Terpenes in marijuana vaping products may produce toxic chemicals

Its telling us what most vape users have known for awhile, combustion bad for your health, vaping slightly better in moderation, keep temps as low as possible to avoid combusting cannabanoids and terpenes. The headline comes from them burning terpenes and gathering the by products, but herb vapers usually do their best to avoid combustion so its kind of a moot point. The actual study reads different than the glorified blog post about the study.

But some experts have wondered whether terpenes also play a role, said Dr. Mangala Narasimhan, regional director of critical care medicine at Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y.

"That's what everyone is talking about now, that some of this might be the terpenes being burned at such high temperatures and us not knowing what the side effects are," she said.

From study

Overall, gas-phase aerosol products had significantly lower values in dabbing and vaporizing compared to cannabis smoking, although these results should be interpreted in light of potential variations in degradant levels due to disparate usage patterns and the dangers of the higher aerosol concentration of THC.

Edit: removed my dry herb vaping "propaganda" so Bassick doesnt need to cry anymore.

This article does not even say what temperature they used or if they tested at various temps.

There was a reaserch article (google) that basically showed that terpenes only created toxic chemicals when burned above around 700F. That is why a dab rig with accurate temp controls and low temp dabs are a must for health reasons.

Kind of a shitty study if they did not evaluate this.

News article is summarizing this study.

Whoa, black market concentrates could be harmful to your health? Hot take!

Do the pens with real cannabis terps cause the same damage as the more common variety which are infused with food grade terps?