Pubdate: Thu, 28 May 2015
Source: Westword (Denver, CO)
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Author: Herbert Fuego
Column: Ask A Stoner

WHAT CAN I DO WITH MY VAPED WEED?

Dear Stoner: I've had a vaporizer for almost a year now and have a 
buttload of golden-brown vaped weed saved up. Is there anything I can 
do with it, or have I been wasting my energy?

Nicholas

Dear Nicholas: If your vaporizer isn't turning your flower black, it 
might eventually pay for itself. Although it looks dead and useless, 
vaped cannabis still has a low percentage of THC and some 
cannabinoids left over. Besides giving it to your scavenger friends 
who never have money to pitch in, you can use your vaped pot to make 
hash or edibles if you're not burning it too hot.

Brown pot butter isn't as visually appealing as the green stuff, but 
it'll definitely get the job done. If your vaped product is golden or 
brown, it's about a quarter as strong as it originally was. Save up 
at least an ounce to infuse with a half-pound of butter or one cup of 
olive oil, and you'll be surprised at how potent it is. Extracting 
THC with 99 percent isopropyl alcohol for some qwiso (quickwash 
isopropyl) hash is also an option, but it requires patience and 
research, and is not for beginners. It also requires a ton of vaped 
weed to make it worthwhile, so start studying and saving up now if 
you're interested.

Dear Stoner: I buy cartridges for my hash pen for the convenience and 
steady high it gives me, but the damn things keep leaking in my 
pocket. Are the products just made poorly, or am I doing something wrong?

Mrs. Puff

Dear Mrs. Puff: It could be both. The quality control of hash-pen 
cartridges is still a work in progress, and it's not uncommon to see 
bins of faulty cartridges marked down on dispensary shelves thanks to 
leaking containers. The mixture of hash oil and polyethylene glycol - 
a vaping liquid used to dilute the hash oil - is tricky for some new 
manufacturers, but O.penVape seems to have figured it out; the 
company's cartridges rarely leak.

But there are steps you can take to keep a cartridge from leaking. 
Don't leave it in your car, especially during summer: The heat will 
thin the liquid and the cartridge will leak. Take a cartridge out 
when you're not using it; they've been known to leak if screwed in 
24/7. Make sure you have the right battery: Some e-cig batteries burn 
too hot or permanently pierce the cartridges. And finally, stop 
turning them upside down: That silicone stopper is made to stop 
leaking, but if condoms aren't fail-safe, then nothing is.
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