I like to vaporize with my big old glass pipe. How? Well, it has to be indoors (or outside with no wind) or the heat from the lighter gets dispersed too much. And you have to have grinded your bud or at least picked it apart into small pieces.

I hold the flame about a half-inch to an inch from the bowl. I inhale fairly hard until I see the bud start to "crinkle" and turn a little brown ("crinkle", not "crackle"... you're not listening for a sound; it should just sort of start to shift and bend from the heat a little bit). Then I keep inhaling, but now it is more slowly. At that point I'm getting nothing but vapors.

I then mix the bowl a little to get the greener pieces to the top, and repeat. I get like 5-7 hits off a small bowl from this, and get high as fuck. By the time I'm done the weed looks like it does when it comes out of a vaporizer (brown and mostly used with very little THC left in it). Then, if I feel like getting bronchitis I'll go ahead and light the toasted leftovers on fire and inhale the smoke. Otherwise I'll just ditch them and perhaps pack another bowl.

I love vaporizing this way b/c I don't get a cough (I have sensitive lungs and don't smoke cigarettes) and don't have to spend money on a "vaporizer". Plus each hit tastes like that "first hit" (like the smell of fresh bud).

Yeah... I'm a little unusual. I also smoke like once a week, twice at the most. And I've had a quarter last me 9 months. Granted it was medical grade trainwreck, but nonetheless... that's a long freakin' time. I'm also a poor grad student so that may have something to do with it.