Using the adulterated marijuana cartridges as a way to push anti-vaping campaigns was the same sort of disingenuous technique use to get people to not wear masks to save them for health care professionals at the beginning of the COVID epidemic. The authorities think the public are too stupid to understand or react to facts, so they lie to them and it ends up backfiring.
Uhm. It ended up backfiring in the US. Here in the Netherlands they said the same thing about masks (and made it pretty clear why this was said) and it ended up being just fine. It seems abundantly clear that your authorities simply had no such plan in mind.
