Not to mention the whole Joe Camel thing, if you still remember. “You’re exposing yourself to all kinds of chemicals that we don’t yet understand and that are probably not safe.” “People need to understand that e-cigarettes are potentially dangerous to your health,” warns Blaha. Michael Blaha, director of clinical research at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, says, "There’s almost no doubt that vaping exposes you to fewer toxic chemicals than smoking traditional cigarettes." However, smoking itself is still bad for your heart and lungs. On the brighter side, going the smoke-free route with a vaporizer is considered “likely less harmful than smoking” marijuana. But we’d be negligent to not quickly run through the science of weed vaping. If you’re here, you’re likely already sold on vaping cannabis in one of its forms. These days, vapes can stick to one type of heating system or the other, but many market themselves as neither or both. On the other, convection vapes can take longer to fire up, so patience is a virtue. On one hand, your product won’t combust, and the vapor is more even and flavorful. Instead, very hot air from the heating element circulates through the vape with every pull, indirectly vaporizing the product.
With these, the weed product doesn’t come into direct contact with the heating element. (Simply shifting it around in the vape’s chamber is an easy fix.) Convection vapes tend to be more finicky and more expensive, but oftentimes are worth it for the vapor alone, especially if you prefer using dry herb.
However, if your product is too close to the heating element for too long, it’ll burn. To broadly summarize the tech of vaping in the least boring way possible, there are two kinds of vaporizer heating systems used to extract high-making chemicals and flavor from cannabis: one that uses conduction heating and one that uses convection heating.Ĭonduction heating puts your weed in direct contact with the vape’s heating element-like its coils-often getting you a faster heat time.