I make sure to wipe
it off at least twice a day now with an
antibacterial wipe or using hand
sanitizer and the cloth just to make
sure that I'm not carrying around
residual germs on and for surface of the
vaporizers you guys should definitely
whatever you were doing definitely
increase the frequency absolutely if you
have shared your vaporizer with a friend
absolutely if you are putting it down
places like I am and it's your daily
your daily driver you want to make sure
at the end of the day you're cleaning
the surface you're sanitizing you're
making sure you're taking care of that
mouthpiece and that those are taken care
of to make sure that you're safe because
anything that you actually put into your
mouth and you're inhaling and exhaling
on is definitely something that you want
to take seriously in this time so next
we're gonna move into something there's
more of vape more into vape culture but
now goes into common etiquette with this
pandemic going around so there's a lot
of times that you vapors a lot of people
are guilty a lot of people in my office
are guilty you know you have an awesome
vape you know whatever it is whether
it's a juice whether it's your your
favorite brew of skittles and you have
it or a monster tank it might be a honey
stick of mine on but you take that
monster rip and you blow that big cloud
out and walking down in a on Figaro and
Los Angeles I can remember all the
different cartridges that I could that I
could just smell by walking
on the street it was like a busy Friday
and everybody's outside hanging out it
was after 5:00 right before a Lakers
game it was a really cool vibe and I
must have smelled all these different
strains of cartridges however right now
and everybody is paranoid about getting
germs on them you know
don't go blowing that free vape cloud
out in the crowded areas because people
do not want to inhale what you are
exhaling even though you know people
like myself and my employees might enjoy
the smell of secondhand skittles
you know people are not going to
appreciate inhaling whatever you're
exhaling because they're scared that
they might be getting this terrible
virus this disease so try to be mindful
of that you know people are looking at
you funny if you're clearing your throat
people are very on edge right now is
safety and rightfully so so please be
cognizant that what you're inhaling what
you're exhaling you know taking these
deep hits and taking these coughs you
know they could definitely be construed
as not a vapor cough of a great rip they
could be construed construed as I have
the flu or I have this Corona thing as a
cough so we'll definitely put people on
edge in a crowd and as vapors and as a
cannabis community as a whole we
definitely want to avoid conflict so
please also be cognizant of that now
another question that we have gotten to
our sites since this virus popped up is
about cartridges and we don't really
have an answer for you know what
cartridges to get what is safe and what
is not safe all we can do is apply a
little bit of common sense to it and
tell people is you know look at the
source as to where they're trustworthy I
mean we work in our line of business and
white labeling for medical grade
extractors that have very clean and
instruct facilities and guidelines that
make cartridges you know prefilled style
510 cartridges for cannabis for medical
use in a several states and they have
very strict guidelines and they have
clean rooms and all of those things
to make sure that they are not getting
foreign or dirty materials into their
cartridges when they are filling them
they are basically made and
pharmaceutical style standard
manufacturing compliance so we believe
the purchasing cartridges and things
like that from those sources are much
more safer than purchasing them from
sources that you don't know or and just
any other company that might have popped
up in a dispensary in whatever your
state is or just any random CBD person
online is maybe do a little bit more due
diligence into how that what type of
manufacturing practices these cartridge
producers are producing under before you
make that decision because you know you
want to make sure that your cartridges
that you're putting into your mouth and
vape that you're putting into your lungs
are made in the most sanitary way that
you can so we don't really have an
answer for you because we don't know but
from a we've seen and the different
clientele we've interacted with we know
that a lot of these big medical
producers these big ISO and GMP
producers go the extra mile to make sure
that they're making good clean products
for people of vape under good practices
versus other sources so make sure that
you do your research there maybe take an
extra step as you normally would
before you vape and if this was a
question that you had you know hopefully
that helps you what also comes in you
vapes
so you pick up a new vape from a box I
mean these things are being shipped
around the country and all these things
they're packaged differently people
touch them is before you get it now make
sure that when you take it out of the
box what I would do is just you know it
doesn't take you much work at all take
it use one of these sanitary wipes or
well these little disinfectant wipes and
just wipe the surface off before you
bring it into yourself and you call it
yours
and it is now in your safe space and you
are putting it you know into your mouth
you're inhaling exhaling off of it just
to be safe than sorry
I know the post office our UPS reps and
FedEx reps and people who ship out for
us are saying they're taking extra
precaution
to handle boxes and things like that
properly but whenever you're opening and
touching things that came out of mail a
lot of people touched to take that extra
step and before you bring it in and
users on your own give it a good wipe
down and rest assured that at least that
part of your daily function and your
routine is at least gonna be disinfected
so guys I hope that that answers a lot
of questions that we have gotten to our
online or phone portals I hope this
video can be helpful for you guys
definitely in the time was a country and
as people as a community industry we
need to pull together hunker down and
just try to be as sanitary as we can and
be as courteous to each other as we can
also so if you guys have any questions
for us our phone lines are open we're
where our emails are open you know
supportive a punny stay calm we'll try
to answer the questions as best as you
can and we'll be here to try to serve
you as best as we can with your VAP
needs I'm Dan HOF make sure to stay safe
stay healthy most of all when you're
sanitary vaping make sure to do it
responsibly thanks guys
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