Holding a Hit - Make You Higher?

[Dave Byrd]

I don't think holding a hit will make you much higher but it should slightly increase the resin which sticks to your lungs which seems logical to me. I understand that the logical thing is not always what happens when you don't understand the mechanism assiciated with the gas exchange in your lungs (which is my case) and I don't recommend holding a hit but it seems it would logically get your at least a little higher.

Increasing the time you allow resin to stick to your lungs is what you don't want unless you want to increase the amount of tar deposits you accumulate over time.

That's apparently what you do want. You're clearly someone who needs to hold his hits for as long as you possibly can both in order to get 1% higher and to hold onto the position you've taken here.

So hold your hits as long as you can. Don't give your lungs or your health the benefit of the doubt. Just go for it. Eek every last bit of crap out of that hit. Someday when you're willing to educate yourself on how and when gases, vapors, oxygen, combustion chemicals, tars and particulates are absorbed (or caught and stored when they're not absorbed), you'll likely see things differently.

Dave Byrd Reviewed by Dave Byrd on 12-27-2007. Holding a Hit - Make You Higher? I was listening to a recent NORML podcast and they were saying that your lungs absorbe all the THC in smoke instantly and that holding a hit does nothing but hurt your lungs. Is this true? I tried only holding a hit for a second then exhale the last few times I've smoked and it seemed to give me a cleaner buzz, not any less or more of a buzz. I didn't cough, or choke while smoking either. Rating: 5