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One of the odd echoes of this is in the nascent cannabis herb vaporizer market. (Controversies and health concerns about the oil-based pens are real but aren’t
by hprotagonist 7y ago
One of the odd echoes of this is in the nascent cannabis herb vaporizer market. (Controversies and health concerns about the oil-based pens are real but aren’t related here.)
There’s a positively cambrian explosion of form factors, heater designs, heat sources, materials, control systems, etc. right now in the product space, and it’s more or less all driven by crazy people making stuff in their basement and selling it via word of mouth on reddit and instagram and web forums.
No one design has won, so we’re still in that “try everything!” mode. It’s kind of fun to see.
- mschuster91 7y agoThe problem with crazy people making stuff in their basement is that, sometimes, people die from it.
- hprotagonist 7y agothe cambrian explosion stage is also the caveat emptor stage. In this instance, i'll be glad of regulatory oversight sooner rather than later.
- imgabe 7y ago"sometimes people die from it" is a characteristic of just about every human endeavor.
- alasarmas 7y agoThis recent crisis regarding adulterants/diluents for oil pens reminds me of nothing so much as "jake leg", but in that case the adulterating agent was used to mislead the authorities as to the composition of the product, not the users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_ginger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_ginger
- fourstar 7y agoI’d say Pax has won this category.
- opportune 7y agoPax is positioned too high in the market to really win. And it’s still not as easy to clean as it could be
- hprotagonist 7y agoNope. Arizer and Storz and Bickel are up there and absolutely pulling their weight. The solo, volcano/mighty/crafty are certainly well known, so Pax doesn't have the lock down on brand recognition. There's a second tier of cheap-but-probably-safe that's companies like boundless or healthy rips. Then there are the fan favorites / esoteric-nerd things like dynavap or the aforementioned basemenet-makers or hobbyist/lifestyle companies. They're not going to hit mass-market volume but they've got the nerds covered. Pax is killing it with the Era (but that's for concentrates) and their parent company is Juul, so they're well positioned -- but they are not setting the trend of the market at all. They continue to make good-but-overpriced conduction-only units that are increasingly just totally eclipsed by convection/hybrid units with replaceable batteries or alternative heat sources.
- simlevesque 7y agothe Pax Era is one of the worst concentrate portable device on the market.
- hprotagonist 7y agoit's also pretty limited; they're not available in my state, for example. The partnership-with-local-concentrate-producers plan means, as far as i can tell, that the quality varies wildly.
- vokep 7y agoWhy do you say this? It isn't the most cost effective maybe, but it is convenient and the bluetooth control stuff is kinda nice.
- simlevesque 7y ago