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Vaporization of Cannabinoids:
a Preferable Drug Delivery Route
By Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
STUDY SHOWS VAPORIZER CAN DRASTICALLY REDUCE TOXINS IN MARIJUANA SMOKE
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Oral vs Inhaled
While cannabis used medicinally has generally utilized the oral route,
certain difficulties have been recognized since its introduction to western
medicine by O'Shaughnessey in 1839. The most common entry in the Surgeon
General's List, 19th century precursor to the Indicus Medicus described
overdose. While not physically harmful, the mental effects were alarming.
While the oral cannabis ingestion using gradual upward titration may take
days, oral cannabis' absorbtion rates vary, depending on motility and contents
of the gastrointestinal tract. Inhaled cannabis by contrast produces much more
rapid onset of effect (within minutes compared with hours), reliable effect, and
accurate autotitration.
The current use of cigarette or pipe for the inhaling of cannabinoids is
recognized as delivering numerous irritants and possible carcinogens along with
the desired active principles to the tracheobronchial tree and oral cavity.
Vaporization separates out the more therapeutic chemical components from the
crude plant or resin impurities and breakdown products of pyrrolysis.
The vaporization temperature range is significantly below the flash point and
pyrrolytic temperature of cannabinoids and non-cannabinoid components of crude
cannabis.
Table 1
Some Chemical Constituents of Cannabis and their Vaporization
Temperatures*
Compound Boiling Point
Degrees Centigrade Degrees Fahrenheit
Tetrahydrocannabinols 155-157 311-314.6
Cannabinols 185 365
Cannabidiols 187-190 368.6-374.0
There are some 421 identified compounds in cannabis, 61 of which are
cannabinoids. All of these compounds are pyrrolyzed into numerous degradation
products which are delivered to the respiratory tract through the process of
smoking.**
Any mitigation of irritation to the oral cavity and tracheobroncheal tree in
the delivery of active principles of cannabis- especially in the chronic
marijuana user would be inherently safer. For the immunocompromised,
debilitated, or in respiratory distress possibly life saving.
A program to study the physical and therapeutic properties including asthma
which would utilize the therapeutic properties of the drug without the drawback
of the irritation to the lungs.
Systematic evaluation of specific vaporization temperature ranges is required
to better differentiate and characterize the optimal combinations of
cannabinoids for different symptoms and conditions.
Draft 4
12/16/93
*Merck Index Eighth Edition 1968
**Turner, Marijuana and Health Report of a Study by a Committee of the
Institute of Medicine National Academy Press, Washington DC 1982 page 14
Addendum: the latest edition of the Merck Index 1989 lists the boiling
point of delta 1,9 Tetrahydrocannabinol as 200 degrees centigrade.
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