Smoking efficiency

I read this online today:

While most users are familiar with varying potencies of marijuana, many are only vaguely aware of differences in the efficiency of various ways to smoke it. Clinical studies indicate that only 10 to 20% of the available THC is transferred from a joint cigarette to the body. A pipe is better, allowing for 45% of the available THC to be consumed. A bong is a very efficient delivery system for marijuana; in ideal conditions the only THC lost is in the exhaled smoke

I don't think I'll ever smoke a joint again. And I think I need to make a bong.

 

i read a lot of stuff online, but i don't believe everything i read.

 

i knew there was an reason why i like smoking out of bongs the best

 

I don't need to read shit. Look at a joint: It smokes like a chimney stack(when you're not hitting it) Now look at a Bong: The smoke is all in the chamber. No smokes escapes, thus it is more efficient. It's common sense, really.

 

although there is 3 things i like about joints
1. you can save the roaches and roll a 2nd generation j w/ lots of resin
2. easy to smoke when you drive
3. easy to dispose of

 

You didn't mention vaporizers. They give you the most THC out of any smoking method.

 

True, but it wasn't just some stoner's home page or something. It was a site with an in depth study about tolerance to cannabinoids. Seems a little more reliable because of that.

 

That's good news for me, I rarely smoke joints. In England, we always mix it with tobacco in joints, which I am not keen on. Not just because tobcco is so dangerous but it makes me feel sick most of the time. I love bongs and pipes, they're so simple. They'd be perfect if they didn't need cleaning! The thing I like about joints is the continuous nature of them. With bongs you're always loading and unloading all the time but you can actually lay back and chill whilst tokin a joint.

 

What about a gravity? That's one wicked way to smoke. Everything goes into the chamber, then directly to your lungs. One way to get instantly fucked up.

 

When u smoke a gravity bong try pushing it down and suck a little bit. It gets you well stoned. you see a difference in the amount of smoke exhaled too but beware of a mouthfull of water, when the top of the bottle reaches the top of the water. I once kept sucking all the air out and sucked up a mouthfull of bong water...not nice i can tell you.

 

I'm not really bothered. I'm satisfied with how stoned I get off a joint.

 

if thats true im PISSED NOW i had a weeks worth of some OK stuff. i dont usually smoke joints but as of recently i have been. it was taking like 20 hits to get stoned( thought it was just week). now im thinking that it was the joint. im pissed its all gone now and i wasted it all in joints. i shoulda known i always usto use bongs/bublers and got WAY higher... now im outa weed and if thats true i wasted it.

 

Well, even if joints waste more weed, 20 hits? That must have been some weak shit you were smoking. The regs around here get's me good and high after 5 or 6 hits.

And to EasyRider, yeah, you get high off a joint like any other way, but you're also wasting a lot of pot by doing it that way. That's the point.

 

Well said, easy.

If you gotta coserve, bongs and carefully loaded, one-hit bowl units rule. A big, cooled bonghit probably gives the most bang for the buck you'll find.

But still, toking a big joint, with the resin building up and each toke getting gnarlier and gnarlier, is whole different dimension from bongs and pipes. Serious hippes, rastas, people in Latin America and people from the southern U.S. with copious supplies of Tex-Mex know what I'm talking about and laugh at college kids who carefully suck down all the smoke from every crumb. But they're not paying $100 for a quarter of kind!

Smoking in any way is awesome, a wonderful activity to be cherished. If I had unlimited supplies, I think it would be big fat joints all the way. But in the real world, with supplies coming and going, a bong sure does the trick without much herb. I think pipes, joints, and bongs all have their place.

But please, people, keep your pipes and bongs well cleaned and the draw fresh and true. Take the time to ream it out when needed! What really sucks is a bong or pipe that's clogged, with a shitty draw. When a piece works, whatever it is, you know it. (personally, I find glass pipes have all-around versatile good performance.... plus they look cool.)

 

^^heh, yeah. We should all start smoking it right out of our hands.

 

well really now. i thought most people knew that though. but i still like mah blunts b/c they taste soo good...and bongs are super to use too!

 

joints are the most effective for your health. of the smoke you do inhale you get more thc/tar than any other method..you lose some on the side stream but its worth it. pipes are no good, they get you higher, but theres no filtration process, esssentially your smoking pureside stream.
bong allow you to optomize the amount of smoke you inhale, but are worse for your health than joints.
vaporizers are obviously the best.

don't believe me?
http://www.norml.org.nz/article130.html
take it from the experts.

 

I assumed everyone knew this. I never smoke joints, like about once a month i'll break down and smoke 1 fattie all to myself whilst watching Woodstock (lol, but you gotta wait to light up until Arlo Guthrie plays "Coming Into Los Angeles", i wont tell you why you'll have to watch it to find out). But i prefer a bong over anything, joints waste pot, you have to use soooooo much to roll a joint the size of a cig, if you dont it's like smoking a fucking piece of paper, and pinner joints are the worst. Bongs take the least amount, cuz you get every bit of smoke from every single crumb, and you just get huge hits cuz the water cools it and the smoke stays in the chamber, and while it sits there before you clear it all the smoke settles to the walls of it and then you get resin build up, bongs are just the best, pipes are nice if the weed isn't to dry, if it's to dry it's to hot and i duno to me when i smoke my pipe the weed taste alot different then when i smoke it in my bong. I prefer pipes for hash or resin, thats it. Bongs are the best, if i smoke a whole joint of mexican weed i'm not even that stoned, if i smoke 1 bowl of that same mexican i was more stoned than from the whole joint, so 2 bowls got me as stoned as one could want to be, 3 bowls you get the flashy thing where you almost feel like your going to pass out, ooooohhhhhh i love that, when you exhale your vision all goes black and you get this lovely warm tingly feeling. CHASE THE RUSH.

 

I always thought bongs were healthier because of the water acting as a filter. I'm not saying you're wrong though dangermouse because you're source seems reliable.......... and you're from canada so you know your stuff

 

well, dangermoose if you read that whole article youd notice that msot of it is inconclusive about how healthy each actually is, and also doesnt examine the bongwater, which would be very important in reaching conclusions.

and whiterabbit, if you smoke wet weed, it should technically be hotter, for it requires more heat to burn.


personally, when i compare the highness i get from a joint to that of a bong, i obviosuly get more high from a bong, but considering how much smoke from a joint is wasted, and the fact that i take much smaller hits and hold it in less, the difference is not as bad as fandango says.

still, to finnish a joint it usualyl takes around 20 hits, and i never smoke joints unles si smoke as much as i can, a whole joint worth of the weed we smoke around here (even mixed with 50% tobacco) (which ends up being around .2 grams of weed, caus we use cardboard roaches too) gets me nicely stoned. not sttooonneed tho unless its good weed. i shared one of these described joints with anotehr guy (with around .3 grams prolly), with killer weed, and i was gooonnee.

but yeh, dont throw your bong out after reading that article, there are mmmmaaaannnnyyyy questions unanswered and techniques that are questionable. though it may well be true that theres more tar per thc.

they need to test the bongwater, thats an incredibly relevant requirement.