Quote Originally Posted by Markass
why use a grinder? why not smoke the 'kief' when it is in trichome form frosted all over my tasty buds? that's the way I see it...I just take a pinch and stuff it in the bowl and burn it..in my knowledge it's the trichomes that get you stoned anyways, I'd rather leave them as intact as possible

simple answer is, because i want to.

i do it the way i like it. i like my buds ground up. i like to press the collected trichromes into hash. i like to place the hash on top of a bowl of freshly ground nugs. mostly i do it because i like to.