So I Want to Get a Vape

[tishaLA]

(a portable one)

I have been mulling this for a while now and I'm going to take the plunge in the next month or so. A little about my weed smoking: I only resumed smoking in the past year after at least 10 years away from it--perhaps more--and I don't smoke a ton of weed. I have friends who can go through 1/8 in a few days to a week; for me, it lasts the better part of a month (typically about 3 weeks); yes I am a lightweight who only takes a few hits and puts down my pipe for an hour or two. I tell you this because I don't really care whether the vape has amazing herb capacity.

I also only smoke "flowers," not oil sor anything else (although I've heard oils are great, so maybe I need to check that out too) and I want to be able to taste all the layers and textures of the weed I'm vaping.

I'm prepared to spend a reasonable sum on the vape, assuming it's really high quality. I have heard that the cheaper vapes aren't really vapes in the strictest sense because they still combust the weed and sometimes have parts that, when heated, can have potentially adverse health risks.

I'd initially thought about a PAX vape and, now that the PAX 2 is out, I could see myself getting that. Other possibilities are the Firefly. The Crafty has great reviews, but it's ~$340 and on principle alone I won't spend more on a vape than I'd spend on an ounce of top shelf weed. And there's a vape coming to the market soon--its release has been pushed back to July--called The Grasshopper. Its designers are engineers who raised money through indiegogo. The reviews of the prototype have been excellent and, best of all, it's a relative bargain at $135.

Do any of you DUers have suggestions? Things I might have overlooked? What do you use?