good weed has a great smell, smoked or unsmoked. almost like perfume. the easiest best way to consume weed without smoke is to make tea. just boil water, put a bud in, and let it sit for a couple of hours. it's like an edible though, drink too much and you might wind up in the hospital.
can confirm.
although never tried the Tea route...will have to get back to you on that
so i'll need to refresh myself on stoner organo-chemistry, but i believe that cannabinoids are fat soluble, not water soluble. so you'll do a lot better to heat/cook your weed with some lipids (AKA fats, oils, etc.). that's why the traditional brownie is so effective: the butter and oils in the cake put the THC in solution and make it more bio-available. perhaps add some half-and-half to your tea? also, make sure the tea (and cream) are as hot as possible. might even want to simmer for a few minutes. smoking weed causes the THC to me aerosolized at hundreds of degrees... 212*F water (likely less) isn't going to transform THC as effectively.
like i said, i need to refresh on this... so take it all with a large bud.