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1Match Concentrates Is A Bootleg Street Brand

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1Match appears to be either completely fake, or a home-brew street brand. Information on this THC vape cartridge is extremely sketchy, and yet people keep asking about them online so we know they’re out there.

1Match carts are on the street big-time

It seems people are asking about them at least once a week.

Comments variously point out that 1Match carts are showing up in New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, so we’re guessing these float around in the east coast area. However, one of the festival shots below shows somebody with a bag with a California state flag graphic on it, so maybe they set up in California too, or that’s just a tourist.

1Match Concentrates appears to have no known seller or source

Try to actually find this “1Match” company and you’ll run out of leads really fast! Best we found is this Instagram account. Note also that there’s flyers for appearances by this 1Match outfit at various festivals.

They also post pictures of booths set up at festivals:

We see underground festivals selling bunk carts all the time

We’ve even seen whole pop-up tent stores selling multiple unregulated THC cartridge brands before. So we’re definitely in bogus cart territory here.

One dead giveaway of a street brand: inconsistent packaging

The 1Match “brand” seems to change packaging with the seasons.

That’s a total of eight different package versions. If there were a real company behind 1Match, they’d be demonstrating a lot of confusion about how their branding should look.

1Match packaging includes online links

Note this package has the Instagram channel we mention above printed on the box.

Now here’s a different site printed on another packaging variant. The site at “www.1match.us” is a dead domain currently. So much for that lead.

How can 1Match be “lab tested”?

One more aggravating detail: The back panel of the package in that last photo has some test visible on the left. The text claims their product is “guaranteed” and “lab tested.” Presumably all proof of that disappeared with the vanished domain.

Please, do not let black market brands fool you! Every single one of them now claims to be “lab tested” everywhere, and yet in the ongoing vaping lung damage crisis there are currently 2.2K people hospitalized and 47 dead. They all didn’t just slip on a banana peel.

Share your 1Match encounters, experiences, and stories…

In the comments below or in our forum.

 

Pete

Freelance author and researcher for twenty years, a career spanning two-thirds the age of the World Wide Web itself. Passionate about finding the truth and informing the public. Investigative research for the purpose of consumer awareness. Avid cannabis enthusiast and geek of many talents and interests.

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  • Love mine, got it a a bodega in Midtown when I was on Vacation. I’m in Chicago and it’s almost running out and I want another one and I can’t find them up here 😭

  • I get em and the honey palm 2g disposable. At a smoke shop here in NC. You have to ask for it with a code word its under the counter for $50. Always been good to me

  • Grabbed a match 2 gram disposable In Midtown it lasted 2 weeks and every pull was nice it got me where I needed to be. Only$55.

    • Where in Midtown? I’ve been trying to find places near to me but the areas I know of are all in the Bronx.

      • this is a joke right? if there wasn’t smoke shops then i just moved a few months ago and you can get 1 @ every inch of the place from 38th to like 55th at least

      • this is a joke right? if there wasn’t smoke shops then i just moved a few months ago and you can get 1 @ every ince of the place from 38th to like 55th at least

    • Where in Midtown? I’ve been trying to find places near to me but the areas I know of are all in the Bronx.

  • I honestly think all this negative press is false flag,they just want you to buy THEIR products.

    Smoking a match elevate Maui wowie ri g t now, my MOST trusted brand. Maybe you guys should use fairer marketing practices. Not EVERY ONE needs to be searchable online.

  • My friend put me onto a store in queens that has these for 50 a gram we both copped them. Apparently he says these are legit, saw him take a hit and he said it slapped. I still haven’t hit it because the results online have made me paranoid. I’m probably gonna bite the bullet and take one baby hit then report back. I think the hysteria of this whole vape thing is blown out of proportion. The thing that scares me is that I did have a bad cart experience once (think it was a smart art that was laced with k2) and ever since then I’ve been extremely cautious about these vapes. A shame because I used to love these things and they’re so discreet

  • Of course they are real. They would not be in business year after year if they are fake! (Da😛).
    I just bought one. It is a more eloquent slim mechanism than pictures I saw.
    I just took 2 puffs and it tastes nice! I am stoned.

  • I’ve gotten a vape that says LEMOND HAZA …
    Obviously lemon haze , that just sketchy and also the packaging albeit it is in a 2 piece hard plastic container, the actual packaging looks photo copied… I mean I’ve heard too many nightmare stories, my local vape shop gave it to me on the house… imma return it

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