I’ve just ordered the power adaptor for my MFLB from the official Magic Flight website – despite it having to arrive from the States (and shipping being reasonably pricy and slow!) I think it’s worth it – after six months or so of using my MFLB with batteries, they’re behaving quite differently. With new batteries, the first few hits after charging are super hot and potent, and then it gradually tapers off. Whereas with the older batteries, the first hit is still mega, but they quickly get weaker. Not the biggest problem in the world, but it’s frustrating enough to make me willing to sacrifice some portability when I’m vaping at home. It’d also be quite nice to be able to pull creamy hit after creamy hit, since with the PA you can adjust the temperature to get the perfect kablammo hit time after time.

It’ll also be handy for cleaning – the best way to clean your vape is to leave a battery in, get it hot, and burn off any goop, but since batteries aren’t designed for this you have to keep swapping to stop any one battery getting too hot. With the PA I’ll be able to crank it to full blast and leave it burning clean, issue free!

I’ll post an update when it arrives – it’s an exciting time to be me!

A 66-year-old pensioner has been “spared jail” after growing cannabis plants so he could alleviate the pain felt by his wife, who suffers from crippling arthritis.

I could name the ‘offender’ but I think it’s a crying shame that his name is even in the press and that the judge at Bolton Crown Court thought doing a completely innocent and victimless act warranted 120 hours of community service. Surely it would be better for this kind-hearted elderly man to be caring for his disabled spouse instead of scrubbing graffiti off walls for three working weeks?

The ‘perpetrator’ would mix butter and cannabis resin and give this to his wife after traditional medicines failed to help her, but she would have been able to receive faster pain relief if she had used a volcano vaporiser or a MFLB.

It takes a long time for THC to take effect when it is ingested and it is hard to control how high you get when you eat weed, but if you toke from an iolite and vaporise your buds, the effect is almost instant and you can put the vaporiser down when you’re wrecked enough.

Believe it or not, the arthritic wife in the Bolton Crown Court story also faced being charged with the same offence as the man, but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the charges against her in the week before her hubby was sentenced.

It is disgusting that these two people went through such trauma and heartache because one was doing all he could to care for the other and the best thing you could say about this case is that it has shown how farcical the law is.

The pain incurred by a range of ailments – such as menstrual cramps, cancer, AIDS and chronic nerve trauma – can be alleviated by toking some nice buds with a magic flight launch box.

There have recently been reports that Gatwick customs officers have been giving verbal warnings to people with personal amounts of cannabis in their hand luggage, despite the Home Office insisting they be immediately arrested, so they can face a 14-year prison sentence.

What amazed me is that this is news. Cannabis is a particularly safe drug if it’s used in a magic flight launch box or other smokeless device. A study published in the journal Addiction and led by UK scientists in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and other leading establishments in Cambridge and Bristol found the Man would have to stop 2,800 heavy young male tokers and more than 5,000 big-time female stoners to prevent one case of schizophrenia, with these figures rising to 10,000 and 30,000 respectively among lighter users.

And obviously, one state-sponsored intervention is not going to stop a heavy weed smoker, the researchers pointed out, making the whole law a big waste of time.

So with data like this, why does the Daily Mail say the Gatwick revelations have “prompted fears that cannabis laws are being widely ignored across Britain’s airports, leading to a virtual ‘open door’ situation for drug smugglers”? Why would they possibly want travellers dopey enough to have left a bud in their pocket to get anything more serious than a slap on the wrist?

The journalist and the people behind this editorial stance ought to be ashamed. I would reckon most of the public thinks the Daily Mail is a shrill, authoritarian and generally nasty and unpleasant newspaper, but stories like this allow the Man to believe there is still a section of the populace that wants people to get banged up for having a 20-bag because failing to do so is a victory for Columbian drugs cartels.

I would like to think the times are changing – all the old fuddy-duddies who buy the Mail and approve of its editorials will soon be too deceased to vote and eventually the UK will have a legalised and regulated recreational drugs trade. There’ll be a volcano vaporiser on every high street and the prime minister will address the nation toking on an iolite and looking remorseful for the enforcement garbage his predecessors did. Which is why it particularly irritated me to see someone using a massive public platform to complain that weed smokers aren’t getting lengthy jail sentences.

Ahhh, there’s nothing quite as relaxing as a nice hot bath after a long day’s work. And what better accompaniment is there than a nice blast from my trusty Magic Flight? Thanks to the lack of flame, the simple design, and the fact I don’t need anywhere to put the ash (since there is none) the MFLB works a treat when you’re having a soak!

A Volcano vaporiser, iolite or Magic Flight Launch Box is a safe and effective way to consume cannabis.

Research by scientists in the UCSF revealed vaporising weed in so-called ‘smokeless’ devices results in the exact same biological effects as burning it in a spliff, without producing any of the harmful toxins caused by the combustion process.

The study, which was published in the journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, further bolsters the argument that buying an MFLB is a great idea for weed smokers.

While it may be easy to put a value on weed, you can’t put a price on good health.

The UCSF researchers used an unknown device that heats buds to between 180 and 200 degrees C, while combustion occurs at a slightly higher temperature of 230 degrees C.

They monitored carbon monoxide (CO) levels as a marker for the other harmful compounds expected to result from blazing a doobie and found when people had a smoke, the exhaled amount of CO spiked as expected.

However, this did not happen when a research participant toked from a vape.

Study co-author and UCSF professor of medicine, psychiatry and biopharmaceutical sciences Neal L. Benowitz, MD, should drop me a line next time he wants to recruit someone for an experiment into getting high.

Noting the safety of vaporisers, he said: “By a significant majority, patients preferred vaporization to smoking, choosing the route of delivery with the fewest side effects and greatest efficiency.”

The investigation took place to support a study that found the THC in weed can alleviate the pain suffered by people with HIV-related neuropathy, but you don’t need to be ill to get stoned.

We’ve had a guest blog featured on MarijuanaConnections.com – Click here to read it! It’s a little goofy, I admit, but hey – I was high when I wrote it! An excerpt:

The best compromise one can hope for is for the chronic-loving member of the relationship (you) to keep your usage discrete, affordable, healthy, and efficient. After all, your partner is hardly going to appreciate living with the pungent aroma of kind buds, with a kitchen table cluttered with bongs, tobacco, rizlas, pipes, ash trays and scorch marks. Nor are they ever going to change their viewpoint if they see your habit as being expensive, unhealthy, or affecting your day-to-day ability to earn a living.

Here’s a great video of Katt Williams talking about smoking versus vaporising!

I’m starting a new series here on Magic Flight UK – ‘Getting Away With It’, highlighting the awesome discreteness of the MFLB. In this first photo, our intrepid reporter was getting mega-caned on a crowded First bus home after a night out! Other passengers were totally oblivious. You can’t do that with a spliff!

The Volcano vaporiser is the Big Daddy of the vaping world. Although you can’t use it on-the-go and it doesn’t have the practicality of portable alternatives such as the Magic Flight Launch Box or the Iolite, it makes up for this through its sheer impressiveness.

Although the price of a volcano exceeds that of many other smoking implements, it is worth it for the benefit to your health. Also, it’s a bit like fitting your house with insulation to reduce your fuel bills – while you might not like the initial investment, it’ll rapidly pay for itself by cutting the amount of bud you go through, and it’s built for endurance, potentially giving you quality smoke after quality smoke for decades.

Whenever I bust out the volcano at a party, everyone is always stunned by it, although to be honest within a few moments they are all completely baked.  People love the volcano – why wouldn’t you? It’s the healthiest and pimpingest way to smoke in the world.

Volcano vaporisers are also great for people who need to be cagey about their smoking, such as residents of shared accommodation or people who live with their parents, because it lets them get completely wasted with the minimal amount of smell or fuss. They just come up with an excuse for why their eyes look so tired or they can’t stop scoffing food from the fridge.

People who use cannabis for medical purposes, such as suffers of glaucoma or multiple sclerosis, frequently choose a volcano because it gives them the effective hit of THC they need, while minimising or eliminating exposure to any harmful combustion by-products.  Although I strongly recommend that anyone who smokes weed buys a nice vaporiser so they can avoid damaging their lungs, I know how important it is for people with health problems to get the weed they need in as healthy a way as possible.

Also, if you’re Heston Blumenthal or something, you apparently might want to use a volcano for culinary purposes. I don’t know anything about this, though – if the recipe doesn’t start with ‘pierce film lid several times’ or ‘fill with hot water to water fill point’ it’s probably too confusing for me.

So if you smoke weed, or if you’re a crazy chef, get yourself a Volcano vaporiser today!

I’ve just read about an awesome way to get a hit from the Magic Flight Launch Box called ‘pyronym’s technique’ on this article on VaporPedia.com. It’s really simple:

1. Grind up herb as fine as possible with grinder.
2. Load trench so it is filled slightly higher than the top of the trench.
3. Insert battery and exhale fully.
4. Place your mouth on the box without the stem, being careful not to have your tongue or teeth in the vapor path.
5. Breathe in through your nose slowly as though you are taking a normal breath.
6. Inhale until your lungs feel full or you start choking on the vapor.
7. Hold breath.
8. Optional: Breathe vapor out through your nose.

I’ve just tried it with my MFLB and let me tell you – it’s a big improvement over the normal way (which I was already happy with!). If you’re looking to get absolutely blitzed from your Magic Flight, this is clearly the way to do it. By breathing through your nose you create negative pressure (aka a vacuum) in your mouth which creates a very slow drag, much slower than you could manage by controlling your breathing. And the slower you drag, the cloudier and more potent the vapour you create!

I doubt I’ll ever take a hit from my box any other way now that I’ve discovered this new method! My hat goes off to you, Pyronym!