About Face: I Take A Look At Lotus’ Vaporizer
My experience with vaporizing cannabis goes all the way back to when I started using it in the first place. I had a crude lightbulb vape—kinda like this one here:
but slightly more advanced with vinyl tubing and a water filtration chamber. After a couple months of regular smoking with the lightbulb device, I decided that a convection-style vaporizer was needed.
Allow me here a brief digression into vaporizer basics. The lightbulb vape works conduction style, meaning that the heat is transmitted to the cannabis largely as it touches the hot glass. This is undesirable because it makes for very uneven heat distribution and it’s very easy to scorch the outer parts of your cannabis while leaving the inner parts merely warm. A convection-style vaporizer works by blowing hot air through your cannabis and thusly extracting the sweet volatile cannabinoids. Convection-style vaporizers are highly desired over their conduction-style brethren because the hits provided are smooth, fat and consistent. It’s also more difficult to scorch your bowl in these vaporizers. Now that the science has been explained, let’s move on. I didn’t want to buy an expensive convection-style vaporizer, so I decided to make one. Suffice it to say that the device (which went so far as to be prototyped and provide a single bagged hit to your dear author) had much potential but was abandoned due to a variety of negative externalities.
About six months after my tentative foray into high-end homemade vapes, I started hearing more and more about a particular device known as the vapor genie. If you don’t know what this is, give it a quick google and educate yourself—believe me, you’ll be glad you did. Anyway, I ordered a vapor genie and it served proudly as my primary instrument of stonage until the wooden threading on the bottom receiving part stripped away. I still have it and use it occasionally, but its greatest asset, extreme portability, is somewhat negated by the fact that the cannabis-containing headpiece tends to fall off if not kept oriented properly.
So, all in all, I have a respectable amount of experience with your basic, inexpensive vaporizer. What I did not have until yesterday, however, is an extreme respect for a whip-style vaporizers! There are a variety of them out there, but the one I speak of is known as Da Buddha, and it’s on loan from Lotus for editorial review. Until yesterday, the thought of adding another piece to my collection seemed unnecessary. Now, anything but smooth, electronically released vapor seems downright barbaric. This vaporizer is absolutely phenomenal. It’s insanely fun to load (you just inhale from the whip and vacuum the contents of your bowl into the proper place), extremely smooth, very consistent and easy to use. I’ll have to do a little more research into the vapor scene at large, but this is one vaporizer that I am seriously considering to buy!
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