When beginning vaping, you may be confused by all of the different products on the market. Choosing the right accessories can increase your vaping effectiveness, ensuring you have a safe, healthy, and efficient smoking experience.
For beginner users, you need to know the different characteristics and qualities of the various types of oils, distillates, and vapors that are compatible with pens. Let’s see two common accessories that are used with pens to quickly, discreetly, and safely ingest cannabis.
Vape carts vs. concentrates
Before you can begin safely ingesting cannabis, you need to decide whether vape carts or concentrates are best suited for your needs.
Vape Cartridges
Cartridges are similar to wax pens, but are already pre-filled with either THC or CBD. CBD is the medicinal benefit of cannabis, providing body relief, pain relief, stress relief, inflammation help, and chronic pain care. THC is the opposing side of the cannabis found in the plant, providing the ‘high’ feeling and psychoactive effects that cannabis users enjoy.
Cartridges are often filled with concentrates, which usually consist of a distillate. For those new in the vaping and cannabis world, vape carts are solely the top of the vape pen – they cannot operate on their own. They need a compatible vape pen to heat the product within the cartridge to properly ingest the vapor.
The benefits of using cartridges are the portability, discreet smoking method, and ease of use for beginners in the vaping world. They have increased in popularity due to the efficient nature and smooth hits provided by the clean vapor. Most cartridges on the market are easily refilled using a concentrate, while some vape carts are only for one-time use.
The only cons to smoking cartridges are the ability to use the product in a short time period, meaning you need to spend money to refill the pen quicker. Since it is accessible, convenient, and easy to use, you may find yourself using your vape pen more than you should.
Concentrates
Compared to vape carts, concentrates are solely the product you use within the dab pen. These dabs are highly concentrated, and can provide a much stronger hit than you find with most vape carts. Since you have the active ingredients without any of the additional parts of the cannabis plant, you have stronger and longer-lasting effects.
For beginner users, we recommend starting with vape carts before moving on to use concentrates. By establishing your tolerance level, you can choose strains that have the right potency before moving up in terms of strength and length of aftereffects. The last thing you want to do as a beginner cannabis user is choose a high-potency strain of concentrate and have effects that last longer than intended.
Conclusion
When comparing vape carts vs. concentrates, users need to know the differences between these two products to see which one is best for them to use with their vape pen. Vape carts are oftentimes reusable and provide smooth hits, while concentrates are more potent, stronger, and provide a longer-lasting and more intense high due to the concentrated nature of the oil.
