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The cool liquid acts as a filter for dust particles and other nastiness that floats along with the smoke, and also it acts as a coolant to further refine the hit. After a few uses you can see the superb filtering properties the water has and that is why the water turns into a foul liquid.Quote:
Originally Posted by diesel72
I heard if you have a large tube like 6inches wide and a foot tall filled with marbles or ice it will cause that smoke to bubble off and the higher surface area will allow the smoke to cool and become cleaner but if dust and tar get trapt in the water I have to assume you also lose THC just a guess... ideas??
plain and simple: you get "higher" when you use a bong for one or both of the following reasons. 1) you are smoking much more weed in a bong hit than you are when you hit a pipe or joint. 2) you are literally forced to inhale the entire hit, instead of letting som escape.......
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Water filters out more THC then it does tar . . . that is according to the only scientific study I've ever seen on the topic. Unfiltered smoke (pipes, joints) contained the most THC. So your likely not getting more THC per amount of weed burnt then other smoking methods,
Probably you are holding the hits in longer and/or taking bigger hits; since the smoke is cooler then most pipes would get it it is easier to "handle". In that sense you could possibly be getting more THC.
here's a link to the study
MAPS/CaNORML vaporizer and waterpipe studies
Because the water cools the smoke, it's easier to inhale more/take a bigger hit. Don't question it, just do it.
Please note that while this may be true, they did not go into very much detailed experimentation on the THC to tar ratio. They didn't provide any numbers which could mean that the amount of thc lost is actually very minimal but the amount of tar filtered is also very small. They also said that if they were using higher grade cannabis that the results could have been different.Quote:
Originally Posted by jsn9333
Plus bongs may filter out other harmful chemicals that would otherwise be entering your lungs.
I've always heard that holding your hit longer to get higher is a myth, that it has everything to do with how much you inhale and how deep you can cram it into your lungs, because sometimes some of the smoke doesn't make it right into your lungs, but instead stops in your throat, thus not getting you as high.
I could see how the water would filter some of the THC out in the process, but I can appreciate a cooler hit than from a blunt or something. But I like my bubbler, a little of both worlds!
Holding your hits is sometimes good to do but always bad, if that makes any sense. lol
IF youre smoking good shit it take longer to absorb all of the THC. If its shwag or mids a few seconds will do
edit: oh yea, its always bad because youre allowing more time to absorb carcinogens and tar in the smoke. Its not as bad though if its high grade because theres less of that bad stuff
more smoke intake in a shorter period of time, the smokes cooler, etc... it's like a shot of smoke. one minute your lungs are just chilling, the next its like WTF SMOKE?!?! ahhhhh. and no im not high right now lmao