SEN. Robin Padilla has filed a proposed measure seeking to provide stricter regulations for vape products to ensure that “no vapor products shall contain HHC (hexahydrocannabinol) regardless of its quantity.”
Senate Bill No. 2729 seeks to amend RA 11900 or the Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act enacted in 2021 primarily to regulate the importation, sale, packaging, distribution, use, and communication of vaporized nicotine and non-nicotine products and novel tobacco products.
“While support groups hailed the passage of this law to provide Filipino smokers access to regulated less harmful alternatives, among the latest products of the evolving global technology is the new type of vaping through the so-called hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) vape,” Padilla said in the bill’s explanatory note.
Padilla said manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers, and consumers of HHC vapes shall be punished based on penalties under RA 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
