As strange as this may seem, dabbing cannabis concentrates is even more complicated than smoking cannabis flower products.
It was pretty pathetic when I smoked weed out of a pipe for the first time. It was my third time trying the plant and the first two times I had taken a few hits off a joint a friend had rolled of mids-quality weed. When I was handed the pipe, I didn’t know about the carb-hole on the side that allows you to regulate the flow of air going into the pipe. I probably torched the whole bowl of weed on the first hit as well, as that’s another rookie mistake. However, with time I came to learn all of these finer points of stoner etiquette. A friend in college taught me how to “corner” a bowl of weed where you take your flame and lightly kiss the very edge of the bowl of weed so only a small slit ignites and combusts. It makes the bowl of weed last a lot longer, and it’s basic etiquette when you’re not smoking your own cannabis. As strange as this may seem, dabbing cannabis concentrates is even more complicated than smoking cannabis flower products. Even if you have an electronic nail vaporizer with digital temperature control, there’s an art to how heat is applied and how long you let the concentrate preheat before you start hitting the device with your carb cap. I use a digital battery pack for my mininail and it has algorithms that you can load into its memory on your computer. It learns how to go up to temperature, maintain that temperature steadily, and then taper off by the end until the atomizer cools. It’s amazing to see how far the art of dabbing cannabis concentrates has come as the technology improves.