Medical Cannabis Series
Advantages of Dry Herb Vaporisers over other modes of administration
Introduction
A dry herb vaporizer is a device that heats up dry cannabis flowers to an exact temperature in order to release a vapour containing only active ingredients from the dry cannabis flower. These devices do not create any tars or carcinogens associated with combustion when igniting a cigarette. Therefore, they are a safer and healthier option.
Dry herb vaporizers can be purchased from €60 up to €700 for tabletop devices. The technology has come a long way.
Advantages over Smoking
Vaping has numerous advantages over smoking. For one, it is quick and easy, and avoids any smoke smells. Vaporizing your herbs will outperform many other ways of using herbal blends.
Inhaling vapour not smoke
One of the most beneficial ways is that Vaporizers produce vapour and the other produces smoke. Smoke contains a lot of carcinogens and toxic chemicals that come from combustion. Cigarettes kill about 480,000 people just in the United States alone.
Cleaner with better taste
Smoking often destroys the taste of your herbs. Smoking two different dry herbs will give different flavours, however using a vaporizer will bring out the true taste of your herbs. Combustion can destroy the active ingredients in your herbs.
Less waste
Since combustion kills off so much active ingredient, it wastes a lot of herbs. Vaporizing not only stretches out the amount of hits you can take off a single bowl you pack, but lasts longer. Since you’re not heating the herbs up so high, it turns into vapour slowly. Releasing a cloud of active ingredient ready for your body to absorb.
Easier on your body
Vaping is much easier on the body, and many people experience this almost immediately when switching from smoking. Most people who smoke cigarettes talk about how it makes them exhausted. Another benefit of herbs is that it can act as a bronchodilator, improving lung or throat issues. Since there is no smoke, you won’t feel the vapour going through your mouth, throat, and lungs. Another benefit is that the vapour doesn’t get to a high temperature. Vaporizers generally go up to 220 °C. When compared to over 600 °C or more in inhaling combustible materials.
Discreet
Vaporizers are super discreet, from their design, to the smell and ease of use. Although there is still a smell to your vapour, it is much less than smoking. Smoking not only circulates all around, but it sticks to clothes, leaving you smelling like an ashtray. The visual difference in vapour and smoke is the texture. Smoke moves slower and the smell tends to linger. Vapour moves quicker and dissipates much faster. The design of a vape pen is also very discreet. Place it on your desk near a bunch of pens and almost no one will notice. The size is almost identical. You can even keep it in your possession, and it will never show.
Convenience
The convenient factor in a vaporizer is much higher. Simply use it and put it into your pocket right away. You can’t do that with a pipe. The bowl is still very hot, so you need it to cool down. You also don’t have to worry about the wind blowing your lighter out. Whether it’s windy or cold, your vape will still light up. Putting it in your pocket is also not a big deal. They’re usually so skinny or short, simply slide it in.
More control
Having more control over your dry herbs vapour gives you more power. Not only can you dose better, but you can choose how much vapour you want. Change the temperature a bit higher and you will get more vapour in a shorter amount of time. Take it down a bit, and you can get less vapour. Less vapour simply means you want to control how you feel with your herbs. Cannabis can be too much to handle if you do it really quick.
Less expensive
Prices on vapes can be all over the place. They start from around €60 and can go towards €700 for a high-end desktop vaporizer. On average, it is much more inexpensive than a water pipe. They cost more than €60 and can shatter very easily. You don’t even get a warranty with that. Smoking does require you to keep buying lighters, rolling papers and glassware if it breaks. You also waste more herbs, so you keep buying more, quicker.
Herbs last longer
Herbs can last longer when you’re not burning them at 600 °C or higher. When you burn them, they turn into char. When you finish vaping your bowl, they’re not charred, but semi-brown. You can take the vaped bud and make edibles if you’re vaping cannabis. Already Vaped Bud (AVB) is what’s left of your herbs when you finish vaping.
Micro-Dosing
Micro-dosing is a very new idea that people are implementing, and it works really well with medical cannabis. Some people don’t need to vape or smoke until they get the full effects. You can get away with using a very minimal amount. Micro-dosing works by using such low amount of doses to not feel the effects on your body. You still get some sort of cellular response that still works on your body.
Better for medicinal purposes
Using a vaporizer for medical cannabis or medicinal uses gives you an advantage. Not only can you dose it as fits your needs, but vaping is much easier on your lungs or throat. Simply pack less in your herbal chamber and vape at a lower temperature.
Less tar and carcinogens
Smoking produces much more tar than vaping. Since vaping doesn’t consist of burning anything, you’re not producing any tar. There will be some gunk or residue forming in your herbal chamber. This is because the heat is causing the oils from the herbs to slowly find its way out.
More options
Smoking doesn’t give many different options. You have rolling paper, cigar leaf, and pipes but vapes come in different types. Not only can you pick between vape pens, portable vapes or desktop vapes. Then you can pick which feature or technology you want in your device. Most come with temperature setting options, and some come with built-in grinder or automatic shut-off.
You don’t smell
As mentioned before, smoke lingers around longer. It also sticks to clothes and walls. Even worse is the smell of your fingers after you finish smoking. It smells like an ashtray. Washing it with soap hardly does the trick. Vaping does not do this. You can minimize the smell being around you by using a dry herb vaporizer. One of the benefits of a weed vaporizer is that you can do your thing and walk away without a trace of smell.
Different effects
The effects of the psychoactive ingredient in your vapour will give you a much calmer effect rather than delivering it all at once. This is why micro-dosing is very popular with vapes.
Have you considered switching from smoking to a dry herb vaporizer? If so, get in touch, and we can order the perfect one just for you?
