According to new research, scientists have proven that inhaling vaporized marijuana will get you higher than smoking the exact same amount.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit in Baltimore conducted a study where they tested the effects of smoked versus vaped marijuana on 17 participants who had smoked marijuana before. They did not however smoke in the 30 days before the study’s start. Over the course of six 8.5-hour sessions, participants either smoked or vaped a dose of marijuana containing 0 milligrams, 10mg or 25mg of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
The patients did not know how much THC they were consuming each time.
The study, funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, revealed that inhaling a 25mg dose of THC will get you very high, regardless of whether it was smoked or vaped and that overall effects of vaping was more potent at every dosage.
“Vaporized cannabis produced significantly greater subjective drug effects, cognitive and psychomotor impairment, and higher blood THC concentrations than the same doses of smoked cannabis,” noted the researchers.
The study was published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
“Notably, the highest dose of cannabis administered in this study (25mg of THC: 0.19 g; 13.4 percent THC) is substantially smaller and has a lower THC concentration than what is typically contained in pre-rolled cannabis cigarettes available for purchase in cannabis dispensaries, which commonly contain roughly 1.0 g of cannabis with THC concentrations often exceeding 18 percent,” the study authors also noted.