Salutations,
Every year at Halloween it's time to witness a same political freak show, at least for those of us who still pay attention: mass-media goes berzerk while the "elites" get excited over the dangers of "marihuana" candies laced with fentanyl... Which is a reminder how « légaleezation » failed nations of the world thanks to victorian-age stigma kicking stronger than ever in public institutions, even families that keep normalizing alcohol as a way to further demonize the noble molecules.
There's not a chance i can forget (nor forgive) the multiple treasons of "4-20" in 2016, especially at UN's « UNGASS » event, months after bigot prohibitionnists had gathered at the FCTC/COP6 behind closed doors in Moscow (Russia...) to sabotage it, so to attempt to destroy the health-wise potential of smoker alternatives: vaporizers, electronic cigarettes and water pipes (Ref.: 4.4.1, 4.4.2 and 4.4.3)! All because some brave politicians aiming for the low-hanging fruit are actually obsessed with their own image, pretending to "protect" the civil world, In The Name Of Children. Yano...
M'well i won't pretend being among the $pe¢iali$t$/expert$ who thought they were the only guys worthy enough to act as architects of such a sad imposture. Yet, a decade later, anyone with 2 cents of fair reasoning abilities is able to conclude that Prohibition 2.0 didn't initiate the reciprocal honest & respectful discussions we could hope for: it ain't occurred so far and doesn't seem ready to happen anytime soon, let alone serious well-informed dialogs in our parliamentary structures.
Back then it wasn't all too clear to me what one could expect from getting « legal » but i had time in my canuck $a¢rifi¢ed province to reflect and make up my mind through the meanders of some slow/patient pondering. Since we can no longer hope for a liberated 4-20 it turns out Halloween is the one anual period when cannabis is a topic on late night TV shows, euh... I mean "news".
So tonight lets have a different type of entertainment. I convey the reader to enter a fantasy universe i tagged
VaporaOK! E.G. some fantasy born from my creative contraption of these 2 words: "Vaporism" & "Karaoké"...
Who never heard about karaoke nights before? It's a social game involving a large display, a stage, one of many players and a public audience whatching their individual performances as a cursor moves on that screen.
VaporaOK would be the piece of software behind it, designed to share vaporist sessions but also designed to promote responsible emancipation via an electronic "coach" compatible with exploratory dimensions aiming for self-awareness, even vaguely inspired by « Harm Reduction » though through a very different angle: the multiplication of healthier opportunities by experiencing a catalog of consumption profiles collected in a knowledge base built by out community itself for a change.
Four domains centered on cannabis enjoyment would be this application's main target: personal use, playful social animation, medicinal/medical assistance and research. The challenge then would be to match our inhalation trying to follow a model curve selected from a list of signatures, previously accumulated after the coaching tool helped to identify the bests candidates based on a variety of objectives, for example
terpenes appreciation, etc. How? By using a system joining both objective and sujective ratings like 1 to 5 measured to reflect deviation from that curve and some rank from "A" to "F" expressing either a popular vote (possibly from a jury) or the individual's own personal appreciation in a private setting, which is important too because computers can't calculate sensory impressions like aroma/taste, though in a therapeutic/hospital/research context more specific objectives would suit the clinical framework. All supported by VaporaOK's data-base.
Such digital coach must evidently include some vaporist simulator to train newbies before they go for the real thing. I might look just like a video game where only a pair of keyboard keys or analog game controller triggers are needed to emulate a mix of inhalation force (pressure & speed) moderated by "inlet" fresh air injection (as in my VG pipe customization)... Records which qualified during practice would also enrich the collective data and the obvious requirement here is about managing it all, the answer being through an "
Hybrid
Unique
Identifier" integrating a timestamp and possibly some contextualization item (Alphanumeric, Client, Event, File, Hospital, Journalized, Karaoke, List, Message, Name, Postal Code in foreign countries, Reference, Universal, Vapor, Watts, Address, Commerce, Special), you name it.
Sharing with an audience can rely on QR Codes considering there's a large screen on stage already; basically the HUI has to be generated the instant inhalation began, when done said HUI can complete a short web addresses such as http :// vaporaok . org / coach / for internet publication. Temporal granularity of 5 seconds will do fine and accommodate decades of data gathering, plus an option to manually re-define its reference date until the end of eternity...
The limitation with QR Codes is optical range: the longer the characters strings the less reliable it becomes, hence our need for an HUI compressed with high-order numerical bases. No big geal, the one real source of concern then is man, because factors like plain text visual copy/interpretation and printing/OCR can go wrong. That's why the numerical base order is restricted as for the canadian Postal Code where visually ambiguous letters were simply banned...
Anyway, forget the technicalities, my point is most people have what's required right into their pocket, equiped with an HD camera! In other words the world is VaporaOK-ready!!
Now that i've set the foundations here's its bonus prize: an actual pairing of inhalation data and lab analysis of the vapour captured by a little piece of cotton... After all, hor hard is it to also generate a BarCode specific to that BarCode?! Which means it would become all to easy and convenient just to stick this type of label on a vial where to insert the vaporist sample before it's sent for further expertise collection. Moreover, give it one more decade of 2 and i bet we'll also be able to carry portable cannabis analyzers around!
That would be then end of subjective guessing, numbers would talk at last. And if you're worried for your privacy, oh well, please know the canadian Postal Code is built in segments and the 1st one feels anonymous enough to me as it is. Localization ain't even a requirement but having it in such approximative form might still help speed up research a great deal, or if it's OKay then go with one's personal telephone number an international sclae, whatever.
The HUI's only purpose resides in building a reliable catalog by serializing data with virtual disposable tokens that can't have duplicates.
As for the app i guess it would have to come with a language button (Français/English) as part of its user interface. It would provide a standardized universal environment which all battery-operated intelligent vaporizers can adhere to: simply "pair" it and then you go!
At the heart of VaporaOK you'd find a [Replay] button besides its [Record] complement allowing vaporist .CSV session files to be shared on social media from where you stand, or in most other situations. This data would always be accessible at your fingertip when required, rendered it readable form on the display of an iPhone, tablet or notebook. A newbie cannabis consumer would pick his favourite type of profiles and let the coach guide him through some model curve that looks somewhat like this:
All meant as an inclusive approach serving personal empowerment & growth, integrating a socialization dimension via ritual sharing with health-wise concepts as a background, to bridge the gap separating individual vs clinical environments with fairly bold signs of participatory community involvement.
Biofeedback rooted in audiovisual resources would be the mater key to vaporist coaching, an average VaporaOK event might start by introducing participants about to enter the ritual in expectation of a review, etc. The [Replay]/[Record] button would fuel this immersive social animation aided by simulations and/or real-time sessions validated through multisensory such strategy.
Past the warm-up stage novices then would measure against popular champions and contribute with their own data themselves, thanks to QR Code indexation. Before they leave the stage players would be offered to express impressions, possibly to document the event further. In the end suggestions for adjustment or exploration would follow as a conclusion, in hope to inspire later debates when key moments are revisited, or more detailed explanations provided to the attention of forum members after they accessed the collective database. Etc., etc...
Overall VaporaOK’s core mission even sounds compatible with business models of our capitalist universe. After all, commercial partners might be pleased to access such privileged knowledge base, perhaps even engough to want to host the server themselves... In the relentless industry of vaporizer manufacture there's quite a competitive market waiting impatiently for innovation and its niche opportunities as a bonus. It may only prove to be a stoner fantasy at the moment but someday VaporaOK-like ventures might very well become a strategic imperative, when Prohibition 2.0 is finally a thing of the past.
Happy Halloweed weekend!!
