Abstract: An apparatus that vaporizes a substance. The apparatus comprises a pod and a vaporizing device that removably connects to the pod. The pod includes a unique identification number and stores the substance to be vaporized and a carrier of the substance. The vaporizing device includes a memory that stores unique identification numbers and temperatures for each of the unique identification numbers, a reader that reads the unique identification number of the pod, and a controller that selects one of temperatures assigned to the unique identification number from the memory, and a heating element that heats the substance and the carrier to the one of the temperatures to vaporize the substance into a vapor for inhalation to a user.