Edmonton Police Warns Students are Using E-cigarettes to Get High

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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According to a warning issued by Edmonton Police, parents in Alberta and across the country are cautioned to be aware of the fact that several students at local high schools have been caught using e-cigarettes to get high. Battery-powered electronic cigarettes are used to heat liquid flavour cartridges, often called “juice,” to produce a vapour that resembles smoke. However, police has found that students are replacing the typical “juice” with marijuana oil.

According to the police, it’s hard for school staff and police officers to catch them while doing it because the oil in e-cigarettes does not emit the typical marijuana odour and hence they are unaware of what students are “vaping.” Police have already caught five students using marijuana oil in e-cigarettes over the last two weeks. However, Sgt. Kelly Rosnau of the Edmonton Police Service fears there are many more students who are doing it undetected because “it’s prevalent, it’s everywhere. Kids are jumping on this pretty quickly,”

Rosnau, of the Edmonton Police School Resource Officer (SRO) Unit, alleged that school staffers have seen it happening “in talking with teachers, with SROs, they’re now realizing that in the past they saw these devices and really were unaware of what they were or what they were being used for.” Rosnau highlighted that marijuana oil is much more potent than the marijuana contained in joints and so “the primary concern is the health of the youth.” He added that “Marijuana oil may contain a content of THC as high as 90 per cent compared to the 10 to 20 per cent THC levels typically found in marijuana or joints.”