got my "vaporizer cherry" broke last night

i smoked bud out of a vaporizer for the very first time last night. it was a cool experience. now i see what all the hype is about. i didn't know that the vapor doesn't go stale like smoke does first off. that's cool, just vape a bag and hit it whenever.

i REALLY liked the taste. that surprised me because the 1st reports i read when it 1st came out said it cuts the flavor. hooey! it tastes great. you get the taste of exactly what a bud smells like. it tastes soooo clean! yum yum!

the bud was nice too. i tell ya, smokers out here in oregon have their shit wired tight! buds back east are ALL couchlock but out here, all 4 times that i've smoked have been clearheaded and alert. THAT'S what i'm talkin' 'bout!

dude didn't know what the variety was, but it smelled green and piney, kinda like thai used to and not skunky or strong.

i must be building some tolerance because i must have had 6-7 hits over a couple hours and wasn't spaced out, couchlocked and i didn't even come close to woofing even when i took an 80% vape hit. i did feel a bit of throat itch, but i could still hold it. the other time, i was taking about 50% hits just to be safe because last month, two light pipe hits and one deep bong hit made me woof so bad i puked and got the dizzies.

now i've smoked weed about every way you can except wrapped in leaf. done bongs (my old favorite... i like vaporizers now), bowls, doobies and the most hideous and disgusting way... blunts. blunts are evil! vaporizers are pure!

 

OK... there must be something to the whole cannaboid conversion thing then. the person i vaped with told me he never gets couchlocked of his vaporizer which i just took for anecdotal BS. now that i see a second opinion on it, i'm thinking maybe there's something to it.

as to getting my own, dude wants to sell me his old school globe for just $30! i'd say that's a worthwhile investment, but i'm not going to buy it until i have something toput in it.

i've been dry as fock the past 3-4 years! the ONLY time i smoked two and 3 years ago was when a buddy would give me X-mas eigths and in the past year, i was doing leaflet trim in my closet shoplight grow for a couple months and other than that have toked just 4 more times.

2 months ago, my piss would have been cleaner than a newborn! no kidding.

that's why i got so stoked about vaping. it was almost as good as getting laid. now i gotta work on that too. LOL

 

hey... here's an idea for a DIY vaporizer i'd like to run by the experts. i actually had this idea a year ago when i was thinking of converting a steel saucepan, but then eventually came up with the idea of using ready made scientific gear like my home bong... a double holded rubber stopper with fishtank airline in one hole for the mouth piece and a bowl adapter similar in use to the glass "thistle tube" in the following pic
http://www.indigo.com/glass/gphglass/thistle.html

basically, my bong is a wine bottle set up like this gas generating bottle
http://www.canadascientific.com/navigation/detail.asp?MySessionID=343-209827973&CatID=19&id=5597

but using fishtank airline and a standard threaded bowl. OK, now picture that setup inside a BEAKER, you know, the glass bottle that looks like a regular funnel turned upside down. then, get rid of the bowl, put some bud inside and use your STOVE as the heating element! you can dial in the right temp and pretty much do the same thing as a vaporizer for next to nothing!

it would be alot clunkier, care would be needed so as not to burn yourself, and i'd imagine you'd have to wait for a cool down before inhaling unless you piped into ANOTHER BOTTLE for a vaporbong hybrid as the air inside would be hotter than a vaporizer.

basically though, you could vaporize using cheap off the shelf parts and if you're really into diy, build your own air chamber, maybe some kind of piston.

i thought of the idea because all i'd need to do it would be to buy a flat bottom beaker. i don't think the wine bottle i use would be too practical

what do you think?

 

if you REALLY want to get the lowdown on vaporizing, there's a forum SPECIFICALLY dedicated to them. i'll see if i can find a URL for it to post here. i saw it last year and they had alot of activity & comparisons.

hmm... there might be more than one, this is happyvappy, but it doesn't look or sound like the one i visited. there may be more
http://forum.happyvappy.com/index.php?sid=958259ec32fdb0c002cdb417d8e87442

vaporinfo is a small budding (sorry for the pun) forum
http://www.vaporinfo.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1

here's a pretty active vape forum at marijuana.com
http://www.marijuana.com/vaporizers/

here's a DIY vaporizer
http://www.happyhippie.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-1236.html

here's a list of allegedly FAKE vaporizer review sites, but you have to retype the URLs in your browser because the "fake sites" probably won't accept hotlinks from it
http://www.ezilon.com/cgi-bin/jump/jump_forum.cgi?action=view&topic_id=93604

well, i didn't find the forum i stumbled across before, but there's a few links for anyone looking to get specifics