Can I Get THC and CBD Cartridges?

Yes, you can. THC cartridges may be either sativa or indica dominant. In some cases, you can find cartridges with equal amounts of both. Furthermore, you can find cartridges filled with just CBD. Or, get a mixture of THC and CBD.

What’s the Difference Between Cannabis-Derived and Natural Terpenes?

An isolated terpene is just that - an isolated terpene. When looking at pinene from the cannabis plant versus a pine tree needle, the compound will look the same. While some believe natural or botanical terpenes are inferior to cannabis-derived terpenes, the compounds still aid in the entourage effect to enhance your experience with the strain consumed.

Are Vapes Strain Specific?

The majority of vapes are strain specific, though some may be flavored instead of providing strain-specific terpene profiles.

How Potent Are Cannabis Vapes?

Cannabis vapes are considered concentrated forms of the plant, but don’t let that scare you. Each dose of a vape is roughly 3-5 mg, making them a convenient, portable option for microdosing.

What Are Live Cannabis Vapes?

Live cannabis vapes use fresh cannabis flower, as opposed to dried and cured. The flower is flash frozen to preserve the compounds before creating the cannabis concentrate. Vapes made with live cannabis often have a strong flavor profile, making them ideal for seasoned cannabis users.

Can You Smoke Any Cannabis Oil?

Cannabis oil is an industry term that includes cannabis oils like Rick Simpson Oil and distillates. Distillate can be smoked using a dab rig, vaporized, or consumed orally. RSO and some other oils are heavy in plant matter and are not often recommended to smoke, but they can be vaped, applied topically, or ingested

Is a Vape Pen Different Than a Vape Battery?

A vape pen is the entirety of the electronic device used to heat, vaporize, and allow the inhalation of cannabis concentrates. This includes a vape cartridge containing cannabis concentrate, a mouthpiece, a coil to heat the liquid, and a battery. The battery component is typically attached seamlessly to the heating coil but must be screwed onto a compatible vape cartridge or refillable vape tank to produce cannabis vapor.

Is a Vape Cart Different Than a Pod?

Yes, but there are functional similarities between the two. A cartridge typically contains hemp-derived extract and must be accompanied by a battery, most often screwed into a 510 universal battery. Vape pods are also filled with derivative materials but may snap into place differently than a cartridge. Pod systems are often flat, while carts for vape pens are typically rounded to appear more like a traditional cigarette, but there are many different designs utilized by both types.

How Often Should I Charge My Vape Battery?

The answer to this question depends on a few factors, including your battery’s capacity, the type of vape pen you have, how often you use your vape pen, and more. For example, if you use your vape several times per day, you’ll likely need to charge at least once per day. If you use a type of device that forces your battery to work harder—like a dry flower vaporizer that requires more heat and more power than a typical vape cartridge vaporizer—you'll need to charge every day. More infrequent users may be able to go 4-5 days between charges.

Is Marijuana Vaping Safer Than Smoking?

Vaping cannabis instead of smoking eliminates the byproducts created during the process of combustion. The resulting vapor can be less irritating to the lungs than typical smoke, especially for those who are sensitive. Unfortunately, there is not enough research—and too many variables involved—to fully answer the question.

Are There Cannabis Vape Products With CBD?

There are options to purchase THC-dominant, CBD-dominant, or CBD-only marijuana vapes. However, keep in mind that you should not refill a reusable e-liquid tank with traditional CBD oil. Tanks are made to hold vape liquid and should only be used with compatible CBD e-liquid. Consider purchasing a pen and CBD carts instead.

How Often Should I Clean My Cannabis Vape?

Ideally, you should wipe your vape’s external components down with an alcohol cleaning wipe after each use. When it’s time to replace your cartridge or refill your tank, use wipes and a cotton swab soaked in isopropyl alcohol to thoroughly clean the inside of the tank (if applicable), the threads of the battery, and the mouthpiece. Replace the atomizer, if necessary, and let all parts dry thoroughly before reassembling with a fresh cart or tank.

Cannabis Vape Product FAQs

A Closer Look at
Marijuana Vape Products

Vaping cannabis is a way of consuming cannabis by inhaling vaporized cannabinoids. Vaping occurs at a lower temperature than smoking weed, which produces smoke containing hundreds of chemicals and toxins.

Vaping involves heating cannabis without a flame, using convection and conduction. This process regulates temperature so that the cannabis doesn’t burn and produce smoke. Vapor often imparts a fuller flavor and smoother inhale than smoke.

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Introduction

What are Cannabis Vapes?

Flower VS Concentrates

What Are Cannabis Vapes?

You can vaporize fresh cannabis flower using a dry herb vape device. You can also vape cannabis concentrates using a dabbing device or pre-filled vape cartridges. The cannabis industry borrowed an idea of vape carts from the nicotine industry, utilizing heat to change an oil contained in a cartridge to vapor for inhalation. The technology of vapes remains the same from nicotine to cannabis vapes… but the ingredients differ. Vapes may contain THC, CBD, and a variety of terpenes, all extracted from cannabis strains.

Vaping Flower Versus Concentrates

Flower is still the most popular cannabis product, but vaping flower has several advantages over smoking them. Vaping allows you to zero in on a strain’s flavor profile and unique characteristics. You won’t have to deal with smoke or lingering weed smell.

You can also adjust the temperature to get the most out of your flower, as different compounds have different decarboxylation temperatures.

Concentrate vaporizers, or e-rigs, allow you to dab easily. Dabs are an especially potent form of cannabis that can be taken by using a water attachment for smooth hits.

Concentrates are much stronger than flowers, with THC levels between 50-80%. Flower generally ranges from 15-25%, and sometimes higher, THC.

Best Temps for Vaping Cannabis

Despite the myth that the term “710” comes from dabbing at 710ºF, that is way too hot and you should never be dabbing or vaping at that temperature. To avoid compromising the terpene profiles of your fresh cannabis flower, your decide should be set to 325-430ºF.

Concentrates contain less plant material than fresh flower so you can heat your device a bit more than you would your flower, but we still recommend keeping it between 400-600ºF. Some might argue that when you go above 500ºF you compromise the full flavor spectrum and balance of cannabinoids and terpenes in your extracts.

Why Temperature Matters for Vaping

Trichomes: Cannabis flowers produce these tiny structures that pump out resin loaded with psychoactive and medicinal molecules.
It Can Be Manipulated: By modifying vaporization temperature, cannabis users can optimize the concentration of specific molecules in each hit.

CBG (cannabigerol): Offers painkilling and anti-inflammatory effects.

THCV (tetrahydrocannabivarin): Can help to suppress the effects of THC and may combat pain and inflammation.

CBC (cannebichromene): Appears to reduce swelling and preserve mammalian brain cells.

Common Types of Cannabis Vape Products

Although you can vaporize cannabis in a number of ways, the three most common are vaping extracted oil, vaporizing fresh flower or vaporizing cannabis concentrates (more on that in our Guide to Concentrates).

Devices for Dry Herb Vaping

Portable Dry Herb Vaporizers

These personal handheld devices are designed for vaporizing flower. An internal oven heats the cannabis to a precise temperature to produce vapor you can then inhale. Smoking makes you lose between 15%-20% of the potency of your herbs. Vaporizing, on the other hand, produces vapor at a much lower temperature, preserving all of the desired compounds of your herb. The result is vapor that is much purer, much stronger, and uses less flower per dose..

Tabletop Vaporizers

Also known as desktop vaporizers, tabletop vaporizers are cannabis vaporizing systems that require a flat surface to rest on - the most common in the industry is the Volcano. Tabletop vaporizers offer a power boost, with the added bonus of no charging, and potent results by eliminating the typical battery system and utilizing a wall outlet instead. Daily cannabis users can benefit from these features, but the benefits may come at the cost of portability and large space requirements.

Vape Products for Oil and Distillate

Vape Oil Cartridges

A cannabis vape cartridge is used in tandem with a vape pen. The vape pen’s battery heats the oil contained in the cartridge to a pre-set temperature, changing the oil from a viscous liquid to a vapor.

Vape Pen or Vape Battery

A cannabis cartridge requires a vape pen with a charged battery for proper use and effect. A vape pen is an electronic device that uses heat to vaporize THC distillate oil.
Cannabis cartridges usually screw onto the top of your vape pen’s battery while pods usually slide onto a compatible pen.

Traveler, All-In-One Vapes (Disposables)

Traveler, disposable vape pens deliver cannabis oil through a high-quality, ready to use system. These reliable products are typically free of buttons and offer the convenience of disposability. Traveler All-in-one portable vape pens are lightweight and discreet, perfect for on-the-go cannabis users.

Cannabis Vape Cartridge Types

Cannabis cartridges prefilled with cannabis oil are often simply referred to as “vape carts,” though not all vape carts contain the same product. Distillate is the most common vaping oil. A distillate is a type of cannabis oil - though like the adage all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares, all distillates are cannabis oils, but not all oils are distillates. To be classified as a distillate, the oil must be stripped of other materials and compounds—including terpenes—leaving mostly cannabinoids. There are many cannabis oil products on the market that have not undergone this refinement process.

Vape Distillates

As mentioned, distillate is a form of cannabis oil that has undergone a refining process to remove most other compounds. The remaining product contains the specific desired cannabinoid and can reach levels of purity as high as 99% THC. Terpenes may be infused back into the final distillate product to create a strain-specific experience.

Sauce Carts

Sauce is a viscous cannabis product —THCA crystals are present in the extract, but the terpene sauce is prominent, and where the concentrate gets its name. This cannabis extract has a strong terpene aroma and is known for the full-flavor, strain-like experience it provides.

CO2 Cartridges

CO2 oil is a type of cannabis oil extracted by using liquid carbon dioxide. CO2 can be used to create cannabis cartridges, or further manipulated to create shatter, crumble and other cannabis concentrates.

Live Resin Carts

Live resin is a type of full spectrum oil that is crafted from flash-frozen marijuana buds to preserve maximum terpene levels. It is a high-terpene live hash oil that provides a full blast of scent and flavor reminiscent of the original plant. This product can be found in cartridge form and vaped like other types of cannabis extracts.

Solventless Rosin Cartridges

The highest quality of vape cartridges, rosin stands out in the cannabis oil vape market. The oil is made without using solvents during the extraction and purification process; trichomes, the small hair-like structures on cannabis flower where cannabinoids and terpenes are produced, are collected. These beneficial plant compounds are extracted using only heat and pressure, creating a solventless vape option that tastes like the strain it was extracted from. You’ll find solventless rosin cartridges at only the highest quality dispensaries.