Ahh, dude, the Vaporgenie fucking rocks. I got one free with my Extreme... and after hitting the Extreme, honestly, I had no want to even try the Vaporgenie. It just sat in a drawer and I figured I'd try it the next time I want to get high away from home. I was excited about it, because it seemed cool, but then I hit the Extreme and it felt like sacrilege to go back to fire.
Anyway, last night I got my chance. Went to visit a buddy and figured I'd introduce him to vapor and we could both try the vaporgenie for the first time. The results..... amazing. First hit was weak. I felt it since I'm used to vapor now. My buddy thought he just got air (he didn't... just a really weak vapor hit). Another draw through her and the vapor was nice! good taste, in fact very similar to the Extreme! I was surprised. Buddy got a real good hit of vapor on his second hit. Blew a nice cloud. Then insisted that it was smoke, not vapor. We pulled the bud out, look mommy, no black. In fact it's still very green! He's amazed at this point.
Third hit he did great. Then it was time for my third... I got a little too excited and set the weed on fire. I was pulling a nice hit of vape and then suddenly I felt like I was inhaling sand. I'm not kidding you. I stopped not because I thought there was smoke but because it felt like pieces of the bud were falling off and going into my lungs. It wasn't... the smoke was just that harsh on me after vaping. Then I blew out this nasty bit of smoke and tasted the burned popcorn taste. Yuck.
We were both pretty baked so no more hits anyway. I threw away the rest of that herb... not going to have that nasty taste around. I can see a big drawback to the vaporgenie, now, even though I love the thing. I'm going to eventually get perfect at pulling vape hits without combustion, but the people I'd be sharing with won't. They'll burn the top of my weed and I'll insist on throwing it all away and loading a new one because I don't want to deal with that.
Anyway, I love this little pipe. For me, without it, I literally would not be able to enjoy mj with my buddies anymore. Because I'm not lugging a big vaporizer around with me and I refuse to smoke. With this, I can sit back and enjoy the peace pipe with everyone, anywhere I am.