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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You’re talking about an e-liquid tank full of distillate, kind of like this, right?

    If you just filled it, you should just have to let it sit for a while - I left mine overnight before I hit it to let the distillate soak into the coils.

    If it worked for a while before dying, though, then the atomizer might have burned out. You can replace it, but you’ll have to empty and refill the tank, so it might be easiest to just empty it into a spare tank and use that one for a while.



  • Hm… Flower vapes certainly reduce the odor, but they do still smell a bit. If you’re looking for absolutely minimal smell, then vape carts and edibles are probably the way to go.

    That said, I’m by no means trying to discourage you from trying dry herb vaping! It smells way less than flower, and doesn’t linger the way that smoke does. I’d recommend against getting an expensive top-of-the-line flower vape to start with, though; a cheaper entry-level one is a good way to figure out if it suits your needs (and, if it does, to figure out what features you want to prioritize in a nicer one).




  • Honestly, it’s kind of like wine: the more kinds you try, the more you start to pick out the differences; and you can learn a lot about them without any sort of formal education.

    An easy way to do that is by starting a weed journal. When you pick up flower, write down the strain(s) that you got, and then when you smoke it, write down stuff like how it smells/tastes, or how it made you feel. Before too long, you’ll start to be able to pick out things that you liked (for instance, lemon and pine scents, giggly and calm effects) and things that you didn’t like (skunky smell, sort of a racy feeling, too sedative, etc.) about different strains.

    And, really, don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t work or takes a long time. When I picked up from a friend, I really couldn’t tell the difference between most of what they had; and when I picked up from a sketchy gray-market delivery service, there was more of a difference, but still nothing super substantial. It wasn’t until I’d been shopping at a dispensary for like six months that I realized that even though I “just liked weed,” I did actually have a preference for sativa-leaning hybrids with a fresh pine scent.


  • Yes and no.

    Your THC is always degrading into other minor cannabinoids, but it happens very slowly at room temperature. Heating it up will speed that reaction up, though not by a ton until it gets pretty dang hot (this is why bud that’s already been vaped tends to be very heavy in CBN). A week in a hot car probably didn’t do wonders for your preroll, but depending on where it was (direct sunlight or shade, in the glove box or on the floor, etc), the amount of actual heat that the preroll was exposed to could vary quite a bit (my center console stays weirdly cool, for instance, but the glovebox gets very hot), so I can’t say for sure if being left in the car degraded the THC.

    That said, terpenes are quite volatile, and tend to influence the entourage effect of the weed, so you also could have lost enough terps to potentially dull some of the week’s expected effects as well.