It seems like it woulf eliminate the risks of smoking or vaping, if THC could simply be inhaled like ventolin HFA or whatever

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    Cannabis vaporizers exist, and they are not the same thing as e-cigs or vape pens. They’re basically small ovens where you put a bit of weed. The heat detaches the cannabinoids which are then inhaled through some kind of straw.

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        26 days ago

        Oh OK, but I don’t really see the point, production would be much more complex and I don’t see how they’d be safer than vaporizers.

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          26 days ago

          Do you genuinely think still having to superheat something could ever be “safer” than something that simply aerosolizes the active ingredient without needing to screw with temperature at all?

          I’m being very unscientific and possibly even prejudicial here, but, really?

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            26 days ago

            I’m far from being an expert but from what I’ve read, if you stay within the recommended temperature range it’s perfectly safe.

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              Even so, it seems like regardless of how robust those findings are, heating stuff like this significantly higher temperatures than your own tissue and insides is less safe than something that could otherwise alternatively be simply aerosolized.

              Its literally being aerolized already by act of heating it in that way so i cant quite buy that its safer than something similarly aerosolized that is not altered in temperature at all, much less than in the way described

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                26 days ago

                Vaporizers have a cooling system, you’re not inhaling 180°C air. Coffee and tea are much hotter, for example. And I’m pretty sure aerosolizing natural THC would involve heating weed at some point (or not, talking out of my ass here).