Originally posted by: hanoverphist
Originally posted by: Mr Incognito
Originally posted by: hanoverphist
so when did they deem inhaling smoke of any kind as good for you?
You obviously don't know that you don't need to inhale smoke to get high. If you use a vaporizor there is no actual smoke.
lol, havent heard of that before. when i smoked, it was actual smoking.
Your fathers health problems arise not from the psychoactive ingredients in cannabis (THC and CBDs) but from the byproducts of his chosen delivery method which is combustion.
Smoking
anything (whether it's tobacco, cannabis, orange peels or cat poo) on a daily basis for years upon years will obviously have negative effects on your respiratory health.
Vaporizers are a relatively new delivery method but it's true that vaporizing reduces respiratory harm to negligible levels. If your father wants one buy only the best: the Volcano.
However, if your father, with his severe respiratory problems, still wants to enjoy the mind altering effects of cannabis simply eat and/or cook with it (this delivery method is as old as the practice of smoking it). The effect is actually stronger and lasts much longer but takes significantly longer to kick in (30min-90min depending on person/dose etc). Dosage is also harder to control than smoking but once you cook up a few batches of cookies/brownies or whatever you will learn the proper dosage for your desired effect.
You'll need to research the best ways to make it, such as preparing 'cannabutter', because THC and CBDs must be activated by heat (smoking), fat (cooking with oil or butter) or alcohol (use a high proof grain alcohol to extract the cannabinoids from the plant material... the resulting potion is commonly called 'Green Dragon' ...a few drops in your tea will put a large grin on your face)
There are numerous other ways to enjoy the very pleasant effects of cannabis without the health risks of combustion delivery.
Those of us who are responsible cannabis users ask only that the substance be treated
the same way as the more destructive substance alcohol is. Same restrictions etc.
Some interesting info regarding vaporizing:
The vapors from the Volcano® were found to consist overwhelmingly of THC, the major active component in marijuana, whereas the combusted smoke contained over 100 other chemicals, including several polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), carcinogenic toxins that are common in tobacco smoke. The respiratory hazards of marijuana and tobacco smoke are due to toxic byproducts of combustion, not the active ingredients in the plant, known as cannabinoids.
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The new study used a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) to examine the gas components of the vapor. .The analysis showed that the Volcano® vapor was remarkably clean, consisting 95% of THC with traces of cannabinol (CBN), another cannabinoid. The remaining 5% consisted of small amounts of three other components: one suspected cannabinoid relative, one suspected PAH, and caryophyllene, a fragrant oil in cannabis and other plants. In contrast over 111 different components appeared in the gas of the combusted smoke, including a half dozen known PAHs. Non-cannabinoids accounted for as much as 88% of the total gas content of the smoke.
http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/vaporizerstudy2.html