Wow man you've been around a lot longer than me! I didn't mean to insult or say luxury as in you don't need cannabis tools I just meant I've gotten very nice results from other vapes the closest to my evo ime was my lotus which I don't even know if that's a thing anymore and I know butane vapes aren't always friendly to medicinal users
I'm sorry it's difficult to find one in your budget hopefully you can find a nice used one I've seen the come up inexpensive from time to time
I’ve never tried the Lotus. I’ve tried DynaVap, and while I like it, it does hit a little too harder than I can handle a majority of the time. I’ve heard better things about the Lotus, but never used it.
Different users will appreciate different machines. If you don’t have anything wrong with your pulmonary/respiratory system, you can probably take dabs off of a hot nail with the best of them(I don’t really consider dabbing “medical use,” unless it’s done extremely carefully. Cartridges sometimes, blowtorches and nails no.) I really miss being able to dab.
Also, you’re likely still combusting most of the time, because ime, outside of the internet, in a town of 200k with 60+ weed shops, most of which sell at least one vaporizer, I know exactly one other person who vapes instead of combustion, and they’re in congestive heart failure. The rest consider it a novelty that they would never drop hundreds of $$’s on.
He still uses one of the first vapes. They were handmade using a glass jar, with 2 tubes. You run a fan powered heat gun($35-100 at Walmart or a hardware store depending on what kind of quality you want,) through one tube, and the air pushed the heat over the herb(they took a crap ton to run. They’re called “grower’s vaporizers,”) and it went through another tube that was hooked up to a Volcano bag. There were various Macgyver’ed valve types before the Volcano came out, but by the time I was old enough to come into contact with someone who owned one, it was out. They produced great vapor if you had a heat gun with good enough control.
Ime, medical users that vape use the best thing they can afford. My friends that weren’t born disabled and have been able to work more than I have mostly have machines like the Herbalizer or, the VapeXHale(how I found out about and tried it. We talk.) Those of us who were born disabled and have spent our lives on SSI aren’t so lucky.
“Green Friday” is probably the most depressing day of the year for me. All of these wonderful deals, that I still couldn’t afford if I saved up *all* of my expendable income for a year. Truth.
On Jan 1st of this year, my SSI was increased from $732/m, to $734/m, and for some reason because of that, they cut my food stamps by $120, forcing me to choose between eating and paying rent. Expendable income isn’t something I have anymore. I’ve lost half of my teeth in the last year because for me homelessness equals death.
The majority of my friends don’t really like vaporization, or consider my machines novelties(I have been able to get my mom off of combustion with hand me downs.) It’s hard to get someone a good hit on their first try out of anything other than a whip type vape or a Pax, and while I have a Pax 3, even I’m underwhelmed by it(effect wise. It doesn’t take much to make me cough anymore.)
I would say that while it’s true that most vaporizers will work for most users(obvious exceptions being people with limited mobility, bad eyesight/blindness, other major mobility issues,) ime, the most requested feature(regardless of whether we get it or not) from medical users is the ability to start from a lower range(like I said, the range on the VapeXHale is perfect for *all users.* I would settle for one that started at 220 and topped off at 400.
The second most requested feature is single degree temp control. But if the low end isn’t low enough, there are already so many cannabinoids boiling at 340-360 that single degree temp control doesn’t really affect the experience the way it would if you could set the machine to the boiling points of some of the more important cannabinoids(namely THCA...)
)you would be amazed how little herb is needed to fully milk up your piece in the evo, I’m talking approximately 1/8 an ELB.