Smoking pure cannabis resin (hash) vs. vaporizing

[prairieplantsystems]

Oh, and I just realized that you got your definition of vaporization wrong, I guess thats what everyone else was saying. Vaporization is done by either passing hot air over bud to boil off THC into a gaseous form to be inhaled or by directly heating it without exposing it to flame (both of which prevent the plant matter from burning nearly as much so it doesn't release as many chemicals/tar).

I think all of you need some clarification here. THC is a molecule, a chemical structure. It is the main component of the cannabis resin that you will feel an effect from, but there are many others (61 identified I believe). The resin is what gets you "high", no one "smokes" THC.

When you spark a joint, you burn the plant material the bud is made of and consequently has the most resin on it. "Resin" is what the trichomes are made of, if you don't know what a trichome is please don't reply to this thread. When you vaporize your bud, you heat it at around 380 degrees farenheit, in order for the resin in trichome form to evaporate but still cool enough for the plant matter not to combust.

When you smoke hash you heat a glob of resin which is a mass of trichomes stuck together.

I see confusion may exists on what hash is. Kief is hash, but to my understanding kief is hash made by breaking off the trichomes from your bud (or leaf) by using a screen and bouncing/scraping the dry plant material on it. "kief" would be a lot less pure because this method causes much more plant material to get mixed with the resin. In this case I mean water extracted hash which can attain a very high purity if done correctly.

Assuming the hash is 100% pure (hypothetically, since this would be next to impossible but lets assume for the sake of argument)

I didn't say this for nothing, this is a hypothetical question, but cold water extracted hash can actually be very close to 100% purity.

My opinion is that it is very similar, the differences are when you smoke your hash you run the risk of inhaling butane fumes, the smoke is hotter but besides this the two processes are similar. I want to know your opinion (as long as you fully understand what I'm talking about)

prairieplantsystems Reviewed by prairieplantsystems on 02-05-2008. Smoking pure cannabis resin (hash) vs. vaporizing Ok, if vaporizing is simply smoking evaporated cannabis resin, is smoking pure cold water extracted hash the same thing? Assuming the hash is 100% pure (hypothetically since this would be next to impossible but lets assume for the sake of argument) you are evaporating a bloc of pure resin when you smoke it. The same process goes on in your vaporizer when you heat your bud, evaporating the resin found on the plant material no? I just though I would get your opinion on this. Rating: 5