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Originally Posted by IndianaToker

III. Cannabis Vaporization Offers Advantages Over Orally Administered THC



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Vaporization is an alternative method of cannabis administration that holds distinct advantages over both smoking and oral administration. Cannabis vaporization suppresses respiratory toxins by heating cannabis to a temperature where cannabinoid vapors form (typically around 180-190 degrees Celsius), but below the point of combustion where noxious smoke and associated toxins (i.e., carcinogenic hydrocarbons) are produced (near 230 degrees Celsius).40 Although a comprehensive review of cannabis and health conducted by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine found "no conclusive evidence that marijuana causes cancer in humans, including cancers usually related to tobacco use,"41 studies have found that heavy cannabis smokers face a higher risk of contracting bronchitis and respiratory illnesses.42 This risk is likely not due to the inhalation of cannabinoids, but rather to the exposure of noxious smoke. Because vaporization can deliver therapeutic doses of cannabinoids while reducing the users intake of pyrolytic smoke compounds, it is considered to be a preferred and likely safer method of cannabis administration than smoking.43

In practice, cannabis vaporization offers considerable advantages over oral THC consumption. While the oral ingestion of Marinol avoids the potential risks of smoking, it has significant drawbacks. Because of synthetic THC's poor bioavailability, only 5-20 percent of an oral dose ever reaches the bloodstream44 and the drug may not achieve peak effect until four hours after dosing.45 Moreover, because Marinol is metabolized slowly, its therapeutic and psychoactive effects may be unpredictable and vary considerably, both from one person to another, and in the same person from one episode of use to another.46 By contrast, cannabis vaporization delivers cannabinoids to the bloodstream almost instantaneously.47 Vaporization's rapid onset also allows patients to self regulate their dosage of cannabinoids by immediately ceasing inhalation when/if their psychoactive effects become unpleasant.48

This is interesting to hear because the people who've been curing themselves of cancer, aids and other diseases with hash oil after receiving it from Rick Simpson or after seeing his documentary have done so by eating it. He says that ingesting it is what works best. I can see how there's an advantage to being able to regulate how high you get easier with the vaporizer but I wonder if it works as well for actually curing disease. Cause most people are unaware of how cannabis can actually cure all these serious ailments & mostly think of it as mainly a remedy for relief of symptoms rather than like replacing toxic poisonous 'treatments' like chemotherapy with it. I suspect that this might be the point of view that this article is coming from as it seems to be the mindset that most people even in the medicial cannabis movement have unfortunately.