What I Love & Hate About Vaping

Olympus Mons

Probation Officer
Let's sum it up, plain and simple. I hate posting new threads because I always feel like a pompous ass, so if the mods wanna delete this for being useless, I take no offense and thank them for setting me on the Golden Path to Things That Are Worth Creating A Thread About. But if this thread survives, let's all vape some cannabis and eat some (stir fried!!!) mushrooms, if you like, and talk about what we love and hate most about vaping. Do it any way you want, but I'll start, and do it like this:

What I Love About Vaping:

1. Healthy. I'm old and don't give much of a fuck anymore, but I still love my wife and family and friends, so vaping is good for them if they wanna keep me around.:myday:

2. Tastes and works great! Mmmmm! First vaped hit out of a clean, primed, chilled table unit, oh, just pick your strain, that first good hit, THAT IS WHY I VAPE! Mmm, mmm, good! This is not the thread to talk about Volcanoes or Provaris or NASA projects, which are cool, just positive and negative about vaping in general.

3. Delivers a somewhat better high, quality and quantity wise, verses smoking. I mean, I LIKE vaping, the high seems a cut above smoking, and really you can stretch your bud with wise, proficient vaping. Christ, I get slam-in-my-arm-and-pump-the-works hits with vaping sometimes, and I still feel it's pretty natural and not like slamming smack when I'm vaping top shelf buds. Take it from a former smack and crank and crack user, my signature doesn't say "Switch to Cannabis" for nothing. I love drugs. Anyone who doesn't is a liar. Drugs make you feel great. I live for drugs and I'd die if I ever again started using anything other than cannabis, and the occasional Valium when the in-laws come to visit. Pot cured me of a meth, crack, and pill addiction, and recently, ameliorates an alcohol and tobacco addiction. I am a lush. Cannabis is a good mask for that.:cool:

What I Hate About Vaping:

1. Not much, really, though a few things do come to mind: General public reaction to vaping, both cannabis and e-cig usage; and,

2. Prices of electronic vaporizers. My hard-core friends will thoroughly kick my ass, but I still say $700 is too much to pay to get high, man. But Donald Trump, be my fucking guest. If ya got it blow it. Just invite me.

Hate vaping my e-cig in public. Assholes look at me like I'm the asshole, which I am, but they don't know that, and neither really do I know that they are assholes, so I switch to an atomizer full of hash oil and think of something else.
 

ataxian

PALE BLUE DOT
1. Healthy. I'm old and don't give much of a fuck anymore, but I still love my wife and family and friends, so vaping is good for them if they wanna keep me around.:myday:
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I can't smoke a joint anymore.
Coughing is hard on the body.
Vaporizing is so tasty besides smoother on my body.

The strongest strain isn't always the best for me.
Some of the so called weaker strains are nice as well.

I love how peaceful cannabis makes me specially around my family.
 

Detonator

Well-Known Member
I love everything about vaping, accept that I don't seem to use less weed like others say. I really like the less smell, better high I guess?? And les s mess and ash. I can hit the solo at Starbucks fairly descretely.

But I especially like ecig, being able to take a hit in line at walmartis nice.
 

salivape

Well-Known Member
What I love... efficiency. less bad breath than from smoking. The smell doesn't stick to your clothes for weeks. The high is cleaner. Most of all the taste!

What I don't love.. seeing that I can only use portables the charging (or lack of) annoys me. The fact that I still cough on vapor. I do use high temps so that is partly my own fault. If I forget my vape and Im out straight from work I cant 'medicate' without combustion.My biggest hate is VAS. I don't earn enough for that shit lol
 

ataxian

PALE BLUE DOT
. The fact that I still cough on vapor. I do use high temps so that is partly my own fault..My biggest hate is VAS. I don't earn enough for that shit lol

On my SOLO's I use level 4 any higher I cough as well.

VAS is something I hate as well.
The Water Pipe I want is $330.
I have cheap set ups that work really well.
My wife would not be happy to know I suffer from VAS.

For now I need to keep this disease a secrete.

I want to keep VAPING without upsetting the family structure.

So I understand that the VAS part of vaporizing can mess up our program!
 

salivape

Well-Known Member
I'm actually gonna do a session on 4 in a minute. At first it wasn't hitting hard enough for me but that was coming straight from smoking spliffs with tobacco. Maybe now I'm used to vaping 4 will satisfy me! I'll try anything to stop the coughing.

Oh I'm so glad that glass isn't practical for me. They are beautiful things to behold but they would just be ornaments. Let's hope your wife never stumbles across this thread! :tup: Do expensive pieces perform that much better or is it just the craftsmanship that you are paying for? I've only ever used cheap glass bongs.
 

ataxian

PALE BLUE DOT
:tup: Do expensive pieces perform that much better or is it just the craftsmanship that you are paying for? I've only ever used cheap glass bongs.



This is what I want.

All my glass is cheap low income stuff.
However works super well.
I don't know enough yet?

Cannabis is product that matters most!

Vaporizers are man made.
Cannabis is way more complex and to define it is not so easy.


Darn it I'm developing a glass addiction!
 

salamanderfish

Well-Known Member
Assholes look at me like I'm the asshole, which I am, but they don't know that, and neither really do I know that they are assholes, so I switch to an atomizer full of hash oil and think of something else.

Likewise! Oh how I've waited to hear someone say that so pointedly. I get a vibe that is something like "oh look you're being all fancy blazing out of a computer, when you going to pull out the Cuban cigars, campaign, caviar and frois gras you pretentious, privileged asshole. Drink boose and ride plastic toboggans down hills on University Campus like the rest of us. Common! You're in 3rd year and you've never blacked out and woken up with a chick you don't know! What the hell is that?"

Now I think that some of this is my own perception/imagination but some of it is definitely very real. It's part of my motivation to keep slimming down my collection because for the price of some of these things I could probably save an endangered species or bring clean water to a small Latin American village. I will never forget when my ex found out I spent $500 on a piece of glass.. That sort of thing became a sticking point. Fine paraphernalia is a flashy thing to have around. It can send a negative message the same way diamonds, Rolex watches or pricey bottles of wine can. It grabs peoples eyes and absorbs them like a famous painting of a controversial subject. Any glass piece costing more that $150 is indulgent. I hate to appear indulgent. Lets face it. Great scientific stuff can be had for less. I want to got back to one nice piece of glass and two vapes (portable and plugged). Simple is beautiful and I can keep it under the bed instead this time instead of on the mantle.
 

Seren

Away with the fairies
Ok, so like you guys there are tonnes of things I love about vaping, but for me the most enjoyable thing is most definitely the taste - herb never tasted anywhere near as good when I was combusting. I also love the incredibly clean high it gives me, and the fact that I no longer smell like an ashtray. My house now smells sweet too - there's no better air freshener than herb in my opinion. Of course the health benefits are also important, I love the fact that I no longer get short of breath when climbing a hill or a steep set of stairs, my blood pressure has also improved. I also love spending less money on herb because of the incredible efficiency that vaping offers, I now spend only a quarter of what I used to, which leaves me with more dosh to spend on another love - vaping accessories! :D

There's very little to hate about vaping in my opinion. I guess I'm with you Olympus Mons in hating that the better Vaporizers leave somewhat of a dent in the pocket - but then again, if I factor in the savings from not rolling tobacco joints anymore and from using less herb, I guess in the end they kind of end up paying for themselves.

I LOVE VAPING!!!!! FUCK COMBUSTION!!! :leaf:

:peace:
 
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VaporsVaporizer

On the Stoop
I love everything about Vaping-i don't see any downside. I've been vaping since 2002 and totally gave up combusting in 2006. I have lung issues from past use of cigarettes and i can't smoke weed-it hurts. I don't really save any $ vaping though- tastes too good :rofl:
 

vapirtoo

Well-Known Member
I love vaping, the taste is soo good. I guess I use less, but I'm not sure.
Sometimes the taste makes me go further then really needed. :ko::ko:
The lack of smell is also a huge benefit.
I like it that only special people take up vaping.

I hate when I fuck up the load and combust. The taste is so bad that I
have to iso everything and then go to another vape.

I hate that our society is so fucked up that something as natural as herb can
still be illegal and viewed with derision. I'm 60 years old and I'm still sneaking
a hit. WTF!? :rant:
 

lwien

Well-Known Member
I'm old.....

Curious. How old are you? Just wondering at what age one considers themselves old.

(and no comments from the peanut gallery, k? ;) )

What I love about vaping? (in no particular order)
Conserves bud
Less ambient smell
Better taste
Healthier

What I don't like about vaping?
Spending countless hours of my life on FC trying to find out the best vape to purchase and then spending countless more hours on FC reading all the tips to get the most from the vaporizer I purchased.
 

VaporsVaporizer

On the Stoop
I'm 60 years old and I'm still sneaking
a hit. WTF!? :rant:
You got me beat, but not by much :lol: I've been considered a criminal for 47 years but i'll see total legalization before i die and i never thought that would happen. :clap: I've paid my dues-i wanna be able to walk into a dispenceary in NYC and just buy my herb. Wonder if Medicare will cover it:D
 
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grokit

well-worn member
I like vaping because it tastes great, makes me feel great, and because I'm not inhaling all of those combustion toxins.

I like vaping because it's more efficient, but I like it so much more than combustion I use more material so that's out the window.

What I don't like is the fact that I want to try every vaporizer out there, because it takes away from the herb budget! At least now my focus is on portables, but they aren't exactly cheap either.
 

Quetzalcoatl

DEADY GUERRERO/DIRT COBAIN/GEORGE KUSH
Taste, efficiency, health are all pluses for me.

Taste is a double-edged sword! The first time I got BBK the smell was bad! Moldy cheese and feet and such a strong indica! The vaping only made the fragrance more noticeable... And now it's way easier to spot weed that hasn't been properly flushed.

My campus recently became tobacco-free, but thank god they had the right mind to allow ecigs. I got "the look" from a smoker... who was being talked to by campus police about how she couldn't smoke cigarettes there... as I walked right by them, blowing vapor like a steam engine :tup:
 

ataxian

PALE BLUE DOT
Taste, efficiency, health are all pluses for me.

Taste is a double-edged sword! The first time I got BBK the smell was bad! Moldy cheese and feet and such a strong indica! The vaping only made the fragrance more noticeable... And now it's way easier to spot weed that hasn't been properly flushed.
:tup:
Were on the same page!

I take a scientific approach to cannabis.
Many cannabis growers have become like corporate America.

We need to be profit driven to survive however skipping the flushing step in growing is cheating!
Vaporizing exposes the dishonest grower.
Most of the growers still smoke joints and bongs so they don't understand the needs of a vaporist?

When FLOWERS are vaporized the care and quality of the grow conditions are exposed!
 
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salivape

Well-Known Member
Really? I actually think a bad flush was more obvious when I was smoking. I mean I can still tell with vapor but the biggest give away for me was the smell of the smoke and the way it burned. Taste as well of course but that is not unique to smoking.
 

ataxian

PALE BLUE DOT
Really? I actually think a bad flush was more obvious when I was smoking. I mean I can still tell with vapor but the biggest give away for me was the smell of the smoke and the way it burned. Taste as well of course but that is not unique to smoking.
I guess I'm just trying to reason why the grower skips this important step?
 

salivape

Well-Known Member
Oh absolutely. There is no reasoning other than laziness and/or greed! Here in blighty I am very lucky to get properly flushed buds. It is flushed to an extent but not completely. Thanks prohibition!
 

Mark4MMJ

- VAPORNAUT -
Were on the same page!

I take a scientific approach to cannabis.
Many cannabis growers have become like corporate America.

We need to be profit driven to survive however skipping the flushing step in growing is cheating!
Vaporizing exposes the dishonest grower.
Most of the growers still smoke joints and bongs so they don't understand the needs of a vaporist?

When FLOWERS are vaporized the care and quality of the grow conditions are exposed!

This is very interesting, I'm new to vaping and haven't heard this before. I know what flushing is, but how exactly can it affect vaping?

Thanks!
 
Mark4MMJ,
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