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Smokeless Cannabis Delivery Device Created

05-17-07|post chronicle

U.S. scientists have created a cannabis-vaporizing device to produce the same biological effect as does smoking marijuana but without harmful toxins.

The University of California-San Francisco research focused on delivery of the active ingredient delta-9-tertrahydrocannibinol, or THC.

The study's lead author, Dr. Donald Abrams, noted smoked cannabis alleviates the chronic pain caused by HIV-related neuropathy, but concerns had been expressed that smoking marijuana was not safe.

"This study demonstrates an alternative method that gives patients the same effects and allows controlled dosing, but without inhalation of the toxic products in smoke," said Abrams, a University of California-San Francisco professor of clinical medicine.

Patients rated the "high" they experienced from both smoking and vaporization and there was no difference between the two methods by patient self-reporting. In addition, patients were asked which method they preferred.

"By a significant majority, patients preferred vaporization to smoking, choosing the route of delivery with the fewest side effects and greatest efficiency," said study co-author Dr. Neal Benowitz, who noted pills tend to provide patients with more THC than they need and increase side effects.

The research appears in the online edition of the journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

FitShaced

Wow, and it only took them how many years to catch on? Vapes have been around for what, at least 7 years now right? That's my earliest recollection of them, I'm sure they've been around longer though.