Marijuana - whether medical or not - is inching its way toward broader legalization across North America, and perhaps around the world. This could lead people who are interested in imbibing but not keen on inhaling carcinogens to look at vapourizer technology, much in the way some tobacco smokers are moving toward e-cigarettes as a way to ingest their favourite herbs cleanly and with less telltale odour than they get when smoking the evil weed (whichever evil weed it might be)
Late last year I did a column outlining in its most basic terms the issue of marijuana use, and in the process I introduced a few of the popular vapourizers available on the marketplace today. In that column I assembled a group of baby boomers I know, folks who've been "imbibing" the still-illegal substance for decades and who are (surprisingly to some folks, I'm sure) productive members of society who just happen to enjoy the odd toke. They provided me with valuable insight and opinions, most of which were very positive of the vaping experience.
On the heels of that column I was sent samples of a couple of other - and very different from each other - vapourizers, so over the past few weeks I reassembled my panel to get their impressions (and no, Rich Little wasn't one of them) of these new units, one of which had the potential to be the slickest little portable they'd seen. The other vapourizer isn't portable at all, but my panellists discovered it has its own joyful positives that made it a real, well, hit.
Let's get the more negative review out of the way first.
