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Sauce Extracts, Banks Extracts, and Cash Carts Are Black Market Carts

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Spinning the wheel of black market carts today, we landed on two apparently linked black market brands of THC carts. One is “Sauce Extracts” which has the Google-unfriendly habit of spelling it with a shift-4 dollar sign: “$auce Extracts.” Another cart that comes up in the same neighborhood is “Banks Extracts,” which is also spelled with the shift-4 “Bank$ Extracts.” Both of them seem to be related to “Ca$h Carts” – you know the drill on the spelling by now.

Sauce and Banks Extracts and Cash Carts are all bogus

We see people asking about these on Reddit a few times:

That second one is asking about a delivery service in Washington D.C. The US capitol is not covered in our state cannabis license directory, so we’ll address this here: Because of D.C.’s special designation within the government, it is legal for recreational and medical uses, but illegal to sell

. Possession is still illegal under federal law. Delivery services operate here in a legal gray area – a service may give away the cannabis for a “suggested donation” or toss it in “free” with another purchase of a non-contraband item.

We found one delivery service peddling Sauce. So there it is in California too. As always, need we mention that California law forbids “using cartoons, images popularly used toadvertise to children” in vape packaging anyway. If it has cartoons, candy, comics, anything kid-appealing on the packaging, it’s illegal, before we even need to look for a license.

 

$auce Extracts, Bank$ Extracts, Ca$h Carts – all related?

There’s a Sauce account on Instagram warning us “This is the only real account. Beware of scammers!” We love it when this happens. For every black market brand there’s always five guys screaming that they’re the only real one.

There’s also a Banks account on Instagram. Now notice that they include some shots of $auce vape carts, some “Sauce” branded nug bags, and yet a third brand called “Cash Carts.” Sometimes spelled with a dollar sign as well, “Ca$h Carts,” they pop up in the same channels.

We’re hazarding a guess that Ca$h Carts, Bank$ Extracts, and $auce Extracts are all in a family of variations that will go on mutating through Chinese package-printing infinity.

And here come some meaningless lab tests

We’re seeing this all the time for black market brands now. Their Instagram will post a couple pages of lab-like results with some vague meaning attached. This time, the channel posts lab results for Moon Rocks nugs

but just to prove potency, but you’ll notice it’s the cropped fractions of two pages which conveniently leave off whose sample it is, and also the QR code is too fuzzy for a scanner to actually use.

The other lab page is for a Fruity Pebbles cart. Well, we are trying that sample ID# there, but it doesn’t seem to be valid. We’re also trying to track down this “Pluto Brands” which has no trademark in the US, EU, or CA. Since Cannalysis Labs (the named lab on the test page) operates out of Santa Ana, California, we also checked for a license in California, but none was found for any company with “Pluto” in its name.

We’re going to call this trail cold for the meantime

In any case, the lab test is still meaningless even if it is legit, since an unregulated brand can intentionally make a clean sample just for the test. We already have the word of the California DPH that there is no way a cart called “Fruity Pebbles” with Fred Flintstone on it can be licensed in California, so a clean test on one cart means squat, it doesn’t matter if it’s unicorn tears.

UPDATE 5/22/20: Variation on “Sauce” spotted

On of our writters spotted a variant of the “Sauce brand name in the Chicago area, Illinois:

This may or may not be related to our main lineage of black market carts here. However, we found this clue at another online delivery:

That was from Orange County, California. So we see the same box art, but the same “$auce” stylization as our main cart family here. As we’ve noted before, black market cartridge packaging printers tend to mingle together and borrow hybrid branding from each other. Anything they think will sell will get printed on the next batch. Since they so freely rip off legitimate oil brands with counterfeits, it stands to reason that they’d rip off each other too. There are several more variants on “sauce” out there; it’s a popular term.

Readers, share your thoughts!

Anybody out there have more information on $auce Extracts, Bank$ Extracts, or Ca$h Carts? Have we worn out the $-for-S substitution bit, or is it still just that funny? Give us a honk in the comments or 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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  • There’s a rise in “Revenge Sauce” carts.
    They have stickers and BID #’s
    But I can’t seem to verify them…

  • Have u ever heard of a brand called revenge sauce carts. Are they real I can't find any info any where on thrm

  • They fake I live in cali, not gunna lie but they did good with packaging. Asked around for test results and they said that we’re certified and that was all. That goes to prove that they ain’t legit they got nothin to show

  • The orange packed sauce carts, and ceramic disposable pens are legit. In your last paragraph, before you ask the reader’s thoughts, your voice comes off as desperate. As if you’re trying to fabricate proof that this brand is not legit, with just your words. You can not compare this sauce cart to dank capes, because they’re not on the same level. It would be like putting a high caliber NFL team, against your everyday peewee league. Your article sounds more like slander than anything else and if anything, makes me question the legitimacy of your sources. I understand making individuals aware of the potential harmful toxins in street carts, but you’re not proving your point by putting blame on an up and coming brand. They are legit, they work hard, and are there to give people what they want, not hurt them. Thank you.

    • Sir, at the end of the day, we are a review website reviewing products from the consumer's point of view. If we wanted to make up something to be nasty, we could just say "this cart tastes like garbage, don't vape it." We'd be 100% within our rights to do so, as any consumer product review site would be. That's how the First Amendment works.

      But if you're here to complain that we're unfairly maligning a "legit" brand, I already prepared a response to this very common complaint:
      https://forum.dabconnection.com/forum/cartridges/849-if-we-get-your-brand-mistaken-for-fake-it-s-your-own-damn-fault

    • Thanks for commenting! We just compare the products to what is out there. Sauce may make good products, but legit would be something that is a registered cannabis business that does non-R&D testing. If you have their license number and info please post it, but we could not find it.

  • Did you find out more about the legitimacy of this brand? There are several floating around my area.. tried to warn people of its black market connection but have been shown Cannalysis lab reports (which were fabricated) as a defense. Wondering if you had any hard evidence I could present to them to prove they are, in fact, illegitimate.

    Thanks so much!

    • Couldn't find much more on it. Appears to be some type of real brand, but not registered. I would definitely prefer a legit cart from a legit shop, but this one might be better than something like Dank Vapes, still better to avoid though and we never know.

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