"I can't quote it exactly, but this is close, "A significant quantity of benzene was found to be produced over 400f." It's from one of the vaporizer studies, griggs maybe? That name jumps out at me. Defeats the purpose to go past about 6.25 or maybe a little higher as I do as I suspect that my heating element is producing less heat than it used to; after 3 years of daily usage."
I would be interested to know the source of the 400f number, but if so, I will make sure to not go higher than 7.5-8 I guess.
"Czar420, I'm among a sizeable minority that find a vaporizer high incomplete. Like a weak spaghetti sauce that's missing a few key seasonings, a vaporizer high is intense in the effects it does produce, but lacking entirely in a number of the ones I look forward to when I smoke. I find it to be an exclusively mental high, for one, with little or no sillies."
I still don't understand people who prefer smoking over vaping, especially when you are paying the insane US prices for good herb these days. THC has the highest vaporization temperature of all the cannibinoids, so the high is very complete. I think maybe the smoking high is the incomplete one. Now if you told me it was smoking culture you preferred over vapor whips/vapor bags, I could understand that.
"^ I don't understand how some people seem to have no effect from the vaporizer. MOST of my friends that come by LOVE to use the vap because I'm the only one around here that has one and it gets us high as fuck! I do have a couple of friends that will sit around during the vap session and by the end of it I'm blazed and they will tell me that it didnt work. I wonder if they are just not holding it in deep enough or something? Also, has anyone noticed how the oil builds up over time in the whip? I believe it is the results of the vapor condensing correct? Does this not happen in the lungs as well then? I'd love to cough up a bunch of oil and re-vape it. lol"
Yes, it is essentially condensed vapor. I usually scrape it off my volcano after a few months, take a glass bowl, plug the hole with a small nug, and top it off with this "vapor hash" as I call it. Stuff gets me lit like nothing else, as good or better than bubble hash.