![]() Who doesn't want to be more interested? Who couldn't use being more focused and "zoned in"? Who has consumed cannabis (or cocktails, for that matter) and not had the occasional unreliable experience where they wished the result was less head-foggy, with more ability to hold down a conversation? Maybe Volodarsky was on to something with this no CBN thing. I'm more interested." He described the effect as "zoning in." ![]() When you're consuming concentrate, you're leaving behind CBN, which is known for making you sleepy and disassociated. "That's one slim shade of cannabis, and not a fraction of the experience of dabbing. ![]() "That's likely THC distillate in your vape pen," Volodarsky said dismissively when I made the comparison. And he thinks people like me have greatly misunderstood the effects and the benefits of dabbing. He's the Johnny Appleseed of solid concentrate. But more than the Steve Jobs of rig design, Volodarsky sees himself as a dabbing evangelist. Price notwithstanding, the Peak has been getting rave reviews all year, including the ultimate design distinction of being compared to an iPhone. Volodarsky created the Puffco Peak, a small push-button "smart rig" that "removes the stigma and the learning curve from dabbing," he says (and makes you pay $380 for the privilege - far cheaper than the average rig, still pricy for the average consumer). Then I interviewed Roger Volodarsky, the Los Angeles-based founder CEO of Puffco, who assured me it was most definitely not the same effect. Besides, why bother if it's the same effect as a vape pen? Getting high around large hot pointy objects? Yeah, that's a big fat nope from me. I'd even heard of dabbers placing concentrate between red hot kitchen knives. They use blowtorches, albeit indirectly, and vape their solid concentrate on a "nail" or an "e-nail." They spend hundreds of dollars on butane alone. The solid version unadulterated by oil may be a little healthier because you don’t add anything in the extraction process, but dabbing has historically involved a cumbersome, daunting industrial setup.ĭabbers own "rigs" that look like they belong in the lair of an evil scientist. The pens heat liquid cannabis concentrate (added to various kinds of oil) very fast to create vapor, whereas dabbing is simply about heating solid cannabis concentrate very fast to create vapor. The rhyme and reason of rigsįrom a chemistry-class perspective, dabbing and vaping are almost the same thing. Because it turns out dabbing is a lot closer to downing a double espresso than chugging martinis. Until last week, like a lot of people, I would have described dabbing as the crack-smoking of weed the thing you do if you want to get seriously messed up, like downing a pitcher of a particularly strong cocktail.īut I also would have had no idea what I was talking about. Then at the other end of the spectrum, there's dabbing. How vape pens allow you to better manage your high It's fair to say I am familiar with (and respectful of) pens and cocktails in equal measure. In a few short years of legalization, vape pens have become the cocktails of weed: pretty, classy, concentrated, available in many intriguing varieties, dinner-party friendly a nice little sippable pick-me-up, presuming you don't have too much. Pens are not the preserve of stoner stereotypes, either: Walk through the Financial District of San Francisco on a sunny day after work, and at the outdoor tables of wine bars and pubs alike, you'll easily spot dozens of those slim, telltale cartridges being casually withdrawn from suit jackets and purses for a politely discreet two-second sip. (They're certainly more widespread than bears. It's 2018, and marijuana vape pens are so common in California they may as well be on the state flag. states, Canada, and Uruguay moves the market further out of the shadows. ![]() This post is part of our High-tech High series, which explores weed innovations, and our cultural relationship with cannabis, as legalization in several U.S.
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