Vaporizer: Beginner's Guide

Vaporizers are the answer to black lung scans, smoker's coughs and guilty consciences: That's because, as part of the #fuckcombustion movement, engineers around the world have ventured into developing combustion-free weed inhalers. All under the ideal that cannabis will find wide (haha) application as medicine for a wide variety of diagnoses. Therefore, it is not surprising that the first developments of vaporizers spring from the world's medicine capital Tuttlingen in the Black Forest.

Vaporizer with medical intention.

Already in 2000, when medical cannabis was not even an idea in most countries, the first Volcano came out. The Volcano Classic. Three years medical cannabis was already legal at that point on the other side of the world. On the west coast of the USA, medical cannabis had already been legalized or decriminalized in California and Oregon in 1997, and so the traditional smithy Storz and Bickel thought that not every patient would want to - or be able to - smoke their medicine through a bong or in a joint. After all, many patients have conditions where penetrating the lungs with pollutants and combustion products does more harm than it provides relief.

With vaping, a trend has developed in the last 20 years, which has brought to light numerous companies, products and applications that could not be more different. Finally, you really have a choice between smoking or consuming healthier.

Meanwhile, there are not only vaporizers for the socket, like the said Volcano, but also mobile devices. Today, it is possible to vaporize both flowers and concentrates in most vaporizers. Some vaporizers like the VapeXhale even have a water filter to make the vapor even smoother.

  "Vaping" goes with flower and concentrates.

Of course, it all started with vaporizers for flower. After all, cannabis extracts haven't been in vogue for that long; the raisin technique with straighteners, for example, was only discovered in 2015. Nevertheless, extracts were quickly given attention by the vaporizer world: for the Volcano, there was quickly a pillow made of interwoven stainless steel, which looks like a nest and into which the extracts can be put. Since then, numerous vaporizer manufacturers have included a so-called drip pad with their products in order to be able to vaporize both flowers and concentrates. This also makes it convenient to vaporize hashish products. Nevertheless, there are no limits to the user's imagination, as extract and hash can also be placed on a pillow of blossoms in the vaporizer without affecting its functionality. For example, we like to vape ground CBD flowers with a topping of Skunky Monkey CBD concentrate, which is great to handle.

Temperature is king: targeted evaporation of active ingredients.

One of the very great strengths of vaporizers is the variable temperature setting. Even entry-level models in the lower price range are often equipped with this feature, because the setting of the temperature directly affects the effect or the effect profile of cannabis products. After all, the cannabis plant contains hundreds of ingredients, all of which vaporize at very specific temperatures - below the temperature where plant material usually burns. The said ingredients are classified into cannabinoids such as THC and CBD, and terpenes. Terpenes are secondary ingredients of the plant, which, unlike cannabinoids such as CBD or THC, are only present in very low concentrations < 2%. Mostly even in the per mille range, because only master growers reach terpene levels in the percentage range. You can learn more about terpenes in our BLOG category TERPENE.

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Anyway, vaporizers are masters at keeping the vaporization temperature constant, thus precisely and specifically vaporizing only those ingredients whose vaporization temperature is below the vaporizer's set temperature. In our four terpene articles we present two terpenes each and have written the vaporization temperature of the terpenes next to the headline. Thus, you are directly informed which terpenes with which special effect vaporize at how many degrees.

Feel free to check out our vaporizer category, we are constantly on the cutting edge and always try to provide you with the latest models.