Vape Review: Haze

Here's the pitch for the Haze: It's a portable vape with two chambers, meaning you can flip between two strains of cannabis without reloading. It also has a big, hefty lithium battery and comes with a charger with a second battery in it.

With this contraption, $250, from Vapeworld, you will not quickly run out of either loaded herb or the power to heat it.

But you might wish you did.

This is a weird vape—it's shaped like a catfood can, opening on the side to allow loading into the dual chambers. Like most consumers, I am not eager to read instructions in depth or watch YouTube tutorials, so maybe I'm missing some of the details. But I've had a huge number of problems with this product.

First and most significantly, with the mouthpieces. It comes with glass and metal tubes, about the size of a birthday candle, which you're to stick into a hole hidden by a flip-open cover. There's no stopper inside, so I've twice lost the steel tube down the hole and had to fish it out with the included tweezers.

Then there's the battery latch, which never quite looks closed and frequently pops open.

Then there's the one-button control without adequate indicator lights, which provides almost no guidance to the user.

And that big oven and huge battery sure makes it hot in your hand.

It's clunky, confusing and, thanks to the problem with tubes disappearing down into the chamber, frustrating. If you're desperate to be able to vape two strains without reloading, it might have a use. If not, there are too many other options out there to bother with the Haze.

Willamette Week