Decent
11-13-2005, 10:24 AM
Hey,
I'm new here, some quick background...
I was introduced to smoking via a joint, didn't get high.
Started smoking years later with a hookah, and then water bong. Love them.
In the past few months, I've been using joints, blunts, hookah's, pipe, and I bought a hookah-like piece:
http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/6453/yum24ae.jpg
Not this exact piece, but the closest pic I can find on the internet. Anyway, it looks beautiful, as you can see.. but it's weak. After just one use, the glass by the bowl is a filthy, uncleanable brown. It hits slightly worse than water bongs (still worked though), and it's pretty wasteful.
I'm trying to find the perfect smoking method or piece. So far, this is my humble, novice evalutation.
Joints & Blunts
Pros: 1) Burn really smooth. 2) Depending on how you roll, they actually save weed. 3) Can be stretched or laced with honey, shisha, etc. 4) Great to pass in a group. 5) Black & Mild plastic filters are fucking excellent. 6) Brief sense of esteem and accomplishment from rolling the perfect joint/blunt, that you just can't get from packing a bowl. 7) Gets you high.
Cons: 1) If rolled improperly, all of the "pros" go out the window. Basically, they're just inconsistent. The quality of the joint/blunt depends on who rolled, what papers, etc. 2) Bits of weed can get in your mouth when you pull. 3) You have to keep buying rolling papers or blunts.
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Pipes
Pros: 1) Small, easy to hold. 2) You can salvage unused weed easily. 3) They're often very pretty. 4) Gets you high.
Cons: 1) Wooden pipes taste disgusting after less than a week. 2) Very difficult to clean. 3) Glass pipes are cool, but you have to keep re-lighting the weed, burning all kinds of THC I assume. 4) One bowl is never enough, especially if you're sharing, so you have to keep repacking. 5) Hits/pulls the weakest, easily... especially if not cleaned thoroughly and regularly. See #2.
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Hookahs
Pros: 1) The smoke goes down soooo fucking smoothly. And if you put ice water in the hookah, that's a wrap. Nothing I've ever smoked comes remotely close to the feeling of a hookah pull. 2) Passing a hookah hose in a group is even easier and more fun than joints (and no droppin ashes on people). 3) So damn pretty and cool looking. 4) You can mix your weed with shisha, to stretch it and flavor it. Mint, peach, apple, etc. 5) Gets you high.
Cons: 1) Cleaning it is a bitch. 2) Charcoal is perhaps the least convenient way of lighting weed. First you have to spend minutes lighting, preparing it, and God forbid it goes out. It's great when it lasts as long as the weed, but even then, relighting more and packing another bowl is somewhat inconvenient. 3) Sometimes I taste the foil in the smoke. This may be the type of foil I'm using, or how I pack the bowl, but it's starting to disgust me.
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Water Bongs
Pros: 1) Burns really great. Not as good as blunts or hookah's, but better than pipes, imo. 2) Little to no weed is wasted. What you packed gets smoked. 3) Good for solo use. 4) Get you high.
Cons: 1) The bowl is somewhat small, just like pipes. Lots of repacking involved. 2) Not very convenient for group use.
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I've been searching these forums, and googling some pros and cons. The piece probably has to be glass, because the taste of wood and metal are starting to annoy me (they're not as safe either). And it has to be easy to prepare and clean, so that rules out hookahs (though I love them).
Here are some pieces that I'm considering. Let me know if you have any good/bad experiences with these, or any other pieces to recommend.
- Swan necked Glass Bubbler Bong (http://www.weedcity.com/shop/product.asp?numPageStartPosition=1&PT_ID=186&P_ID=836&numCurrencyID=2)
- Glass Pipe (http://www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/online_headshop/Glass_Pipe.cfm?iProductID=1306&iProductCategoryID=262)
- 8 Glass Spiral Pipe (http://www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/online_headshop/8_Glass_Spiral_Pipe.cfm?iProductID=1305&iProductCategoryID=262)
- Boxed Glass Pipe (http://www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/online_headshop/Boxed_Glass_Pipe.cfm?iProductID=2137&iProductCategoryID=262)
- Bushmaster Mini Glass 2 Bubble Bong (http://everyonedoesit.com/online_headshop/Bushmaster_Mini_Glass_2_Bubble_Bong.cfm?iProductID =2403&iProductCategoryID=445)
- Medium Glass Waterpipe (http://shop.grasscity.com/shop/grasscity/9031m.html?id=aEmpdSES)
Thanks,
Decent
I'm new here, some quick background...
I was introduced to smoking via a joint, didn't get high.
Started smoking years later with a hookah, and then water bong. Love them.
In the past few months, I've been using joints, blunts, hookah's, pipe, and I bought a hookah-like piece:
http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/6453/yum24ae.jpg
Not this exact piece, but the closest pic I can find on the internet. Anyway, it looks beautiful, as you can see.. but it's weak. After just one use, the glass by the bowl is a filthy, uncleanable brown. It hits slightly worse than water bongs (still worked though), and it's pretty wasteful.
I'm trying to find the perfect smoking method or piece. So far, this is my humble, novice evalutation.
Joints & Blunts
Pros: 1) Burn really smooth. 2) Depending on how you roll, they actually save weed. 3) Can be stretched or laced with honey, shisha, etc. 4) Great to pass in a group. 5) Black & Mild plastic filters are fucking excellent. 6) Brief sense of esteem and accomplishment from rolling the perfect joint/blunt, that you just can't get from packing a bowl. 7) Gets you high.
Cons: 1) If rolled improperly, all of the "pros" go out the window. Basically, they're just inconsistent. The quality of the joint/blunt depends on who rolled, what papers, etc. 2) Bits of weed can get in your mouth when you pull. 3) You have to keep buying rolling papers or blunts.
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Pipes
Pros: 1) Small, easy to hold. 2) You can salvage unused weed easily. 3) They're often very pretty. 4) Gets you high.
Cons: 1) Wooden pipes taste disgusting after less than a week. 2) Very difficult to clean. 3) Glass pipes are cool, but you have to keep re-lighting the weed, burning all kinds of THC I assume. 4) One bowl is never enough, especially if you're sharing, so you have to keep repacking. 5) Hits/pulls the weakest, easily... especially if not cleaned thoroughly and regularly. See #2.
------------------------------
Hookahs
Pros: 1) The smoke goes down soooo fucking smoothly. And if you put ice water in the hookah, that's a wrap. Nothing I've ever smoked comes remotely close to the feeling of a hookah pull. 2) Passing a hookah hose in a group is even easier and more fun than joints (and no droppin ashes on people). 3) So damn pretty and cool looking. 4) You can mix your weed with shisha, to stretch it and flavor it. Mint, peach, apple, etc. 5) Gets you high.
Cons: 1) Cleaning it is a bitch. 2) Charcoal is perhaps the least convenient way of lighting weed. First you have to spend minutes lighting, preparing it, and God forbid it goes out. It's great when it lasts as long as the weed, but even then, relighting more and packing another bowl is somewhat inconvenient. 3) Sometimes I taste the foil in the smoke. This may be the type of foil I'm using, or how I pack the bowl, but it's starting to disgust me.
------------------------------
Water Bongs
Pros: 1) Burns really great. Not as good as blunts or hookah's, but better than pipes, imo. 2) Little to no weed is wasted. What you packed gets smoked. 3) Good for solo use. 4) Get you high.
Cons: 1) The bowl is somewhat small, just like pipes. Lots of repacking involved. 2) Not very convenient for group use.
------------------------------
I've been searching these forums, and googling some pros and cons. The piece probably has to be glass, because the taste of wood and metal are starting to annoy me (they're not as safe either). And it has to be easy to prepare and clean, so that rules out hookahs (though I love them).
Here are some pieces that I'm considering. Let me know if you have any good/bad experiences with these, or any other pieces to recommend.
- Swan necked Glass Bubbler Bong (http://www.weedcity.com/shop/product.asp?numPageStartPosition=1&PT_ID=186&P_ID=836&numCurrencyID=2)
- Glass Pipe (http://www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/online_headshop/Glass_Pipe.cfm?iProductID=1306&iProductCategoryID=262)
- 8 Glass Spiral Pipe (http://www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/online_headshop/8_Glass_Spiral_Pipe.cfm?iProductID=1305&iProductCategoryID=262)
- Boxed Glass Pipe (http://www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/online_headshop/Boxed_Glass_Pipe.cfm?iProductID=2137&iProductCategoryID=262)
- Bushmaster Mini Glass 2 Bubble Bong (http://everyonedoesit.com/online_headshop/Bushmaster_Mini_Glass_2_Bubble_Bong.cfm?iProductID =2403&iProductCategoryID=445)
- Medium Glass Waterpipe (http://shop.grasscity.com/shop/grasscity/9031m.html?id=aEmpdSES)
Thanks,
Decent