You have to wait until they turn into pine cones and the lupulin glands have matured. Otherwise it's as dumb as smoking the first cottonball buds on your cannabis plant!

It's a pretty obvious effect almost immediately. Just keep smoking up until you get to the level of sleepiness you like!

I hear ya gmoney, I used to use Nyquil to get better sleep but it just gives me a horrible hung-over logey feeling the next day.
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . Smoking hops Okay, my newest bit of useful/useless info: I was reading up on medicinal herbs, particulary those with sedative or anti-anxiety effects, and came across a reference to people actually SMOKING hops. This isn't TOO surprising since hops is the closest family member to cannabis, they are both classified as the Cannabacae, and as you can see from the attached thumbnails they're virtually identical in how they show their sex parts. Lupulin, produced by the female flowers of hops, is a Rating: 5