Is there an effective way to inhale marijuana without smoking it?
The best way health wise; and particularly for people who find that their throat or lungs are irritated by smoke from marijuana, is to vaporize it. And that is to put it in a chamber and expose it to a very high level of heat so the compounds are paralyzed or released as a gas rather than burnt. And then that gas is collected and allowed to cool. And then you just breath it as if you were breathing air from a plastic balloon, or a rubber balloon or something. And that is basically what vaporization is all about. And that's an alternative that the American Institute of Medicine is recommended. They did research on that as an alternative delivery mechanism. But the federal government has not been willing to fund those kinds of studies. Although there are some being conducted with private funds.