soooo turns out vapes have a chemical in them which is also in popcorn butter flavoring. no biggie if you're eating popcorn, but standing in the popcorn factory and inhaling the stuff can give you an irreversible lung tissue damage called "popcorn lung" and now they've started to find it in vape users.
that's permanent lung damage!
I freaking told you all it wasn't "safer" than smoking and that it just looked that way because vaping was new and nobody had been vaping long enough to find out what would happen. well here's the first thing.
it we still have another 50+ years to go to find out how much worse it gets.
@Zest I use a portable refillable electric dab rig, or "vape", I get the good wax, I hate mass marketization of cannabis. People bitched this would happen but I always knew the good stuff would still be around for people who knew about it. Pain in the ass about it is it needs to be thoroughly cleaned after every other use or it'll overflow with reclaim and would probably get gummed up.
I wonder if THC inhalers have all the adulterants found in the vape cartridges. I wish my dispensary had them.
@Katie @Zest Why would they? Mine is made of metal, and high temp silicone for the mouth piece and cap. There's no taste when it's clean and heated up, it's basically a hot air machine if there's no wax in the crucible. But put some in and heat it up and it all evaporates and can be inhaled. I just kind of worry also about this shit accumulating on the walls of my lungs, I know studies show that when a weed smoker stops their lungs go back to normal unlike with tobacco smokers, meaning the body isn't permanently damaged but I have a hard time breathing even though I'm in good shape and have some muscle tone, I think my lungs are shellaced or lacquered in this shit, imagine the most sticky gooey glue that's not hard but stays tacky, that's what concentrate vapor recondenses into, and if it's in the lungs well then it's going to recondense on the lung walls.......clogging the little air holes the lungs use to exchange gas :(
@Jazzy_Butts @Katie
ok so first of all, your lungs aren't going to do that. second, yeah if your lungs and airways are starting to feel gunked up it's time for a break, sorry to say.
@Jazzy_Butts
this is true, you can even vape strait up marijuana buds. but definitely make sure you know what's in your shit! even though the thc vape carts have their cannibanoids and terps listed, they don't have all chemicals written, so to vape relatively safely you need to do some actual research.