How much do you light it?

[EciRonTog]

My friend likes to really fire the stuff up with his lighter. He burns it all really fast, and itâ??s impossible to hold it in; always end up coughing like hell.

When Iâ??m alone smoking, I tend to only light a small part of the bowl at a time, so the smoke is thinner and smoother and I can hold it in longer, and it takes longer to smoke the bowl.

Are there any particular positives or negatives of doing it either way? Is one way going to get you higher than the other?

[Mello.as.Hello]

technically, your friend is wasting weed.

It doesn't really "waste" the weed, but when you burn it that fast and you can't hold it in, not only are you bumming your own trip (cause you're coughing) but the weed continues to burn after you take your hit, so that's wasted weed too.

You have the right idea. Corner the bowl, take in as much as you feel comfortable with. Don't worry about your friend. When he goes broke and can't afford to buy any weed, you'll still be flying. (cause you get high either way, his is just more rapid.)

Enjoy.

[bongo]

im smokingt

[Phresh as it Gets]

if you keep the lighter on it actually does burn the weed to nothingness, so light it once(while sucking, duh) and then let go while still sucking, and call your friend a noob for me

[IntrepidS]

I like to use a match and light the entire bowl at once. Then I can take like 2 or 4 big tokes and hold them in for a bit. After that I take another lighter and burn what is left and suck really hard so I burn all of it completely.

[High phy]

had to learn that the hard way:o . Running out of weed :D lol. We all where noobs once :rolleyes: .

[Bauman]

Yeah, I used to Marathon all the time, by that I mean that with a group of 5 people you each take a hit and try to hold it in until the joint/bong/whatever makes it your way again.

Then I realized that I didn't get that much more high out of holding the smoke in. Plus it can't be good for your lungs, as the bad shit in the weed has longer to be absorbed by your lungs. I think the cons outweigh the pros for holding your hits.

So now I just take my toke and enjoy it. It is true, there is a science to lighting the bowl just enough. With my nice wood pipe (that fits a gram), I can light it and pass it around and it will stay lit till it's done. Some of my friends don't know that and always light it when they get it... in the process wasting weed.

But, hey me and my friends have enough access to inexpensive (but not cheap quality) herb, but meh. It's too much of a hassle to tell them not to light it. I like to just enjoy the moment.

[koshea]

practice....one day you will be able to do what i just learned...take a big ass hit AND be able to hold it and only burn a small corner

[roll it up]

thats wut i do,i light a little chunk of the bowl,and keep hitting it until the cherry goes completely out,then when it is completely out,i light it back up,but when lit,i dont use the lighter so it wont burn the weed to a crisp and go beat in one hit

[KillaBuzz]

i take my bongz in 1 hit, but thatz not ta say i smoke it all quickly. i put the lighter on it(an suck obviously) till a cherry beginz, then i take the lighter off, an let the entire bowl burn slowly. when the cherry iz juss about ta go out i pull it all thru. thatz how yah take a bong in one hit without wastin. coughin aint bummin out yer high, i mean most ppl wood think it must lessen yer high cuz yer lettin all that smoke go early. well when ya cough, yer scratchin yer lungz an throat, that combined wit the air pushin the smoke quickly, will actually make ya higher. anytime ive smoked shit thatz harsh an makez u cough, i get higher then i normally wood even if i had held the entire hit in untill there wuz no smoke left.
PeAcE

[BOgart.bitch]

waste not want not.. dont burnt up all of the weed in one or two hits ;p you have the right idea.

[Bauman]

I concur, coughing seems to increase the high. When I cough it's really violent, and I think I pulled a muscle in my back once just from coughing. So I avoid really harsh hits like I avoid shit weed. It's just not worth it.

[reallybaked]

I concur, coughing seems to increase the high. When I cough it's really violent, and I think I pulled a muscle in my back once just from coughing. So I avoid really harsh hits like I avoid shit weed. It's just not worth it.

Exactly! The more you cough, the more you get off!! :D

[RunawayAmbulance]

Generally, lotsa light hits. I hate it when people torch the bowl and try to be all bad ass and cough it all back up, its like hey jackass thanks! At least they don't blow out the bowl like one of my friends has twice in a row now...

[opiuser]

practice....one day you will be able to do what i just learned...take a big ass hit AND be able to hold it and only burn a small corner

Hell ya man... almost all of my friends torch the fuckin bowl and i never get any green hits... but i've been smoking since i was 11 (im 16 now) and i have become very experienced... i consider smoking pot an art, and once you master it, your weed lasts longer, gets u stonder, and your lungs are a lot stronger...

I light just a little bit of the bowl (about 1/5 of the right side) and then i use my tongue and throat to replicate the bubbling action of a bong and also pump... i get massive hits and then hold them until i have to let them out or the pipe gets back to me... I think that torching the bowl is a waste of weed, and i would like to slap people for it... and i would also like to slap people for not holding their hits... it takes 30 seconds for half of the thc in the smoke to condense and enter your bloodstream... so i usually make people follow the 5 second rule

[Belleza]

I'm fucking stoned off my ass gachoyamade. All I saw was the more you cough the more you get off.

Ps; I am really reallly really fucking stoned. The best high i've ever had. EVER. lol

[opiuser]

coughing does make the weed effect u more... it causes your throat to get small tears, giving a direct path between smoke and blood, plus it makes your diaphragm stronger and ur throat too

[sugarmagnolia]

waste not want not.. dont burnt up all of the weed in one or two hits ;p you have the right idea.
that's awesome. my dad says waste not want not.

Bongs: Usually get it going with a nice sized hit. try to prevent any cherry on the bong. Later towards the end go for Godzilla hits. Gotta finish that sucker.

pipes: light lightly until u feel a little tingle in the lungs then pass.

joints: don't be a douchebag and use ur full lung capacity when inhaling. i have a friend that does that. when someone does that stick ur hand out and urge them to pass it. May be a rude thing to do, but fuck them!

edit: last sentence sounds really sketchy :). I mean it may be rude to urge them on, but u gotta do what u gotta do to stop a bogart.

[opiuser]

why shouldn't i fill up my lungs when i smoke a joint? i fill my lungs all the way all the time

and with the bong... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HIT ANYTHING IF IT DOESNT HAVE A CHERRY... dumbass

[orangelicker]

no a cherrys when it keeps burning after u hit it...and it like burns well hes saying dont make it burn after ur done with ur hit.

[Bman719]

technically, your friend is wasting weed.

It doesn't really "waste" the weed, but when you burn it that fast and you can't hold it in, not only are you bumming your own trip (cause you're coughing) but the weed continues to burn after you take your hit, so that's wasted weed too.

You have the right idea. Corner the bowl, take in as much as you feel comfortable with. Don't worry about your friend. When he goes broke and can't afford to buy any weed, you'll still be flying. (cause you get high either way, his is just more rapid.)

Enjoy.

Couldn't have said it better myself. When I smoke with my friend he packs way more than I do and I feel forced to take bigger hits than i can take (since we match bowls) and when i'm by myself I can get high off of a 1/3 bowl or 1/2 bowl...

[Buck268]

Lotta replies, but I'll my $0.02 anyways :p

I have a herb conservation and maximumization strategy when it comes to sparkin a bowl. I spark parts at a time (assuming a large enough bowl, unlike my tiny ass new piece) and attempt to fully burn the herb under the top all before I toast the top(takes some skill to mvoe the cherry like that). This way the last hit is always greens. Unfortunately, my new piece is too small to do this, but I got real good at it with my last 2 pieces....

[THC4UandME]

well personally on the green hit i like to hover my liter just over the weed so you kinda get the vaporizer affect after that i just smoke like its pose to be smoked. My liter never really touches the weed just close enough to get it goin ya i think that works to keep it from being torched.

[sugarmagnolia]

why shouldn't i fill up my lungs when i smoke a joint? i fill my lungs all the way all the time

and with the bong... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO HIT ANYTHING IF IT DOESNT HAVE A CHERRY... dumbass

i meant don't take too long hitting the joint. If ur gonna fill ur lungs all the way then be quick with it. It's no fun watching someone down the whole joint becasue they don't know there lungs are full and inhale for 20 seconds.

well I meant don't keep it cherrying after u hit it. Hit it and let the bowl burn out or at least not cherry before u pass it off.

[daZenfmeister]

fuck seriouslly dudes joint bogarts piss me off so much, i got a little bitch named Carter and he fucking takes like 2 mins on his turn and its not even his fucking weed.

[passtotheleft45]

when hitting take in air through your nose and keep hitting


it cools off the smoke and makes it a lot easier to get bigger hits

[Nullific]

The more/longer you apply flame to the bowl, the hotter it gets, the more THC is destroyed and noxious chemicals inhaled.

[kyle]

Going back to the talk about the joint, I hate it when people smoke half the fuckin' thing in one hit.
As for hits, I corner the bowl as much as possible, and take small enough hits that I dont cough up a lung. I try to cherry the bowl as much as possible.

[Bman719]

it takes 30 seconds for half of the thc in the smoke to condense and enter your bloodstream... so i usually make people follow the 5 second rule

Get your facts straight! you've smoked weed for this long and you don't even know how long it fucking takes... weak dude.... here's how it really is. Fact is, 97% of the THC is absorbed into your lungs after holding the hit in 3 seconds... holding it in any longer is really unneccesary... cause you won't get much higher if any higher at all... but i still do like to hold in my hits as long as possible... i like to get every bit of THC as i can... but get you're facts straight man..... THC absorbs WAY faster than the other nasty shit....

[1e64102e]

My Cousin's sister does the same fucking shit. Bitch.