Why it's Really not Smoking Anything
As if meth didn't have enough lies and misinformation to deal with, the fucking anti-smoking narcissists had to stick their noses in and claim that where there's fire, there's smoke. To all those real pioneers of junk science:
It's not smoke for fuck's sake! It's vaporized methamphetamine, so shut up! They won't shut up. Remember these are PhD's in junk science so they studied for about 10 years on how to make shit up to support their obsessive, unscientific, hair-brained ideas they picked up off TV or from a book called "Old Wives Tales." They claim that vaping (anything) is equivalent to smoking as far as its negative effects on the lungs. They also invented this enormous landfill of mistruth that tries to make inhalling vapor, as a route of administration, a brand new invention by Big Tobacco and a really bad, fictional drug dealer who kills children for sport, even though they never have.
The FACT is they've been administering drugs by vaporization for centuries even back to ancient Egypt. Asthma and most respiratory meds are delivered through vapor. The anti-drug cults don't care about your health because you vaporize something, just like they didn't care if you died from cigarettes. They only care about their own narcissistic egos, and when they decide that you should think how they think and do what they do, live how they live. Hell or high water can't stop these obsessive, neurotic, illogical, zealots from doing anything that they think could slander their target and help them achieve their goal. Which, by the way, isn't to solve any health problem or to be helpful in any way. It's to impose their will onto you and me.
(I'll try to keep the nerd stuff to a minimum.)
When something is burned, it produces smoke in most cases because it rarely ever burns completely. The process is called combustion, or a combustion reaction. You start with some kind of fuel, like gasoline or wood or cannabis, and then combine that with Oxygen and a source of energy sufficient to break some molecular bond and get the whole thing started on fire.
Combustion is a Chemical Reaction and it gives off energy as heat, and uses it to break down molecules and rearrange them into different compounds. You may start with some weed and a Bic lighter, but you finish with CO, CO2, aC (soot), and probably a few hundred other cannabinoids and terpines and the other numerous compounds in ganja. In between the Bic lighter stage and the dead bowl full of ashes stage, there is one common product: Smoke.
Smoke is a collection of tiny solid, liquid and gas particles. Although smoke can contain hundreds of different chemicals and fumes, visible smoke is mostly carbon (soot), tar, oils and ash. Smoke occurs when there is incomplete combustion (not enough oxygen to burn the fuel completely). In complete combustion, everything is burned, producing just water and carbon dioxide. (1.)
So, it's mostly sticky, water INsoluble shit that can collect in your lungs. Since our lungs are 80% water and there's not a lot of solvents running around, the shit stays around longer than is healthy. It is eventually kind of flushed out but not immediately like a water Soluble compound.
What is Soluble in water? Methamphetamine. Meth is also a bit unusual in that it's melting point and it's boiling point (or vaporization) are really close together. In other words, it can go from a solid, a shard, to a liquid, a puddle, to a gas, a cloud, all in about 63°F. Compare that to other substances and it's a very small variance. Take water, for example, it's 180°F. Many metals are thousands of degrees as well as regular salt too.
Starting with meth at room temperature in the "Solid State", it's heated to about 347°F where it turns into a "Liquid State". As the temperature rises, the individual molecules in the liquid get excited as the heat source is providing them more energy. However, energy is not uniform for every molecule so just under the boiling point of 410°, like 402-408°F, some of the more highly energized liquid molecules can make that jump to the final "Gaseous Stage", which is the cloud.
The compound, meth, never burns at the proper temperature. It's molecular structure makes it a very inefficient fuel so it will not combust at all while at these temperatures. Once you inhale the cloud, the gaseous, water soluble meth molecules go back to the liquid state as the temperature lowers, then the meth/water solution sits on the capillaries in the lungs and then passes through to the bloodstream. The water does not and is exhaled along with CO2 as part of the normal respiratory routine. It's possible that some excess meth wasn't utilized by the capillaries and it's also exhaled.
Let's review... No, let's not but I want to drive this point home. To all you anti-drug cultists, you obsessed narcissists, you displaced anti-smoking zealots, and especially you corrupt and ethically bankrupt, low IQ true miscreants in the Treatment Industry and at DEA,
THERE'S NO FUCKING SMOKE!
(1.) Bing; Science Learning Hub – Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao, University of Waikato, www.sciencelearn.org.nz