Okay, you want to smoke the buds of a female plant. Picking off your leaves will slow down growth, and cut down yeild, and stress your plant. The plant uses the nergy from those leaves, and cutting them off, you're just taking away the juice that the plant needs to grow nice, plump, potent buds.

Don't smoke the leaves at harvest time, you'll get nothing more than a headache. Take those leaves, from the female plant, toss them in the hash bin, but I suggest making oil from the leaves. Making hash you need a lot of trichs, sugar coated leaves. Using an Iso or butane run, you get ALL of the THC, well 90% of it anyways.

A male plant contains about this --->(...)<---much THC. Not worth smoking because you'd have to smoke a TON of it, I'm talking like 6 FATTIES to catch a buzz, headache inducing, and will give you a bad taste in your mouth. The pollen sacks are NOT Thc, they are pollen, not smokeable.

Stick to smoking the buds, having patience, and use the leaves and trimmings for making hash and oil, then you can smoke it.