Volcano Vaporizer

The Volcano Vaporizer is the undisputed heavyweight champion of vaporizers. The device heats your cannabis with hot air and releases the vapor into a large polythene balloon. The balloon or bag has a valve on the end so that when you’ve taken a hit, you can pass it on to the next person. Each bag will give around 2 – 6 hits depending on your lung capacity. You will often see Volcano Vaporiser Bags being passed around in the best Amsterdam coffeeshops. The Volcano Vaporizer is the most popular and best on the market.

What are the Benefits of Vaporization?

The main benefit of using our vaporizers is of course to protect your lungs from harmful carcinogenic smoke. With your vaporizer you get NEAR ZERO SMOKE because nothing actually burns. Due to our vaporizers inherent design efficiencies you will actually use far less herbs for the same effect. When you use our vaporizers you only ever get the active ingredients/chemicals in their purist form. It is much healthier to use a vaporizers, rather than bongs.

What is the Volcano Vaporizer?

The Volcano Vaporiser is a vaporizer machine consisting of a conical heater base with controls for manipulating the airflow and temperature. It is used for aromatherapy, smokeless ingestion of cannabis or other herbs, and culinary preparation. The air collection system consists of a heatproof bag, a set of valves to control dispersal, and a chamber in which the material is heated. The cannabis or essential oil is heated by a variable temperature, pressurized hot air convection stream, and the resultant vapors are collected in the heatproof bag. Once the bag has inflated, the user removes it from the heater base and inhales or otherwise disperses the vapors using a set of valves.

The Volcano Vaporiser is the Rolls Royce of vaporizers having led the vaporization market for nearly 8 years. In 2003 the Volcano Vaporiser also received the prestigious Dr.-Rudolf-Eberle-Prize for outstanding technical innovation of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Designed and manufactured in Germany by Storz & Bickel. A small company based in Tuttlingen, Internationally renowned for it’s medical technology. Storz & Bickel with their unique patented technology and a team of 21 people hand build the vaporizer to order.

The Volcano Vaporiser comes complete with a variable temperature control from 130 °C (226 °F) to 226 °C (439 °F) perfect for releasing the flavour and active ingredient in all substances before combustion occurs resulting in a cleaner, nicer and healthier hit with no carcinogens.

Uses of the Volcano Vaporizer.

Aromatherapy

The Volcano Vaporiser is used to apply heat to release aromatic compounds from herbs and spices, plant extracts, and essential oils for aromatherapy. It is useful to release delicate aromas that may be destroyed by excessive temperature or difficult to release because of their chemical property.

Medical

Clinical evaluations of the Volcano Vaporiser have been carried out, primarily under the rubric of medical cannabis. Research undertaken by the University of California, San Francisco in November 2007, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Neurology, compared the levels of the bioactive cannabis compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and the harmful constituents produced by smoked cannabis to the vapor produced by the Volcano Vaporiser. The study examined blood concentration of carbon monoxide as a harmful-products marker, and found there was limited exposure to harmful combustion products using the vaporizing device.

A 2004 study published in the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics found that compared to marijuana smoke, vapor from the Volcano Vaporiser contained higher levels of THC and dramatically lower concentrations of toxic compounds.

Another study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology in May 2008 investigated the feasibility of intrapulmonary THC administration using a Volcano Vaporiser. This study found that consistent, reproducible THC extraction and delivery is possible with the Volcano Vaporiser, suggesting that the vaporizing device was a suitable method for the administration of THC.

In June 2006, a study conducted at Leiden University in the Netherlands was published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The study evaluated the performance of the Volcano Vaporiser for reproducible delivery of THC by using pure molecular preparations. The results demonstrated that the Volcano Vaporiser was a competent delivery system for THC. The final analysis of indicated active cannabis compounds were readily liberated by the vaporization device.

Popular

The Volcano Vaporizer is used for the consumption of cannabis. The primary advantage is that cannabinoids can be released without the toxic byproducts of combustion, thereby allowing the inhalation of cannabinoids while eliminating the damaging health effects of smoking.

Culinary

The Volcano Vaporiser is used by chefs including Grant Achatz at the Alinea restaurant in Chicago and Ferran Adrià at El Bulli in Spain as a method of applying controlled heat to foods, herbs and spices to release flavors that are otherwise difficult to titrate or apply, or that might be spoiled by overheating during cooking. The technique is useful for the practice of the modern cooking technique referred to as molecular gastronomy.

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Scientific Studies of Cannabis Vaporizer Usage

All studies have found the release of several harmful constituents were dramatically reduced or completely eliminated.

In 2007, a study by University of California, San Francisco published in the Official Journal of the American Academy of Neurology examined the effectiveness of a vaporiser that heats cannabis to a temperature between 180 °C (356 °F) and 200 °C (392 °F) degrees and found:
“Using CO as an indicator, there was virtually no exposure to harmful combustion products using the vaporizing device. Since it replicates smoking’s efficiency at producing the desired THC effect using smaller amounts of the active ingredient as opposed to pill forms, this device has great potential for improving the therapeutic utility of THC.”

In 2006, a study performed by researchers at Leiden University, tested a vaporiser with preparations of pure THC and found that:
“Our results show that a safe and effective cannabinoid delivery system seems to be available to patients. The final pulmonal uptake of THC is comparable to the smoking of cannabis, while avoiding the respiratory disadvantages of smoking.”