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And I also think buds need a little more moisture for vaping compared to smoking. Which is a problem sometimes for storage of bud as it requires constant checking to make sure you don't end up with a load of mould affected weed. Different vaporisers need fine tuning to find your sweet spot I've found. I was used to running the boundless at the lowest setting of 175°c and occasionally at 182°c as that seemed about right. But for a crafty or mighty, you get similar flavours from 202°c. Now I've been running the extreme Q at 220-225°c and the vapour quality is about the same as the others listed at a much lower temp. I think the temp sensor is located close to the source of heat, but the herbs are packed further away so the air probably cools a little along the way. Experiment, find your sweet spot. I haven't used a volcano before, but it's the gold standard so maybe try a lower temp, or play around with the variables you can control to see if you can get past that harshness. Curing also plays a major role in taste. I'd wager most commercial crops are dried and pushed out for sale asap, I certainly see some very pale green material that doesn't look like it's cured properly. A decent cure will break down much of the nitrogen that would otherwise end up converting to ammonia, possible reason for the harshness?

^ This. Like any route of administration, vapour needs to be gotten used to, just like smoke of any kind. It spins me out to hear people say that they can only smoke cannabis with tobacco That shit's sacrilege in some circles I hear... Of course the variety of vape products out there also require a period of adjustment. Another aspect to consider when vaping is also the quality of the material vaped.

Vaping can feel like a different type of harshness, even at low temps. Inhaling small hits rather than a whole volcano bag/your max lung capacity is one way of dealing with this. Personally I notice a tickle at the top of my throat that precedes feeling like I need to cough by a couple of seconds. If I stop inhaling at the tickle then it's all good.

Interesting, what temp were you running it? Assume you were using a balloon not a whip. And you mean dry herb not concentrates? I can't smoke anymore at all, it just makes me feel terrible.

Common sense really innit. Edit: now I've read the paper, it's a hypothesis only, no experiments have been performed, so not sure about some of the claims made. I doubt the temperature of a dab nail would reach the high temp required for such a conversion to happen. If the subject of the paper had been in the habit of inhaling 1g of bho at a time, that alone would be a lot of very hot oily vapour to bring into your lungs and I would posit that might be a more likely cause of her pneumonia than methacralein degradation by products.

Gotta say I've been spouting the same rhetoric around fatalities. Statistically insignificant in our country is a fucking understatement. Lockdown is a joke, and I have to agree that all I am seeing out there is a lot of government "You can't's" instead of "What is your will citizens?" Our will counts for nothing and the governments of the day seem to think it is their job to tell us what we can and can't do. That isn't their job at all; it is to action the will of the people. But you can't rally when there is a pandemic, can't protest your rights being taken away when the government says stay at home aye? Oh no, not more cases. They're cases, not deaths for fucks sake. QLD has a handful of deaths, a HANDFUL. Yet everyone better do as gov says or else. The fucking flu kills 3500 in this country per year on average, sometimes much more, sometimes much less. The mortality rate in OZ is ridiculously low, and no I don't want to go on the roundabout around how it would've been much worse blahblah because VIC is in lockdown again, has had the most deaths and they went in the hardest out of all states. Urge to revolt rising...