Hello fellow tokers and growers, I have a question to pose about the possible health hazards one might face vaping or smoking buds harvested from female cannabis plants that were showing tiny numbers of hermaphrodite "bananas" with a few opened male flowers at the time of harvest.
Over the past few years in my small-scale personal consumption grow site deep in the swamp here, I stumbled on a way to produce feminized seeds pretty much by accident, and that method turned out to be simply using the seeds from primarily female flowers, blooming on plants that also showed a few, but not many, scattered male pollen sacs.
In the past, smoking cured buds from such hermie plants never produced any adverse reaction, BUT, when I recently tried to move from smoking to vaping, I suffered a very unpleasant reaction that left me gasping for breath, with the absolute worst case of a sore throat and swollen tonsils that I have EVER experienced in my life.
Before venturing into the vaping world, I conducted extensive research online, reading up on the pros and cons of various vaporizers that are currently available on the market, before finally settling on buying the Airizer Air portable vaporizer.
Proceeding under the completely WRONG assumption that vaping is by definition safer than smoking weed, I recklessly went ahead and took massive hits from my new Airizer Air vaporizer, for a couple of days in a row, before I started to discover I had made a grave error that could have turned out fatal.
In short, the high temperature and dryness of the vapor produced by my new Airizer vaporizer wreaked havoc on my respiratory tract, causing me serious pain and discomfort when I tried to swallow, while also clogging up my sinuses like I have NEVER experienced in my entire life.
I stopped vaping right away, but the infection spread to my lungs, and after I woke up in the dead of night gasping for breath, I rushed to a hospital where I was prescribed antibiotics and anti-histamines which brought me back to where I could breathe again without the effort and discomfort that all began when I tried my hand at vaping.
Not entirely convinced that my breathing problem was caused by the vaping alone, I began reading up in the Fuck Combustion website's medical sub-forum, where I spotted an account by a vaporizer user who described the health hazards of vaping buds which contain pollen sacs, and that got me wondering whether my consumption of female flowers that bore a few scattered pollen sacs was in fact the reason for my health scare, and not necessarily the fact that I was vaping for the first time ever.
I must add that I have smoked my slightly hermied buds for the past couple of years with NO health issues resultant at any stage, yet when I went and tried to vape those same buds, I got sick as a dog, and stayed that way for two solid weeks until the symptoms mercifully abated.
My primary reason for trying vaping was the much less noticeable smell of vaping, in comparison to smoking, with the health benefits of vaping only a secondary consideration, but now, after that scare I had, I am seriously thinking that perhaps vaping is not beneficial to the health of ALL who try the method, and that maybe I ought to stay with toking in the old school way, which has served me well for many years.
So, I guess my question here is whether any other IC mag members have experienced adverse health consequences from slightly hermie, pollen-bearing buds that were either smoked or vaped. On the subject of vaporizers in general I am really curious to hear from anyone who may have experienced adverse reaction to vaporizing buds, such that they were forced to revert to old-school smoking, due to throat irritation caused by the dryness, heat, or perhaps even the composition of vapor.
If it turns out that the trace amounts of pollen in my bud is the cause of my health scare, then I may try again to vape weed with my Airizer, but with the added precaution of using a bubbler filled to substantial water depth to better "scrub" and cool the vapor before inhalation. For such an experiment I also intend to stuff a moistened cotton ball into the glass vaporizer mouthpiece, to trap any microscopic particulates that manage to make it through the water bubbler.
Any feedback at all on this subject would be much appreciated. I really like the look and feel of my new Airizer Vaporizer, BUT, if it turns out that I am one of the unlucky few that are incapable of safely using any vaporizer for weed consumption, then for sure I won't push my luck and venture away from smoking and into vaping at any time in the future.
As a final question, if pollen is indeed the likely culprit in my home grown buds, can I eliminate the associated health risks simply by making canna coconut oil from my harvest, and using that for cookies and such, where I would be able to stop smoking OR vaping outright, yet still find a safe way to ingest the fruits of my gardening labor.
Thanks in advance for any advice that can be offered to shed light on this medical mystery.
Over the past few years in my small-scale personal consumption grow site deep in the swamp here, I stumbled on a way to produce feminized seeds pretty much by accident, and that method turned out to be simply using the seeds from primarily female flowers, blooming on plants that also showed a few, but not many, scattered male pollen sacs.
In the past, smoking cured buds from such hermie plants never produced any adverse reaction, BUT, when I recently tried to move from smoking to vaping, I suffered a very unpleasant reaction that left me gasping for breath, with the absolute worst case of a sore throat and swollen tonsils that I have EVER experienced in my life.
Before venturing into the vaping world, I conducted extensive research online, reading up on the pros and cons of various vaporizers that are currently available on the market, before finally settling on buying the Airizer Air portable vaporizer.
Proceeding under the completely WRONG assumption that vaping is by definition safer than smoking weed, I recklessly went ahead and took massive hits from my new Airizer Air vaporizer, for a couple of days in a row, before I started to discover I had made a grave error that could have turned out fatal.
In short, the high temperature and dryness of the vapor produced by my new Airizer vaporizer wreaked havoc on my respiratory tract, causing me serious pain and discomfort when I tried to swallow, while also clogging up my sinuses like I have NEVER experienced in my entire life.
I stopped vaping right away, but the infection spread to my lungs, and after I woke up in the dead of night gasping for breath, I rushed to a hospital where I was prescribed antibiotics and anti-histamines which brought me back to where I could breathe again without the effort and discomfort that all began when I tried my hand at vaping.
Not entirely convinced that my breathing problem was caused by the vaping alone, I began reading up in the Fuck Combustion website's medical sub-forum, where I spotted an account by a vaporizer user who described the health hazards of vaping buds which contain pollen sacs, and that got me wondering whether my consumption of female flowers that bore a few scattered pollen sacs was in fact the reason for my health scare, and not necessarily the fact that I was vaping for the first time ever.
I must add that I have smoked my slightly hermied buds for the past couple of years with NO health issues resultant at any stage, yet when I went and tried to vape those same buds, I got sick as a dog, and stayed that way for two solid weeks until the symptoms mercifully abated.
My primary reason for trying vaping was the much less noticeable smell of vaping, in comparison to smoking, with the health benefits of vaping only a secondary consideration, but now, after that scare I had, I am seriously thinking that perhaps vaping is not beneficial to the health of ALL who try the method, and that maybe I ought to stay with toking in the old school way, which has served me well for many years.
So, I guess my question here is whether any other IC mag members have experienced adverse health consequences from slightly hermie, pollen-bearing buds that were either smoked or vaped. On the subject of vaporizers in general I am really curious to hear from anyone who may have experienced adverse reaction to vaporizing buds, such that they were forced to revert to old-school smoking, due to throat irritation caused by the dryness, heat, or perhaps even the composition of vapor.
If it turns out that the trace amounts of pollen in my bud is the cause of my health scare, then I may try again to vape weed with my Airizer, but with the added precaution of using a bubbler filled to substantial water depth to better "scrub" and cool the vapor before inhalation. For such an experiment I also intend to stuff a moistened cotton ball into the glass vaporizer mouthpiece, to trap any microscopic particulates that manage to make it through the water bubbler.
Any feedback at all on this subject would be much appreciated. I really like the look and feel of my new Airizer Vaporizer, BUT, if it turns out that I am one of the unlucky few that are incapable of safely using any vaporizer for weed consumption, then for sure I won't push my luck and venture away from smoking and into vaping at any time in the future.
As a final question, if pollen is indeed the likely culprit in my home grown buds, can I eliminate the associated health risks simply by making canna coconut oil from my harvest, and using that for cookies and such, where I would be able to stop smoking OR vaping outright, yet still find a safe way to ingest the fruits of my gardening labor.
Thanks in advance for any advice that can be offered to shed light on this medical mystery.
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