(Richard Vogel | AP) A shopkeeper shows his selection of refillable cannabis vape cartridges being sold at a wholesale shop in downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 28, 2019. A short walk from police headquarters in the heart of downtown, a cluster of bustling shops are openly selling packaging and hardware that can be used to produce counterfeit, and potentially dangerous, marijuana vapes that have infected California's cannabis market and possibly sickened dozens of people.
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