Is most of the THC gone after the 1st hit?

Well I stand corrected and I have had the wrong idea for the past 25 years, along with all my college buddies from years ago.

When I take an individual leaf that is inside a bud, and look at it under a microscope, I see hundreds, if not thousands of little balls of resin. Some are kind of on the end of long sticks, and some are just stuck directly to the leaf. I have always thought that it is these balls of resin that get you 99% of your high, and about 1% or less of whatever gets you high is inside the actual plant matter. I guess it was from discussions about this in college, and things that I have read in the past, telling me that there is very little THC and other stuff in the actual vegatable matter. I have always thought that if you use some method to try and extract the balls of resin, there is no way that you can get it all if you still have vegative matter left. It seems obvious that there must be some left on the plant matter, and that is why you still get stoned from it, not because it is deep inside the plant matter.

So if I had some way to gaurrantee that I got all those balls off that leaf that was deep inside a nice frosty bud, you guys are telling me that leaf would still get me pretty much just as stoned, or at least good and stoned if I smoked enough of them. I find this hard to believe, but hey, majority rules - everybody else must be right.

So what percentage of the good stuff would you guys say is in the resin balls, and what percentage is inside the cells of the plant matter? Just curious, I thought it was like 99 to 1. Would you guys say it is more like 50/50?

YES thats pretty much what happens persay but it depends on the bud and how fat the nugget is and the potency cause ur still gonna get high no matter ill loose soem tch but there willstill always be some there to FUck you up

Ok, heres the deal. IanCurtis pretty much summed it up. I'm not bullshittin ya, I grew the damn things in cali for a while, and pretty much grew up on the knowledge. Yes, the trichomes have the most amount of THC in the plant. The hairs have the 2nd most THC in the plant. The way the plant grows, is that the pistils (hairs) soak up the sunlight (or whatever light) and flood the buds with THC. The leaves also soak in the light energy, but as the buds mature there are enough hairs to soak up the energy and bring it directly to the buds instead of supplying the stalks and such with the energy, so a lot of fan leaves are less necessary as harvest time nears. The buds themselves are packed with THC by the time they are harvested, cured and bagged and end up in your pocket and pipe. Yes, the smoke of the first hit will always contain the most THC than the other hits to come, but that is only because you burn the crystals and the hairs. Now another point was brought up, they referred to it as "cornering the bowl", and thats just common courtesy if you aren't the only guy on the rotation of the bowl. Let everyone get a fresh hit of the crystals, hairs and flowers. But here's something else to think about; you said the heat from the flame will most likely burn most of the THC in the bowl (by using the vaporizer philosophy). Now, its true that this can happen, so don't torch the weed! The less flame needed to smoke, the better. But next time you get a really crystalized bud, pack it into a bowl, fire it up, and then flip the bud over. I'll be damned if there aren't crystals still stuck to the bud on the un-burned side of the bud. So no, the first guy to hit the bowl is not ruining it for the rest of the smokers. Any questions?