I made the assumption I was older than most when I choose my name. After reading some here and in another thread flashing on the past, I am not the oldest, even though I remember the '70s “weed” scene. My how different things were then.
There was no internet to swap information. There were friends who swapped stories (There is no greater expert to a person who has smoked once than the person who has smoked twice.) and The Anarchist Cookbook, that the dankless brought to mom's kitchen to follow the instructions on how to get high off of banana peels. I love the care so many here take to be safe—including on what is put in one's body. In the day, I've smoked stuff with rat droppings in it in a “pipe” make of tinfoil wrapped around a pencil to make a tube that you remove and bend. That could not have been good.
But, after a misspent youth, I became upright, reverent, thrifty and brave and did not partake for decades. Little drinking, no smoking, no nothing except for caffeine and a dedication to fitness. Later in life, my wife became sick with breast cancer and I began to study a bit on this medical marijuana. In preparation for chemo, we got a set up to vape it. It was an old box vape with a whip. The heat dial was unmarked and I believe the connection was glass on metal. (Glass heating chamber on whip, metal nipple on box.) She got the “paranoids” and never vaped again. Towards the end, she was prescribed Marinol.
Got myself a new wife and moved on with my life when I ran into some medical problems. I started by smoking and found I didn't enjoy the lung irritation so tried to vape by purchasing the MFLB. Man, it worked. I was always amazed at how simple the concept was and at how you can get so much control over the toasting once the skill of moderating temperature is learned. Overcame problems and put up my kit.
Now, years later, the problems return and I got my medical card again. Tried the MFLB and it worked, again. Wanted more and tried the G pen Elite. Bad company, OK vape. You could play with cracking the herb, but the draw was hard, the screen over the oven would get clogged and the mini-usb port was twitchy so I looked for another. Got an Atmos RX pen that supposedly can do herb as well as concentrate. (Through the use of a glass screen between the coils and the herb.) No. You could rip a dab, but that was not my purpose or need. So, I got the FireFly2. It is a wonderful vape that hits so cool that a low temp vaper needs to wait a bit after use to see the effect than use heat at the back of the throat as a guide as to how much vapor was produced. This is a wonderful experience when one has the time. When one needs to grab something fast, I still go to the MFLB. It is easy to get exactly what I want from it, where I still have some hurdles to overcome for the FF2.
I loved the FF2 with concentrate and liked the experience I got with the pen, so got a Yocan Evolve Plus. Talk about hitting like a heavyweight. I could probably have learned how to use it lighter, but the ripping clouds was not what I seek in general. I gave it to a friend who just got his card as he is coming from combustion and this will prove that vaping can get the job done just as well. To replace the Yocan, I got a mod and a Saionara. I love the combination. It is a perfect fit for me. You can hit it as hard as you want and it performs. Big clouds or low heat microdose, you can do it with a mod and a Sai.
Finally, I choose fuckcombustion to hang out as the people here seem so reasonable and intelligent as compared to many other places with similar themes. Sure, we'll have differences. (For instance, it seems I am the turd in the punchbowl conservative here.) But, I haven't been called a -phobe of some sort as yet and disagreements have been factual rather than personal, so I suspect the differences will be balanced by our similarities. Besides, some of the threads here are amazing. The knowledge, and challenges to that knowledge, thrown out for free are exponentially better than the resources of any previous generation of users. (I'm still practicing calculations from the Divine Tribe atty thread.) Thank you all for what you do here.