If ever you get to thinking that adult-use recreational cannabis hasn’t changed much since it became legal in January 2017, consider this: We now have a choice of dozens of dispensaries, some of which are nearly the size of a department store. Legal consumption lounges will soon open near the Strip. And Camp, a Vegas-based cannabis brand available through The Source and other Valley dispensaries, is up to a third version of its disposable vaporizer pens.
Disposable 3.0 marries technical savvy to Camp’s proprietary solventless process for extracting rosin from cannabis. Briefly: The trichomes are removed from the flower without using solvents such as alcohol or butane. They’re run through a hot press, which extracts a golden concentrate which is then sealed into the disposables. There’s more to the process, but the gist is that Camp has found a way to get a pure and flavorful cannabis into discreet 500-milligram vapes.
Camp offers three versions of Disposable 3.0, each made with a different rosin extraction process and each in a distinct color casing. Flower Rosin, in a burgundy-colored pen, offers a taste akin to smoking flower traditionally. (My pen is filled with Wedding Cake, an indica strain.) Ice Water Hash Rosin, in the orange pen, comes from cannabis buds that have been soaked in cold water to extract the trichomes. (This one contains Dead Banana, a 50/50 indica/sativa hybrid.) And Live Rosin, in the white pen, comes from trichomes frozen for a day before they’re heat-pressed. (This one is Dark Rainbow, another hybrid.) The listed THC content on the pens ranges from 71% to nearly 78%.
The hardware is no less impressive. Disposable 3.0 boasts auto-draw, three separate voltage settings and a power cycle that eliminates clogs. It also features a USB type-C port for recharging the battery, effectively extending the useful life of the vape to the point you could smoke it dry. That’s enormously helpful if, like me, you sometimes forget you have them. (I did exactly that with one of my Camp vapes—got it in mid-August, but only removed it from its package last week. It was fully charged and tasted great.)
I wish I could give you the full rundown on each pen’s cannabinoids, flavonoids and terpenes, but to be perfectly honest with you, I’m still trying to figure that stuff out. (Instead of giving budtenders my preferences for taste or feel, I reel off a list of symptoms: “I need something for social anxiety/insomnia/writer’s block.”) However, having sampled all three varieties of Disposable 3.0, I can tell you that whatever way those elements are present in the vapes, they feel like they’re in harmony.
The pens offer what is perhaps the smoothest draw I’ve ever taken from a cannabis vape. And the effects, while immediate, aren’t overwhelming—there was no couch lock, no anxious jitters. Disposable 3.0 is tangible, puff-able proof that not only do things change, they can change for the better.
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