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1: Vaporizing cannabis is healthier than smoking.
While there haven’t been any long-term studies, researchers do believe that vaporizing cannabis is much healthier than smoking the plant. In 2006, a research study conducted by Mitch Earleywine and Sara Smucker-Barnwell showed that “vaporizer users were less likely to report respiratory problems than participants who did not vaporize, with 100 of 152 vaporizer users (65.8%) reporting no respiratory problems.” When vaporizing cannabis, there’s also no harshness or “throat hit.” When done properly, vaporizing cannabis does not irritate the lungs and throat, while smoking can cause temporary irritation or discomfort.
2: Vaporizing cannabis eliminates the risk of toxins from burning plant material/rolling papers.
While it’s true that marijuana smoke is hundreds, if not thousands of times less dangerous than cigarette smoke, smoking marijuana can still harm your esophagus and lungs. Marijuana smoke, however, does not cause cancer. Vaporizing cannabis is one of the easiest delivery methods for patients who want to use medical marijuana, but don’t want to smoke. This is especially helpful for patients with lung diseases or disorders who don’t want smoke to irritate their esophagus or lungs.
3: Vaporizers have precise control over heat and other important factors.
It’s not impossible to measure dosages of cannabis, but it’s incredibly difficult to do with buds and loose-leaf medicine. A company based out of Israel, Syqe Medical, has developed a vaporizer that is being referred to by many as “The World’s First Metered-Dose Pharmaceutical Grade Medical Cannabis Inhaler.” While it may be hard for patients to measure precise doses themselves, patients can control many other factors of their cannabis vapor experience, such as temperature, or how much vapor they ingest.
4: Portable Vaporizers are discreet, and emit little to no smell.
Vaporizers come in many different form factors. Classical tabletop vaporizers are still used, but nowadays, patients can get a tabletop vaporizer for their desk or coffee table at home, a portable vaporizer for relief outside of the house, and for when it’s necessary to medicate in public, a purposefully discreet portable vaporizer. Portable vaporizers like the Ploom Pax, the Grenco Science G-Pro, and the Puffit X are excellent portable vaporizers that work as well as their tabletop counterparts, but are discreet enough for outdoor use. If a patient suffers from a condition that requires immediate medication when they feel symptoms, a portable vaporizer like the Puffit X are designed to give patients fast access to the medicine they need when outside or in public, because it’s designed to look like an asthma inhaler. While society, and some states laws, don’t completely deem it acceptable, access to cannabis as a medicine 24 hours a day can for some patients be as lifesaving and important as carrying an actual asthma inhaler for an asthma patient.
5: Vaporizers provide faster relief than edibles to patients who can’t smoke
To patients who can’t smoke and need immediate relief that edible cannabis doesn’t provide, vaporizers are the perfect solution. Since the cannabinoids in edibles are metabolized by the liver when eaten, they take up to two hours to take effect. When inhaled, cannabinoids take merely a few seconds to absorb into the patients system, and the effects of the medicine are felt within 5-20 minutes. The quick and convenient access to medication via vaporizer is what makes day-to-day life possible for many patients in situations where they can’t smoke.
Want to learn about other ways to ingest medical marijuana? Click here to read “Medica Marijuana: The Many Options”.Vaporizing Marijuana vs. Smoking Marijuana
Although they’re more expensive than a pack of papers or a pipe, vaporizers have recently become one of the most popular ways to ingest medical cannabis. A marijuana vaporizer, unlike a pipe, uses convection heat to vaporize cannabinoids in medical marijuana and deliver them to the patients lungs via vapor. Using a convection vaporizer is a more efficient and healthy way to consume cannabis than smoking it. Medical marijuana patients also have the option of using a vaporizer pen to heat up concentrates, which is much more convenient and discreet than using a glass concentrate rig. Vaporizers have many benefits, but here are the top five benefits of vaporizing vs. smoking.
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1: Vaporizing cannabis is healthier than smoking.
While there haven’t been any long-term studies, researchers do believe that vaporizing cannabis is much healthier than smoking the plant. In 2006, a research study conducted by Mitch Earleywine and Sara Smucker-Barnwell showed that “vaporizer users were less likely to report respiratory problems than participants who did not vaporize, with 100 of 152 vaporizer users (65.8%) reporting no respiratory problems.” When vaporizing cannabis, there’s also no harshness or “throat hit.” When done properly, vaporizing cannabis does not irritate the lungs and throat, while smoking can cause temporary irritation or discomfort.
2: Vaporizing cannabis eliminates the risk of toxins from burning plant material/rolling papers.
While it’s true that marijuana smoke is hundreds, if not thousands of times less dangerous than cigarette smoke, smoking marijuana can still harm your esophagus and lungs. Marijuana smoke, however, does not cause cancer. Vaporizing cannabis is one of the easiest delivery methods for patients who want to use medical marijuana, but don’t want to smoke. This is especially helpful for patients with lung diseases or disorders who don’t want smoke to irritate their esophagus or lungs.
3: Vaporizers have precise control over heat and other important factors.
It’s not impossible to measure dosages of cannabis, but it’s incredibly difficult to do with buds and loose-leaf medicine. A company based out of Israel, Syqe Medical, has developed a vaporizer that is being referred to by many as “The World’s First Metered-Dose Pharmaceutical Grade Medical Cannabis Inhaler.” While it may be hard for patients to measure precise doses themselves, patients can control many other factors of their cannabis vapor experience, such as temperature, or how much vapor they ingest.
4: Portable Vaporizers are discreet, and emit little to no smell.
Vaporizers come in many different form factors. Classical tabletop vaporizers are still used, but nowadays, patients can get a tabletop vaporizer for their desk or coffee table at home, a portable vaporizer for relief outside of the house, and for when it’s necessary to medicate in public, a purposefully discreet portable vaporizer. Portable vaporizers like the Ploom Pax, the Grenco Science G-Pro, and the Puffit X are excellent portable vaporizers that work as well as their tabletop counterparts, but are discreet enough for outdoor use. If a patient suffers from a condition that requires immediate medication when they feel symptoms, a portable vaporizer like the Puffit X are designed to give patients fast access to the medicine they need when outside or in public, because it’s designed to look like an asthma inhaler. While society, and some states laws, don’t completely deem it acceptable, access to cannabis as a medicine 24 hours a day can for some patients be as lifesaving and important as carrying an actual asthma inhaler for an asthma patient.
5: Vaporizers provide faster relief than edibles to patients who can’t smoke
To patients who can’t smoke and need immediate relief that edible cannabis doesn’t provide, vaporizers are the perfect solution. Since the cannabinoids in edibles are metabolized by the liver when eaten, they take up to two hours to take effect. When inhaled, cannabinoids take merely a few seconds to absorb into the patients system, and the effects of the medicine are felt within 5-20 minutes. The quick and convenient access to medication via vaporizer is what makes day-to-day life possible for many patients in situations where they can’t smoke.
Want to learn about other ways to ingest medical marijuana? Click here to read “Medica Marijuana: The Many Options”.
(Photo credit: openvape.com)
1: Vaporizing cannabis is healthier than smoking.
While there haven’t been any long-term studies, researchers do believe that vaporizing cannabis is much healthier than smoking the plant. In 2006, a research study conducted by Mitch Earleywine and Sara Smucker-Barnwell showed that “vaporizer users were less likely to report respiratory problems than participants who did not vaporize, with 100 of 152 vaporizer users (65.8%) reporting no respiratory problems.” When vaporizing cannabis, there’s also no harshness or “throat hit.” When done properly, vaporizing cannabis does not irritate the lungs and throat, while smoking can cause temporary irritation or discomfort.
2: Vaporizing cannabis eliminates the risk of toxins from burning plant material/rolling papers.
While it’s true that marijuana smoke is hundreds, if not thousands of times less dangerous than cigarette smoke, smoking marijuana can still harm your esophagus and lungs. Marijuana smoke, however, does not cause cancer. Vaporizing cannabis is one of the easiest delivery methods for patients who want to use medical marijuana, but don’t want to smoke. This is especially helpful for patients with lung diseases or disorders who don’t want smoke to irritate their esophagus or lungs.
3: Vaporizers have precise control over heat and other important factors.
It’s not impossible to measure dosages of cannabis, but it’s incredibly difficult to do with buds and loose-leaf medicine. A company based out of Israel, Syqe Medical, has developed a vaporizer that is being referred to by many as “The World’s First Metered-Dose Pharmaceutical Grade Medical Cannabis Inhaler.” While it may be hard for patients to measure precise doses themselves, patients can control many other factors of their cannabis vapor experience, such as temperature, or how much vapor they ingest.
4: Portable Vaporizers are discreet, and emit little to no smell.
Vaporizers come in many different form factors. Classical tabletop vaporizers are still used, but nowadays, patients can get a tabletop vaporizer for their desk or coffee table at home, a portable vaporizer for relief outside of the house, and for when it’s necessary to medicate in public, a purposefully discreet portable vaporizer. Portable vaporizers like the Ploom Pax, the Grenco Science G-Pro, and the Puffit X are excellent portable vaporizers that work as well as their tabletop counterparts, but are discreet enough for outdoor use. If a patient suffers from a condition that requires immediate medication when they feel symptoms, a portable vaporizer like the Puffit X are designed to give patients fast access to the medicine they need when outside or in public, because it’s designed to look like an asthma inhaler. While society, and some states laws, don’t completely deem it acceptable, access to cannabis as a medicine 24 hours a day can for some patients be as lifesaving and important as carrying an actual asthma inhaler for an asthma patient.
5: Vaporizers provide faster relief than edibles to patients who can’t smoke
To patients who can’t smoke and need immediate relief that edible cannabis doesn’t provide, vaporizers are the perfect solution. Since the cannabinoids in edibles are metabolized by the liver when eaten, they take up to two hours to take effect. When inhaled, cannabinoids take merely a few seconds to absorb into the patients system, and the effects of the medicine are felt within 5-20 minutes. The quick and convenient access to medication via vaporizer is what makes day-to-day life possible for many patients in situations where they can’t smoke.
Want to learn about other ways to ingest medical marijuana? Click here to read “Medica Marijuana: The Many Options”.
