Ok... I just bought my first vaporizer yesterday, it's a digital one that cost $90 at a local head shop... I was told the optimal temperature was somewhere around 350-375 F for it to vaporize correctly...

I knew from the get-go that it wasn't going to produce the huge "cough lock" type high that actually smoking the dro has... I read a lot on these before i decided to buy it... I've been smoking marijuana for over 10+ years now, so i'm trying to look out for my lungs before it's too late... I smoke anywhere from an 1/16 to a 1/4 ounce of weed a day and have done so for the past 3 years...

I loaded it up once i got home.. Keep in mind i have never vaporized before and was by myself, so no one was there that even had any experience w/ it... I'd say i put somewhere between .5 and 1g of some low end mids... probably closer to .5 grams... It's a whip style vaporizer btw... I turned it on and set the temperature at 350 F degrees.. After a minute or two, the chamber underneath the bowl on the whip was somewhat cloudy and looked like there was a bunch of condensation on it...

I wasn't really sure how to hit it, so i went with the soft and long toke approach... Felt like i was just sucking in air to be honest... Once i had taken what I thought was enough, i held it in for a bit and before I even exhaled, i felt a little tingly feeling in my head... it felt good, so i continued to hit the vaporizer, probably 5-6 times total before i stirred it.. The pot still looked green/brown, yet it smelled like it was somewhat burned and really really dry... I stirred it some, and hooked it back up... I got about 4 more hits off it until when i exhaled, i actually blew out some smoke and coughed...

I dumped it out of the whip and it was like really super dry and brown... I read that it shouldn't turn black or you're actually smoking it, yet it should be brown and smell burned... So i think i cooked it, guess that will take some practice to figure out...

So, i decided to load another bowl... At that point I wasn't really super high, but i had a nice calm uplifting feeling... The next bowl, I put a little bit more in it, and in total i think I got about 15 hits off it before it looked the same as the first bowl when dumped out...

Catch is, i loaded my good ol' fashioned bong halfway through the 2nd bowl from the vaporizer... I took one hit off the bong after about 25 hits or so off the vaporizer, and i was cashed... Knowing that it was obvious one hit off a bong (especially of some low end mids) wouldn't get me "cashed" so to speak, i appreciated what the vaporizer had done for me even more...

I smoked 2 more bowls out of the vaporizer the entire evening, as well as rollin' up a joint just before bed.. It seemed to have the same effect as the bong hit earlier in the day.. I was only able to take a few hits off the joint, put it out and went to bed...

Anyways, i've been typing awhile, sorry for the rant... Hey, it's the Toke 'N Talk section, so i guess it really doesn't matter, eh? ..... All in all, i'd say the vaporizer is great... If you smoke out of just that, you will get a nice calm uplifting high that would be perfect when going out in public (school, work, gym, shopping, etc...) That's just my personal opinion... I've only vaporized for a day, so my views may change once i get some better quality herb..

It won't replace the feeling of actually smoking marijuana, but it's obviously a hell of a lot healthier on your lungs..

I think a combination of both, with some high quality herb, could produce some really good highs that you can't achieve by just smoking the good pot... Just some low end mids (vaporizing and smoking) produced a high from that pot i hadn't achieved before, and I had 4 ounces of this stuff, so i've been smoking it for a while... lol

I will probably be using the vaporizer more often than my other smoking accessories, but i think it will all depend on the quality of the buds i'm smoking at the moment... Lower quality bud, I would be more apt to go half and half (vaporize/smoke), where as with some higher quality bud i'd probably be happy just vaporizing and maybe taking a hit or two the ol' fashioned way...

That's it... i'm out....

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