In Pueblo, Colorado, teenager Noah had smoked marijuana earlier than. However most of his pals had been utilizing an extra-strong model, referred to as dabs. Considering it would assist with the insomnia that plagued him in his senior yr of highschool, Noah picked up a small torch, grabbed the glass smoking gadget referred to as a dab rig and heated a yellow, waxy substance right into a vapor that he slowly inhaled.
For round two years, Noah, who’s now 24 years outdated, stated the behavior made him really feel nice. The kind of marijuana he was loading as many as 5 occasions a day right into a discreet dab pen — related in look to a vaping gadget — was a focus, 75% to 98% of which was THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient.