After 37 years a coughing, living in prohibition, and generally hiding out, I've discovered a huge community on the internet and can, for the first time in my life, really speak openly with others about my use.
And you want to disagree with me?
You want to point out how you know better than me?
Good hell, that's the whole reason I came here. I could go back to hiding out and smoking in my basement alone and be right 100% of the time - but where's the fun in that?
Several months ago, I "discovered" extraction. Of course I started out trying it myself (I'm as OCD as a fair number of you). I then arranged for sources and started sampling available products. It was the coughing from the most poorly purged bho that brought me to FC.
Now I've found a vape that works for me and am coughing far less than ever. I'm looking for another vape and perhaps a better waterpath as well.
I still have a ton to learn here before I stop spending hours a day reading the threads here.
This thread caught my attention because I too became very frustrated with the poorer products out there - and in my personal experience, it's the horrendous coughing/gagging that is a mark of a product (or means of consumption) that's just not for me. This notion of some relationship between quality and coughing is purely my subjective preference.
I came to FC to reduce my coughing (but edibles, tinctures, and balms just don't cut it for me) and I appreciate your input Atomsk, really I do.
jds
I really don't want to do anything of those things, bud. I know the frustration of having to hide something that helps your quality of life. I know how freeing it can be to be able to speak openly about it when you have no other outlet. It's really a shared feeling among many of the users you'll find on these forums. And I'm glad you're getting that here. I wouldn't dream of taking that away from anyone. Hell, how do you think we all know so much here? We share information. I wouldn't say I know more than you, but I would say that I've been here longer, which has given me longer access to said information.
However, your response to the video posted just didn't sit right with me. I was just giving the guy a couple of sure fire sources to feed his need and you implied that I merely gave him a product based on popularity that was probably bad quality because of the people coughing in the video.
Part of the nature of forums is being able to back up what you say, otherwise you're just giving people a bunch of empty words. I did not mean to attack you personally, I was merely bolstering my opinion because I believe I was right. I'm sure you do the same when you come in to question.
The advice I give still stands. TerpX and Laogrow. If you do a search on Laogrow, you'll find that a lot of forums, Weedmaps in California, and Weedtracker all tout him as a "Legendary" extractor. This can be part hype, but IMO, it's the delivery of a purely pleasurable, high quality extract that keeps people talking about him.
Now, as to your coughing problem. I have asthma and a finnicky throat, so I have some tips for you:
A cough drop, mint, or any hard candy really, helps you produce saliva & greatly heightens the vape and smoke experience. The saliva helps keep your throat lubricated during consumption, meaning less irritation. Equally, a glass of water or whatever you'd like to drink can accomplish this. I do both when I have really bad days. The only thing is, too many cough drops can be unhealthy as the menthol can make you sick.
A water path is a great step towards comfort in vaping. The right water path, doubly so. You might find warm or cold water to be preferential, so try both. Perculators, diffusers, and the like help bring moisture in to the vapor for a smoother hit. If you've got the money to spend, I would say these
fritted disc bongs from David Goldstein are pretty fucking amazing. A buddy of mine got one and I cannot get over just how well this thing hits. Dabs are normally cough rendering, but the itch is way lessened with the diffusion in these bad boys.
Another toy to look at for your water path would be a carbon filter. These are usually downstems with what look like little black rocks. They filter the carbon out of your smoke and vapor, since, depending on which vape you have, combustion can sometimes occur. Makes for a very smooth smoke.
Lastly, I don't know if you've had the right edibles or tinctures. There have been great strides in the efficient production of these delivery systems, and they can be uncomfortably potent if you're not cautious.
Being OCD with these things, I have found a couple of steps that are usually absent in weed butter making that I find necessary to a truly nightmarishly strong edible; things like decarboxylization to convert inactive THC-a in to psychoactive THC; using soy lecithin to increase bio-availability and ultimately help deliver more THC to your digestive system; freezing the butter after taking it out of the oven to really help the binding process. These three steps alone made it so that I ruined Christmas 2010.
You should also look up Green Dragon, which is a great tincture method, and can really knock you on your ass. It's also pretty simple. Grind an 8th of bud, place it in a certain amount of Everclear or any similar high-proof alcohol (190 proof), double boil it at a certain temperature for about 20 minutes, and you can have a dropper-full medicate you for the entire day if done right.
Stay on the forums and look these things up for yourself. You might find exactly what you've been needing. I hope to see you continually learning from and contributing to the forums.
Good luck.
... a more poor quality extraction will cause irritation, and make you Bad Cough
(as jds32 said "gagging"). 
