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Marijuana Vaporizer FYI

A marijuana vaporizer is a device commonly used by medicinal and recreational cannabis enthusiasts.

Marijuana vaporizing is an alternative to toking a joint or smoking a bong. Rather than burning cannabis, a marijuana vaporizer heats weed so the psychoactive and medicinal properties contained in the plant are released into pleasant vapor.

Containing no particulate matter (tars) found in the smoke.

With less or no smoke formed, and a much cooler temperature, the irritating or harmful effects of smoke and associated toxins are greatly reduced or even eliminated.

Smoking cannabis is widely considered to be a health hazard, not due to the effects of cannabinoids, but rather due to the effects of the byproducts formed during combustion. Consequently, the shortcomings of smoked cannabis have been widely viewed as a major obstacle for approval of crude cannabis for medical users.

Even though many studies clearly indicate that the strong expectorant activity of THC probably compensates for much of the ingested tars in a manner not akin to the smoking of tobacco.

Nevertheless, in response to the concerns several scientific studies have tried to establish whether marijuana vaporizers could offer a clinically reliable and safe method of cannabis inhalation.

Though marijuana vaporizers show great variations in performance, such studies have always found vaporization superior to smoking. High-end marijuana vaporizers used in conjunction with medicinal marijuana strains containing elevated levels of THC (the medicinal and psychoactive ingredient in cannabis) have been found to entirely eliminate inhalation of undesired compounds in a manner consistent enough for clinical trials.

In comparison to other cannabis use methods such as eating, marijuana vaporization offers the advantages of inhaling THC: rapid onset, direct delivery into the bloodstream, and the possibility to gradually increase delivery until the desired level is reached, in this manner enabling more effective self-dosage.

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