gangababa
Well-Known Member
Grammatically, the word ‘vaporizador’ can have two meanings, the device or the user of the device.
Today I am two weeks short of my third year in Uruguay, happily retired and living as an expat with my wife. Upon arrival here I had an DaVinci Ascent, an Arizer Solo and some cart pens, all of them now dead. Just prior to the pandemic, my wife returned from a trip to the states with another original Solo.
Uruguay? Isn’t that the country that first legalized cannabis? I am asked. Well perhaps, but the country has also banned vapes. There is much that I do not understand.
There are no pot-shops like north-America offers. My 40 grams is delivered each month but I do not make the ‘what-is-it’ choice. Nonetheless I can sit undisturbed in the park and use my vape, and going about in the city I can smell cannabis that others smoke. Paraphenalia, rolling paper, bong and grow room stores abound. I can be gifted grass like the surprise grams that arrived with my recent vape purchase.
We chose to come here because the laws allowed legal residency and I have access to cannabis via one of the three choices, (home-grow, farmacía, grow club.) We luckily connected with a club that (providentially) grows organic in the sun.
When first we arrived, I saw some vapes in ‘grow-shops’ and some have been offered via an online market site.
I have even purchased vapes from a Uruguayan vape vender’s business web site (choosing the cash at home delivery option); most recently a Boundless Tera. Vapes are expensive due to high duty and shipping costs. The Tera was $299.
However, when I ask about vaporizers in tiendas I am told that vapes can’t be imported and I learned that a 2009 anti-tobacco law outlaws vapes as electronic cigarettes. In March we learned that a change in the law will now allow ‘dispositivos electrónicos para (tobaco) seco’, which is to say, dry herb devices.
Hopefully the availability of new vaporizers will increase in the future. It would be nice to be able to buy from the world, USA excluded for absence of shipping systems.
The Vaporseni site currently lists 21 vaporizers of with twelve are sold out (agotado).
Now back to enjoying the balcony view of el mar, the sight of the yoga class yoginis in the park below and the taste of my old Solo stem heating in the new Tera oven.
Today I am two weeks short of my third year in Uruguay, happily retired and living as an expat with my wife. Upon arrival here I had an DaVinci Ascent, an Arizer Solo and some cart pens, all of them now dead. Just prior to the pandemic, my wife returned from a trip to the states with another original Solo.
Uruguay? Isn’t that the country that first legalized cannabis? I am asked. Well perhaps, but the country has also banned vapes. There is much that I do not understand.
There are no pot-shops like north-America offers. My 40 grams is delivered each month but I do not make the ‘what-is-it’ choice. Nonetheless I can sit undisturbed in the park and use my vape, and going about in the city I can smell cannabis that others smoke. Paraphenalia, rolling paper, bong and grow room stores abound. I can be gifted grass like the surprise grams that arrived with my recent vape purchase.
We chose to come here because the laws allowed legal residency and I have access to cannabis via one of the three choices, (home-grow, farmacía, grow club.) We luckily connected with a club that (providentially) grows organic in the sun.
When first we arrived, I saw some vapes in ‘grow-shops’ and some have been offered via an online market site.
I have even purchased vapes from a Uruguayan vape vender’s business web site (choosing the cash at home delivery option); most recently a Boundless Tera. Vapes are expensive due to high duty and shipping costs. The Tera was $299.
However, when I ask about vaporizers in tiendas I am told that vapes can’t be imported and I learned that a 2009 anti-tobacco law outlaws vapes as electronic cigarettes. In March we learned that a change in the law will now allow ‘dispositivos electrónicos para (tobaco) seco’, which is to say, dry herb devices.
Hopefully the availability of new vaporizers will increase in the future. It would be nice to be able to buy from the world, USA excluded for absence of shipping systems.
The Vaporseni site currently lists 21 vaporizers of with twelve are sold out (agotado).
Now back to enjoying the balcony view of el mar, the sight of the yoga class yoginis in the park below and the taste of my old Solo stem heating in the new Tera oven.
