How i usually smoke weed

[VerdantGreen]

Edibles... i find the dosing difficult. ive had a jar of canna butter in my fridge for years and probably managed, in total, about a tablespoon full in all that time.
At very small doses it kind of works but mostly just makes me tired (which can be useful but not much fun) and at larger doses it is more like a psychedelic for me.. and that's fine occasionally but i don't want to be trippin' every evening. What usually happens when i try a decent dose is that i get so high that i end up having a couple of joints just to smoke myself down again lol.. and that kind of defeats the object !
VG

 

[@peace]

I love smoking and wish I could everyday. Two years ago I started coughing up phlegm with chunks of resin after many years of bong hash hits. Stopped smoking and switched purely to vaping, this didn't seem to help. I quit vaping in April of 2021. I saw my dr. and had lung function tests, all good, just coughing up resin, multiple times daily. It took over a year after I quit to stop coughing that resin laced phlegm up.

In the meantime I switched to sativa tinctures for daily migraine control. Went to a concert a couple of weeks ago and stood in a cloud of weed smoke for hours, to the point that I wanted to try vaping again, because nobody likes a quitter.

Tried vaping again yesterday, first with flower, then with hash mixed in. I have to say that I have no need to vape anymore, it will be going back into the closet. Tincture is easy as hell, I walk by the fridge, take a couple droppers, put it back and continue on with my day, no coughing ever and honestly I find the high better than vaping. Fat based edibles are different effect wise for me and make me tired like you said, with the sativa tincture I can still get the paranoia and the "oh no they're coming" feeling in high doses lol.

Not saying that smoking weed caused my lung issues, sure didn't help though.

 

[VerdantGreen]

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Tried vaping again yesterday, first with flower, then with hash mixed in. I have to say that I have no need to vape anymore, it will be going back into the closet. Tincture is easy as hell, I walk by the fridge, take a couple droppers, put it back and continue on with my day, no coughing ever and honestly I find the high better than vaping. Fat based edibles are different effect wise for me and make me tired like you said, with the sativa tincture I can still get the paranoia and the "oh no they're coming" feeling in high doses lol.

Not saying that smoking weed caused my lung issues, sure didn't help though.

Interesting, i must look up tincture and what that's all about !

VG

 

[Switcher56]

Edibles is surely the way to go if you want to get the full spectrum of the effect. I make some butter every harvest and olive oil every year. It also makes for a great gift when friends come over. I have a friend who does exactly what you said. She bought capsules from amazon, and she saves her vaped weed to make 0.1-0.3g capsules. Takes different amounts of these capsules throughout the day to manage her nerve pain. She even has a little machine to fill the capsules lol. But she actually needs this for her pain. Unlike me who just likes to get baked

I hear you good buddy Don't worry I know how and when to get baked. The best thing that occurs in what I do. There is always a pill that will do the voodoo it needs to do. If I wanna get blitzed, I can do that as well Hey I was 17 once LOL

 

[Switcher56]

Interesting, i must look up tincture and what that's all about !

VG

I messed a bit with them. Personally I found it hard to correctly (adequately) dose yourself. Sublingual is the way to go e.g chewing on my cud, after the fire, as it is direct to the blood stream, just like suppositories. OTOH, I know what each pill is capable of regardless of 0.2g variance between caps.

 

[hamstring]

First, Tincture is very easy to control dose. Each time you make a new batch of tincture you have to start over to get a understanding of how much to does. Its always been between 2 and 3 milliliters for me. Again you need to feel out each new batch though.
To me the one downside is length of buzz. I can control it with a joint better. Also with a joint, at the peak, I can almost get as high as with a small dose of tincture. I am right in my sweet spot but it only lasts 15-20 min max. With Tincture it lasts for a hour or maybe longer. Again once your on the tincture train there are no stops to get off. With a joint I can get off the high train at any time.

I mostly smoke joints and a pinner means a tiny joint . I.e. size of pin. Just like a thump joint is the size of your thumb.

I would ride my bike down to the cemetery down the road to sneak a joint back in the day. I would come home go down to the basement and wash my hands, face and even hair. Change my T-shirt and come back up to the family. My daughter never new I smoked weed until she was in college. I talk to younger fathers and they love the hash/concentrate pens because there is no smell. Smell was always your worst enemy.

 

[Grojak]

Glass is glass. Overpaying for a rig is stupid. It bubbles, its glass and hits well...why do you need more? Feel free to spend hundreds, even thousands on rigs..it is a total waste. Bubbler still working after 1 year...seems good to me. You go ahead and spend your money on glass. I will keep mine for other more important things in life. Close your eyes and take a hit off your multi hundred dollar rig...you cant tell the difference from a $50.00 one. Whatever floats your boat tho.
Have a great day. Peace negative.

And garbage is garbage, enjoy

 

[goingrey]

And garbage is garbage, enjoy

All glass is def not created equal. Some pieces work way better than others.

Price doesn't seem to correlate much (if at all). Some of the best pieces I've used have been relatively inexpensive. And the more expensive stuff underwhelming. Strictly functionally.

Thicker glass is more durable but it's also heavy and awkward to handle. Clear glass looks lab equipmenty at best and crack pipey at worst. But colored glass / "art" can be gaudy. And the artistry brings no function. But it's worth it if you like it. And hey maybe you're supporting a local artist. Or getting ripped off by a local schemester.

Right now all I have is a colored glass one hitter. It's not the best. The draw is too open. Burns too fast and hot. Gotta smoke it like a chillum. Need something better. One of those "glass taster pipe" things maybe. Nothing I've tried has beat one of them at least in taste. Fill them up tight and the weed just sizzles up in the bowl, releasing all the aroma and the tight draw means the smoke is not too hot even with the short stem. They really are the best. And about as crack pipey as you can go without stuffing some chore boy in a love rose tube. I can see some for sale online for two bucks. Two bucks. For the best possible experience. Unless you have a high tolerance and need to smoke a lot, then you'll spend all day trying to get high with those tiny bowls, not the best possible experience.

So it all really depends. Not familiar with Master Glass but if @negative37dBA has been using his pipe for a year and still thinks it's good, it's obviously not garbage.

 

[VerdantGreen]

Ive seen the Future !

High-end bongs: luxury Venice glassmaker enters the market

Venice, famous for centuries for its glass, is venturing into the world of bongs, reports Sofia Barbarani in Rome

www.independent.co.uk

 

[vladsmolka151]

I like smoking weed most of all, through a bong

 

[Hombre del mont]

Edibles... i find the dosing difficult. ive had a jar of canna butter in my fridge for years and probably managed, in total, about a tablespoon full in all that time.
At very small doses it kind of works but mostly just makes me tired (which can be useful but not much fun) and at larger doses it is more like a psychedelic for me.. and that's fine occasionally but i don't want to be trippin' every evening. What usually happens when i try a decent dose is that i get so high that i end up having a couple of joints just to smoke myself down again lol.. and that kind of defeats the object !
VG

I'm thinking that cobs might be what you need. Dossing is very easy and reliable, and the hit is better than any other way, imo.

 

[VerdantGreen]

Thanks @Hombre del mont .. i'm not sure what 'cobs' are ? (in relation to edibles)

 

[Switcher56]

I'm 67, so that means I've been smoking weed for fifty years. I don't want an argument either, I'm just not gonna sit here and say nothing when I see people DEFAME smoking pot on a smoking pot website.

So as far as I'm concerned, it's on YOU to prove that smoking pot is harmful to human lungs. And again, after centuries of humans smoking cannabis, where are all the records of sick or dead people? (besides your friends, lol) In this environment of prohibition, why isn't the establishment trotting out all the VICTIMS of smoking pot? Huh?

I support that argument, the rest is simply an unknown, and well, no! Its not up to us to prove anything. Most cannabis smokers are or were also cigarette smokers, so where do you draw the line. Some quit, some still do. So you have a tainted research pool , akin to what came 1st the chicken or the egg. I was coughing up black shit for 2 weeks or so after the fire, which contained many carcinogenic compounds (outside of tobacco nitrosamines) If I have lung cancer (down the road) what caused it. 34 yrs of smoking or the fire? Think of 9/11. I rest my case

 

[exploziv]

Cobs are exactly the cured/fermented/sweated buds in cobs, but you eat it.

 

[chilliwilli]

Thanks @Hombre del mont .. i'm not sure what 'cobs' are ? (in relation to edibles)

Malawi style cob curing

 

[944s2]

Interesting, i must look up tincture and what that's all about !

VG

We used to have tincture from TTs Holistic Centre in Kings Cross years ago,,,,
It was my go to “ thing “ whenever we used to fly as I’m not too keen on flying,,,
Getting the dose correct with those little plungers was fun,,,,
I realised after being virtually comatose for a 3 hour flight on the second time that I should wait till the first dose kicks in and have that earlier,,
it tasted nasty but was highly effective for why I needed it,,,

 

[Switcher56]

I'd prefer to be a pussycat with good lung function than a tough guy that's coughing his up... each to their own.
VG

But it takes a real man to face down cancer

 

[Switcher56]

@revegeta666 that is exactly how i feel, you explained it better than me!... and i also think that vaping is not going to be completely benign either.. but very likely better than smoking.
It's not that i think cannabis or any cannabis unique compounds are bad for you ... but i think that inhaling smoke from burnt organic matter is likely to be bad for your lungs and i doubt that even beneficial effects in weed could cancel that out.

I am quite tempted by the vape you posted ealier.. not too expensive in the UK and good reviews. I did manage to just vape for about a year but i went abroad and couldn't take it with me.. and then i couldn't stop smoking spliffs and go back to it when i came home.
It might be time to try again with a better vape (flowermate last time which was ok)
I smoke bud in a pipe sometimes and my lungs can really feel the difference between that and my little filtered joints!

VG

I have a Flowermate5 Nano and an Arizer1 solo. Is one better than the other? Yes but for different reasons:

• the flowermate is tastier but not by much
• you can dial in a flowermate to the exact temperature you want, precisely.
  • the Arizer its a range
    • L1 122 deg f
    • L2 365
    • L3 374
    • L4 383
    • L5 393
    • L6 401
    • L7 410
  • I vape @ L3 until cut off or when I start to cough or the vape is wispy
  • Return to it after a spell at finish off at L4
• the Arizer provides a "cooler" vape (longer mouth piece)
• the Arizer has a cutoff of 12 minutes, compared to 5 with the flowermate.
• the flowermate is portable, the Arizer is portable also, but clunky. It is better intended for home use.

It's what ever floats ones boat. I got the Arizer at 1/2 price, which was affordable (less than my flowermate). Otherwise the Arizer was bypassed for too expensive and clunky. It does have a spot and that is what I use more or less at home. As I don't have the ability to save PVB here for brownies, it goes down the toilet.

I have acquired one of these, a one hitter. BTW, I watched a Tommy Chong interview recently, were he stated the best way (his favourite) bar none is a one hitter.

Someone stated here, that the fitter, filters out THC. Got any scientific dadta to support that claim. They say you must change your filter after 4 sessions. I change mine after 2. The resin ring that everyone comments about on a joint, is tar. I do, do trials on my shit, and I have done both. Compare smoking a joint (when I wanted the full Monty (because there is still some good juju in the PVB)) and the slimstick. I notice no delta, but the filter sure tells the tale!

 

[VerdantGreen]

@Switcher56 - thanks, ive been looking for a pipe like that one which uses a filter for years ! - unfortunately it doesn't look like they ship to UK but i'll hopefully find a way.
VG

 

[exploziv]

Sure looks like a great way to puff. Is it easier to clean than a regular pipe? Or does that filter mean more will be deposited in the pipe, before the filter? Is it a simple foam filter, or a new type with activated charcoal layer?