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From what I've heard "vaporizing" allows you better control consumption without any (minimal) smoke. Probably the safest and healthiest method to consume a desired amount.

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Won't speak for other potentially negative effects, but there is no smoke (not even minimal) in vaporizing, as no combustion occurs.

That doesn't solve the problem of getting a known dose with minimal bad chemicals.

Known dose, sure. A lot of medical shops are posting independent lab measurements of all of the independent cannabinoids (most importantly: thc, cbd, cbn, cbg). So if you had a mg-accurate scale, and a bit of math, and assuming 100% uptake in a vaporizer, that's nearly a solved problem. With vaporizing the dried flowers, there is literally nothing else in there -- it's not an extract or anything where there could be latent glycols or butane or whatever.

So really, the problem _is_ solved :) It's just that the threshold and effective doses for cannabis mean that mg-specific dosing really isn't that useful.

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