PeterMacintosh
Active Member
Here's a vote for the vaporizer. I never really smoked heavily but I bartered some IT work with a head shop for a VaporBrothers ($199) as I could never really justify spending that sort of change on something to smoke bud. I was dating a girl who had bad asthma, so it was a win-win.
Maybe a Volcano does a better job, but I've never used it. Presentation is vital to cooking, and smoking is no different: Smoking out of a huge plastic bag is just unappealing to me. Same reason I won't ever be strapping on a gas-mask to get baked
Nothing comes close in terms of efficiency. The vapors go straight to your head, and smoke is simply more "debilitating" for lack of a better word. However, that's not to say that I don't enjoy a good spliff or blunt (my second-favorite but most wasteful way to smoke).
I have a fine vaporizer, and a single bowl, which will do the job very well (two is almost too much) consists of no greater than a third of a gram, by my best estimate. What's left over isn't bad for mixing with spliffs, etc. One great thing about it is that you can really taste the ganj.
And, of course, there are the painfully obvious benefits:
1. You will not smell like bud
2. Your apartment will not smell like bud*
3. It's the healthiest way to inhale
And one not-so-obvious one: Because my vaporizer is "passive" in nature, meaning that the heat passes over the buds as you breath in, it can be left turned on and enjoyed selectively. Very few, if any, vapors are wasted in this case. The best analogy that I can come up with for smokers would be if your pipe were to have a pilot light over the bowl. But even in that case, fuel would need to be provided and smoke would undoubtedly be wasted by an unattended, recently smoked bowl. This is not the case for passive vaporizers.
My only complaint is that the "bowl" (or whatever the proper terminology may be in this case) can be a pain to empty. To fix that, I have a $5 "cleaning pick" on the way from the manufacturer right now.
* Back in college, my roommates and I were vaporizing some buds in our dorm when we were rudely interrupted by the building's director (HR) for some arbitrary reason. Although we were on another planet, all we had to do was put the vaporizer under my bed to avoid some serious, unexpected trouble.
Maybe a Volcano does a better job, but I've never used it. Presentation is vital to cooking, and smoking is no different: Smoking out of a huge plastic bag is just unappealing to me. Same reason I won't ever be strapping on a gas-mask to get baked
Nothing comes close in terms of efficiency. The vapors go straight to your head, and smoke is simply more "debilitating" for lack of a better word. However, that's not to say that I don't enjoy a good spliff or blunt (my second-favorite but most wasteful way to smoke).
I have a fine vaporizer, and a single bowl, which will do the job very well (two is almost too much) consists of no greater than a third of a gram, by my best estimate. What's left over isn't bad for mixing with spliffs, etc. One great thing about it is that you can really taste the ganj.
And, of course, there are the painfully obvious benefits:
1. You will not smell like bud
2. Your apartment will not smell like bud*
3. It's the healthiest way to inhale
And one not-so-obvious one: Because my vaporizer is "passive" in nature, meaning that the heat passes over the buds as you breath in, it can be left turned on and enjoyed selectively. Very few, if any, vapors are wasted in this case. The best analogy that I can come up with for smokers would be if your pipe were to have a pilot light over the bowl. But even in that case, fuel would need to be provided and smoke would undoubtedly be wasted by an unattended, recently smoked bowl. This is not the case for passive vaporizers.
My only complaint is that the "bowl" (or whatever the proper terminology may be in this case) can be a pain to empty. To fix that, I have a $5 "cleaning pick" on the way from the manufacturer right now.
* Back in college, my roommates and I were vaporizing some buds in our dorm when we were rudely interrupted by the building's director (HR) for some arbitrary reason. Although we were on another planet, all we had to do was put the vaporizer under my bed to avoid some serious, unexpected trouble.
