Pipe or papers? Bong or bowl? Just a few years ago these were the only choices for marijuana smokers to use to consume their vice of choice.  Today there is a new method that is becoming more and more popular: vaporizing your weed.  Utilizing advanced technology, marijuana smokers have become more “high” tech.

Vaporizing your marijuana is a method by which the cannabis is heated to the point where the psychoactive substances in the marijuana evaporate without combusting into flames.  The temperatures that the vaporizers raise the cannabis to are somewhere in the range of 180 to 200 degrees Celsius or 356 to 392 degrees Fahrenheit. This is just below the point of combustion. This is the point that the cannibinoids are released but the tar and other harmful gases are not released. What you are doing is essentially boiling your marijuana.  This method concentrates the cannibinoids in a resin form. This method delivers the cannibinoids to your brain without delivering the harsh burning smoke to your lungs.  There is also very little smell with vaporizing as compared to smoking.

Some studies actually suggest that more cannibinoids are delivered to the brain because some are destroyed during the combustion process which does not take place with vaporizing. When you smoke your pot you are not just inhaling the marijuana smoke but other toxins that can be hazardous to your lungs and respiratory system.  One of these is the aromatic hydrocarbon which may cause cancer. This is strictly a byproduct of combustion, something that you will not get with vaporizing.  Chronic smokers put themselves at risk for respiratory conditions such as bronchitis and emphysema.