Hi again,
Years ago i tried to develop my opinion on the benefits/necessity to promote "
better social acceptability" besides "
Harm Reduction" - which in the later case now corresponds to "
Vilification Reduction" instead (as i much prefer this alternate expression once put in retrospective)... Texts/pictures collections gradually disapear and even a lot of boards with it, so the vocabulary being made specific & pre-emptive only eases future searches, while there's always going to be denial/rejection based on a virtual identity and its associated style, in place of content marked with my own personal ways of indexation. Yet it's not generally intended to seem elitist at all, just resist the passage of time.
Relatively to question #3 (about
Consumption Method & Ritual) it reminds me of that same "acceptability" aspect actually refering back to at least mid-2016, trying to offer 1st-person perspectives through the VaporGenie pipe transformed into some "Prototyping Platform", pointlessly of course as there's never been 1 single emulation attempted... Since then more fancy tag-words emerged as "Micro-Bursting", "Pulse Heating" and "Packetization" of a "Heat Charge", etc. All boiling down to acquiring improved dosing control.
Meanwhile the average trend revolved around "monster toking" displays and yet coercitive/prohibitionist attitudes just don't appeal to me: consumers should be allowed to make their own choices and that's why i reasoned long ago that consumption tools must address acceptability concerns from *ALL* sides, well aware that the FCTC/COP6 event of 2014 might have come with potential domino effects, finally leading to a vape ban today... In other words my argument used to be that we would have been better served to perform adjustements ourselves rather than wait for bigots to fix it for us.
With all that cleared, lets have a closer look at the cigarette/"joint" format democratized by James Albert Bonsack in the early 1880s!
1st of all that's most convenient (by Victorian-age standards...) since its rolling-paper happens to fulfill multiple functions:
a) Self-adjusting variable-length containment of the inhalation path...
b) Rudimentary self-regulation (dosing) of stream density
c) Contribution to a disposable power source
d) Most economical accessibility
On another hand it turns out young persons initiating to cannabis (like "joint" smokers) only enjoy some approximative dosing features at the cost of also capturing poisonous by-products from vegetal combustion via that same paper tube. Here's a fresh remake of a much older snapshot illustrating the best alternative available to me decades ago:
As a former smoker myself i eventually managed to find this "cool" ready-made "finished product" labelled as "
TOKEU", still depending on the "joint" format inside. Juxtaposed to that there's my early 2017 Customized VG Pipe identified as "
VAPO", with one major difference being that "
more with less" is no deceiving mirage anymore.
Besides the gross smell of such tokeu (paraphernalia) i also obtained a bogus sense of "
dosing", although loadind it with
hashish + fine blond Drum tobacco; not to mention at some point i even tried sub-division markings performed on the paper itself... This became increasingly frustrating when i started to worry about finding fair equilibrium between the number of doses vs wasted material during (re-)ignition(s). Which i wrongfully perceived as "progress" comparatively to burning a whole ~300 mg "spliff" made of dry leaves alone.
It was pure luck which caused me to discover vaporism years after i gave up the habit in mid-2007, previously thinking i'd never enjoy cannabis again. For my 1st vaporizer i chose the HerbalAire, a decent product though it made me want to empty every single bag after staring at those for 2 ~ 3 long minutes, then 6 months later early hints of trouble (on top of tolerance issues) emerged again... In either cases none of the consumption methods & associated rituals truly invited
opportunities to explore dosing scenarios other than what leads to a couch-lock, ultimately. That's why i tweaked the "Prototyping Platform" until it supported a wide inclusive range of applications not excluding party missions, while also paving the way to less extreme behaviours as "Micro-Dosing", etc.
Who ever pretended you have? It's about the absence of suitable dosing for cannabis while alcohol usually comes with a reasonably-sized glass in most households!...
In other words the "dangers" of cannabis begin with a faulty landscape politically decided by a society itself turned socio-toxic and that's why it would have been quite a good idea to fix this before the bigots pretend doing it using cobalt-60 irradiation and savvy synergy-boosted PCP soups applied to "Tumble" mari-caca... Etc., etc.
Good day, have fun!!
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Yes. But when my kidneys magically repair I’ll stop. Until then, it is my drug of choice to control nausea, aches and pains and ramp up the appetite. I use it 10+ times a day. I am not working, have very good income, pay my bills first, etc. Currently using an oz every 2 weeks.
