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?
Opie Yutts Reviewed by Opie Yutts on . Is most of the THC gone after the 1st hit? I had this thought. Let's say you load a bowl that has 4 good hits in it. You light the first hit, and kind of move the flame around over the bowl as you're taking the hit. The flame is drawn down over pretty much all of the weed in the bowl. Aren't most of the trichomes burned up in the first hit? In other words, isn't most (I don't know, 95%?) of the resin and THC burned up in the first hit, leaving the other hits smoking mostly only plant matter? If there is resin hiding, packed away Rating: 5