Are torch lighters better for weed?

[glenn420]

Won't anyone read my post ??

I did and you've answered the original poster's question completely.


Here's a trick I use, if you havent thought of this, I recommend you try it.
The next time you're smoking out of a pipe with a normal lighter, try inhaling at a speed that pulls the flame towards the greens, but without letting the flame hit your greens. Hold for 7 seconds.

The perfect distance from flame to green, you pick up with practice.

 

[Sprinklervibes]

i find theyre good for getting a good cherry on a big bowl going, or sparking a joint. other then that they tend to be too hot

Actually not IME.. If you're high or aren't experienced with a torch it's very easy to fuck up the start of the joint as you just shred a hole in the joint before the place you want to actually light it. Which means you have to rip that piece of the joint as you can't hit it anymore.
It is good for extremely wet weed though, if your joint is running constantly. But I'd prefer not smoking such weed actually

 

[uacvax]

The thing with torch lighters is that you have to aim it at the bowl, unlike when you use a flame and suck it down to slowly burn bud. Perhaps as you were aiming down at the bowl, you also burned up some resin stuck in the hole.

 

[frizzantik]

lol a bic flame and a torch flame both will destroy thc

a high powered lighter may allow you to burn bowls quicker which for some will mean more smoke in their lungs. this could be a reason for a perception in increased high

 

[axl blaze]

the common weed etiquette around here is to stick to the bics. the non-disposables seem to either make the hit taste funky or are attatched with a weed-wasting stigma.

 

[herbnlife]

The thing with torch lighters is that you have to aim it at the bowl, unlike when you use a flame and suck it down to slowly burn bud. Perhaps as you were aiming down at the bowl, you also burned up some resin stuck in the hole.

I like this theory. As mentioned the much higher temp probably penetrated through into the sides of the bowl.

 

[ChemicalSmiles]

Yep^^

 

[`pr0digy]

It's no myth, high heat destroys THC, and butane burns at a much higher temp. than regular bic lighters. If I have no other choice I'll use a torch lighter, just hold the lighter way far back, so it takes awhile to light the weed.

 

[auzguy]

hehe, well, i like to use the jet lighters but i hold em away so it just starts to light.... ive been told the same that they waste ur smoke, but they just look to cool :D

 

[ScottyP]

lol silly reason, ya I stick to bics, prefer weed conservation to anything else.

 

[bZoP]

With a jet lighter, you feel higher because you are burning much more weed with every hit. However it ultimately wastes it because you burn the bowl so fast.

 

[Akoto]

lol a bic flame and a torch flame both will destroy thc

i cant see a bic destroying nearly as much as a torch asuming your using it right and not keeping the fire on the whole time.

 

[Cannabinol]

Well, they're pretty much usless unless it's a windy day, or you're trying to be stealth at night and not making that big flash from normal lighters. If your not in those 2 situations, using them would be worthless. A regular bic flame is already more than enough, you don't even have to touch the flame to the weed and it combusts.

 

[charlie horse]

You lose THC by burning weed with any lighter, a torch lighter would just cause more THC to be destroyed more quickly because of the greater temperature.

 

[hockyproz]

From personal experience, the torch lighters actually waste the weed

 

[stonedout]

i always use a regular lighter to light my shit, a torch lighter would burn up your bud.

 

[willywanka999]

To put it simply the more heat you apply to the buds the more thc they will realease unless you just completely instantly disinegrate it which would be next to impossible

 

[Xorkoth]

Smoking weed with any sort of fire wastes weed, but especially torch lighters. You'll waste none and get higher by using a vaporizer. A good one, like Vapor Brothers. Mine's been lasting twice as long as when I was smoking hitters only. Also, a single hit will get you very, very high, providing it's good nuggets you're using. Plus, not smoking it eliminates the only proven risk of consumption of cannabis. Plus, it tastes WAY better. And it still makes you cough because of the vapor expansion in your lungs.

So any way you look at it, it's a win

EDIT: And Willywanka, you're wrong. The more heat you apply, the more cannabinoids get destroyed by the heat. Weed has to be heated to a certain temperature (like 160-180 I believe) in order for the cannabinoids to be able to affect you, which is usually only a concern when eating it but is also automatically done during vaporization or smoking.