The tech in these - high-power electronics, computer controlled heating profiles etc is quite sophisticated.
Societal evils aside, this could be a very precise drug-delivery system that can be cheaply mass-produced.
It’s not really that precise at all because it’s up to the user to control how long to inhale.
The only reason vape users can dose somewhat precisely is that the drug had a short and obvious feedback loop (how they feel) and they dose many times over the life of a cartridge, allowing them to learn how to dose properly. THC is also very forgiving in overdose, which isn’t a feature shared by most drugs.
edit: https://dosist.com/faq
You can confirm this by thinking through the fact that each need state and each live resin strain has a different composition and viscosity and therefore different vaporization characteristics…yet the buzzer goes off based on a clock.
not really, dosing is dictated not only by time but by coil temperature, drag pressure, drag volume, coil wicking, etc.
if you have a 3 second timer vape, like the dosit, these variables add enough error that the actual medical dosages vary wildly.
An easy example : hit a vape with a timer over and over again. the last hits will almost always have a much strong mouth and denser vapor than the hits prior -- this is because the coil and vaporization 'areas' are now pre-heated from the previous hits and require less energy overall for the same dosage, but this rate varies so wildly that it's an extremely difficult task for a vaporizer to be as dynamic as the dosing rate errors.
this was supposed to get fixed with temperature controlled coils, but it only helps things a bit. What someone needs to do is make a vape profile that'll create a dynamic drag time based off of those error variables, but I have yet to encounter such a device.
Vape cartridges are nowhere near precise enough for normal drug delivery, even with a timer attached. It's just not a precision dosing method. Remember that pharmaceutical users wouldn't have any baseline to work with, whereas vape pen users have calibrated themselves over many doses across many sessions.
It’s billions of dollars a year
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Spent about 10 seconds finding these using Brave search. For folks who can't resist snarky comments, you have to admit it's strange that this is not at least acknowledged amidst a state-by-state push for legalization.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424288/
>> "There is now reasonable evidence from longitudinal studies that regular cannabis use predicts an increased risk of schizophrenia and of reporting psychotic symptoms. These relationships have persisted after controlling for confounding variables such as personal characteristics and other drug use. The relationships did not seem to be explained by cannabis being used to self-medicate symptoms of psychosis."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
>> "The results from these longitudinal analyses show the proportion of cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use disorder has increased 3- to 4-fold during the past 2 decades, which is expected given previously described increases in the use and potency of cannabis."
A small effect on people who were already at risk. The sky is hardly falling with legalization.
Emphasis mine. This seems interesting to me. Earlier diagnosis is not more diagnosis. It could just mean that due to illegality, these people got into contact with mental health professionals earlier than they would have otherwise. Also getting the diagnosis earlier. But not being more schizophrenic.
> probable
Citation:
> The relation between cannabis and schizophrenia needs further investigation. We need more case-control studies and clinical trials with a larger population to get conclusive data.
It is a well-known fact that many of the abuse substances cause psychosis, which is a part of the schizophrenia spectrum; cannabis is one [9]
Nevertheless, the fact remains that schizophrenia and psychosis walk hand in hand alongside with cannabis use. Cannabis has many strains with different ratios of components. The ratio of THC and CBD is the most important psychotomimetic property of any cannabis strain [14]. When a healthy person uses cannabis, he experiences relaxation, euphoria, and a decrease in anxiety and boredom. However, they might also have some undesirable effects like paranoia, grandiosity, agitation, hallucination, cognitive impairment, disorganized thinking and behavior, and depersonalization [17]. People predisposed to the development of psychotic illness are more vulnerable to the psychotomimetic effects of cannabis, more specifically, THC [16,17].
Per se cannabis does not cause schizophrenia or psychosis. However, we have longitudinal data supporting the causal link between cannabis and psychosis [18].
The state process is completely absent of any research, and the community is relying on anecdotes for an infinite set of use cases. Side effects listed, if any, are based on the same anecdotes. I’ll give that an F for Failure. I’m not for putting dealers or users in prison, I can acknowledge that the consumer protection is absent.
In all seriousness, there are a number of cohorts where this should be showing up with some regularity. Can you point me towards any of them?
All the hippies I know are still out there hippie-ing and living their lives, going to Dead shows, and so on. And, from my experience, they seem to be an unusually vigorous group for being so old.
FWIW, the homeless encampments and chop shops by me have plenty of people in the ~50 y/o pot smoking hippie demographic. The local paper even did a profile on a dude named Coconut who is 56 years old and has been following the Grateful Dead/Dead & Co. on all their tours since 1992. He was just killing time until their tour came around later this month.
Have you considered that perhaps schizophrenics seek out drugs? Something like 70-90% of schizophrenics smoke cigarettes. Do cigarettes cause schizophrenia, or do schizophrenics seek out cigarettes?
Or literally anything, besides their sometimes awful default state consciousness?