Stoney my doc asked me to find info on vapes for his other patients, here's some thing that might help:
An Herbal Vaporizer is considered a tobacco vaporizer due to not producing enough heat to correctly vaporize medical marijuana, weed, cannabis, pot, ganja, sensimilla, reefer, or whatever you would like to refer marijuana as. A company selling devices such as these is Vapir Vaporizers. Vapir only sells tobacco vaporizers due to their plastic chassis not having the capabilities to correctly vaporize marijuana. If the heating element was specifically designed to run more wattage it would warp the plastic and produce non visible toxic vapors. Vaporizers that are meant for tobacco use will be allocated in the tobacco vaporizers section and vaporizers meant for marijuana will be placed in the marijuana vaporizers section. Click the navigation in the right to navigate through our vaporizers reviewed.
Vaporization is a technique for avoiding irritating respiratory toxins in marijuana smoke by heating the vegatable matter to a temperature where the psychoactive ingredients evaporate without causing combustion. Laboratory studies by California NORML and MAPS have found that vaporizers can efficiently deliver cannabinoids while eliminating or drastically reducing other smoke toxins.
Like tobacco, marijuana smoke contains toxins that are known to be hazardous to the respiratory system. Among them are the highly carcinogenic polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, a prime suspect in cigarette-related cancers. These toxins are essentially a byproduct of combustion, separate from the pharmaceutically active components of marijuana, known as cannabinoids, which include THC. Although there is no proof that marijuana smoking causes cancer, chronic pot smokers have been shown to suffer an elevated risk of bronchitis and respiratory infections. Respiratory disease due to smoking may therefore rightly be regarded as the primary physiological hazard of marijuana.
Cannabis vaporizers are designed to let users inhale active cannabinoids while avoiding harmful smoke toxins. They do so by heating cannabis to a temperature of 180 - 200° C (356° - 392° F), just below the point of combustion where smoke is produced. At this point, THC and other medically active cannabinoids are emitted with little or none of the carcinogenic tars and noxious gases found in smoke. Many medical marijuana patients who find smoked marijuana highly irritating report effective relief inhaling through vaporizers. Users who are concerned about the respiratory hazards of smoking are strongly advised to use vaporizers. Alternative devices, such as waterpipes, have been shown to be ineffective at reducing the tars in marijuana smoke (MAPS).
Medical Marijuana Vaporizers
Vaporizers capable of vaporizing Medical Marijuana, ranked in order by efficiency:
#1 Vapezilla 2004 Cannabis Cup Winner Best Product Award
#2 Valloon Volcano Generic
#3 Volcano Vaporizer 2003 Cannabis Cup Winner Best Product Award
#4 Vapor Brothers Whip Vaporizer
#5 BC Glass Dome Vaporizer
Vapezilla Vaporizer
Introduced at the 2004 High Times Cannabis Cup by Wicked Roots. Placed 2nd for Best Herbal Marijuana Vaporizer. We were at the Cannabis Cup this year and sampled this vaporizer which is not available to the public as of 2/02/05. This vaporizer is capable of producing the tiniest differences in flavors. Simply this vaporizer lets you know what your thc taste like without the leaf, and it is simply amazing. This vaporizer will put very high expectations on other herbal vaporizer manufacturers. The taste when compared to the Volcano is emphasized about 10 times. The inhale is very smooth and when you exhale you are greeted with a tingle in the nasal passage that is full of flavor. Yes some will argue that the Volcano can accomplish this feat also but did you read what we said earlier "10 X more flavor". The taste will leave anyone first experiencing this device in shock. The Wicked Roots slogan is "Some things are meant to be perfect... Wicked Roots creates them... Which is exactly how it taste, perfected.
Valloon Vaporizer
The Valloon is a heat gun glass vaporizer extension for the Steinel or Milwaukee Heat Guns to vaporize herb or herbal marijuana. What they do is convert the nozzle of a heat gun over to there own fitting, that way they can slide another glass adapter, which holds the contents(marijuana, weed, cannabis, or tobacco holder) in place of the heat source. This technique is a duplicate of the Volcano and is indeed a better alternative than the Volcano itself. Maybe that is the reason why Volcanos are now selling at Vapir? These systems are based off of bags which dilutes the flavor as it sits in the bag filling so are not as efficient as the Vapezilla our reference vaporizer. The difference is all in the flavor and the buzz is similar, the Vapezilla being the strongest due to efficiency and more instant in buzz factor.
Vriptech Vaporizers
Volcano Vaporizer
The Volcano Vaporizer is the originator of the balloon style vaporization technique. This vaporizer won the 2003 16th High Times Magazine Best Product Cannabis Cup. The price was relatively high and the time was right since there was no competitors except for SweetLeaf Grinders which won 2 years in a row. The Valloon from Vriptech soon replaced the Volcano due to pricing. Also dilution of flavor comes into play, and makes bag type vaporizers not as efficient. An example would be a gravity bong vs a small pipe. The gravity bong has more air volume to mix with so it gives off a more diluted flavor vs one inhaling through a pipe, The vapors being directly inhaled will taste sharper and more full.
2003 High Times Cannabis Cup Best Vaporizer
Vapor Brothers Vaporizer
This Herbal Vaporizer retails for about $150 online. The vaporizer is a passive type vaporizer. Passive meaning there is no air to move the heat, so the longer you sit the hotter it gets. That alone will cause consistency problems. This vaporizer taste alot better than glass dome type vaporizers. It houses an aluminum heating element which is not good for your lungs. But than again the Volcano does also and people still buy them? Oh well, times will change in the long term as people recognize these problems and fix them. There is also a blue Christmas light inside the Vapor Brothers that should be unscrewed and removed with the power cord off before using. Failure to remove light will causes the paint to slowly be inhaled. You can witness this by looking at the heating element metal screen. You will notice a light blue coloration on the screen which is surely not healthy for you.
Ranked #4
BC Vaporizer
The BC is the originator of the Dome Glass Vaporizer. There are many duplicates of this Vaporizer due to it being the first vaporizer on the market to go mainstream. This is the better dome style vaporizer. Other models fall behind as they are not the originators. This style of smoking is not as efficient but none the less it is better than all other Glass Dome vaporizers and also better than the Vapir line of vaporizers.
Deluxe Vaporizer
