Public Safety Warning:Clean your Pieces

[Laxpunker]

Well today I found an old spoon. Nothing remarkable about it aside from the fact I found it over a year since it went missing. It slipped out of a drawer in my desk and fell onto the floor enclosed by the desk (hard to explain), I moved my desk today and low n' behold there it is. As I'm about to pack a bowl I notice that there is an abnormally large amount of resin in the bowl, so much so that it needs to be scrapped before packing. As I take my paper clip to it I notice that it's not quite resin...in fact it looks like...mold.

Which brings me to this thread. Most of us don't leave a pipe on the floor for fourteen months, however it got me thinking. How many of us may have gotten a lungful of mold? I've never seen anything like this before, I've gotten mold on my harvest before...but never on resin. So with this in mind please clean your pipes at least monthly...if not for your health for the taste of your bud.

Now before you chime in and say "I would have noticed mold" I did a bit of "testing". I took the pipe outside wearing a painters mask (best I could do on short notice) and lit the mold on fire. It burned with very little smoke, and the fire removed nearly all traces of it. While my bowl was left with little patches on it from a quick lighter pass over a smaller mold infestation may be wiped out with one lungfull if you catch my drift.

So let my near mishap be a lesson. And no I'm not a dirty slob, just slightly stupid when it comes to looking for things.

 

[Guest]

Damn....

Thanks for the heads up Laxpunker

A lungful of mold would just ruin my day......among other things

Now I dont exactly have any pieces that have been MIA for 14 months, but one has been gone for quite a while

So if I do find it, it will be thoroughly inspected before use

Cheers

 

[Guest]

hey Brand, like the Ginsberg quote

 

[Sc0oBz]

Thanks for the warning. I always look for mold on herb, but I guess I never really suspected my piece.

 

[Guest]

Thanks namkha,

I found it in the Spliffs book

Great read......

 

[Guest]

you should have taken pics!

 

[jaykush]

i found a 2 year old lost pipe. it fell on me from up top somewhere when i moved a box. scared the shit out of me i thaught it was something else. its a must to clean it though, anyone who didnt is a dumbass.

 

[Guest]

first..thanks for the heads up lax...I'm def. one to neglect my glass.

2nd...heres a story:
(mostly mold related)

-driving to Alaska spring 1999

-glacier national park camp ground in Montana....going into Canada tomorrow

-i dont want any trouble at the border so I bury the last OZ of Mexicos finest Brick Weed (right in the national park by the lake in a jar) mediocre at best...just in case i come back thru.

-worked almost 3 months on a halibut boat, and came back thru w/ almost 10 grand in cash..and yeah I got sweated hardcore for that much money at the US/canada border into the lower 48.

-25 sum miles later I pick up my stash, and grab a spot in the PACKED Nat. Park C-ground.

I'm in a 74 dodge (hi-top) camper van.

the weed was VERY wet and MOLDY...jar wasnt sealed well, and I burried it real close to the lake.

So..I fire up the oven...break up the weed, and proceed to dry it out sum on a cookie sheet in the oven.

5 minutes later..the WHOLE campground reaks of weed...and there are at leat 20 "tents" in view...and lots of RV's.

....so long story short...no one ratted me out, I got way more high from the moldy old weed than from when I dropped it off...and I was a paranoid freak for almost 2 whole days.

was it the "sort of cure"...or the mold that made such a big difference?

I had smoked quite a bit of weed in AK before driving back down...so my tolerance was pretty high.





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[Gangabiss]

Oh yea that was me Yukon...I stashed some of my kiff in your jar for safe keeping.

You didn't smoke it all did you?!

 

[kurlyq2g]

oh i have seen this- must be the elusive hashmold.... yeah.... thaaats it..

 

[Guest]

hand-rubbed charas like you will find sadhus often smoking in India will often get a bit moldy, not least it still has a fairly high water content

I would think the weed got you rocked because of the cure
this is just what they do in places like Malawi, where they bury the traditional cobs for ages in order to produce balistically strong psychedelic smoke

curing is where it's at

cheers,

Namkha