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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
smoke is a particulate, solids and liquids, being held aloft by the air vapor. Two different things man.
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You forget that smoke contains vapor
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when you smoke by burning or a heating element, you are inhaling tiny pieces ( which while small are way way bigger than the pieces that constitute a vapor)
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That is not entirely accurate, the psychoactive molecules also exist as particles, and condense back to such when cooled from their vapor state in the lungs. The lungs then absorb these psychoactive tars and sends them into the blood stream. The difference again between smoke and vapor is the content, not the structure. Smoke IS vapor, but its muddied by more sooty particles.
While they don't have hydrocarbons, if you "vaped" tobacco smoke, it would be just about as carcinogenic as smoking it, because again, tobacco contains dozens of naturally occuring carinogenic and even radioactive substances, all of which vaporize into the smoke and are inhaled. What makes it "smoke" is the amount of soot and ash blended with the water vapors (water vapors are the "white" of the smoke, in other words, steam).
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
In a 2001 study, [18] researchers found that "it is possible to vaporize medically active THC by heating marijuana to a temperature short of the point of combustion, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing harmful smoke toxins that are normally present in marijuana smoke." The unit produced THC at a temperature of 185 °C (365 °F), while eliminating three measured combustion products, benzene, toluene and naphthalene. Carbon monoxide and smoke tars were also reduced, but not quantified. |
Yes, those handful of hydrocarons are the only measurable carcinogens in herbs smoke, however, the question is not their pressence, but their over all concentration. These hydrocarbons in most "joints" let alone just bowls in glass are negligible in their numbers, safer than breathing the air outside in most cities and even in most houses