Does holding in smoke make you higher?

We have all played the game taxi or a similar version when you pass the joint round and hold in your hit until the spliff returns to you, but does it make you any higher?

After much testing and discussion with some intellectual stoners with medical backgrounds we built up a few theories.

1. Holding marijuana smoke in after taking a hit gives it more time inside your lungs which having a high surface area allows more THC from the smoke to disperse into your bloodstream.

2. Holding your breathe for a long time will make you dizzy as your brain lacks oxygen, therefore holding your breathe after inhaling cannabis rather than oxygen will make you even dizzier.

After much 'experimentation' we came to the conclusion that there is no difference between holding in a toke for 10 seconds and 30 seconds except the oxygen depravation which makes you slightly dizzier.

What are the benefits of marijuana

Although there are two sides to this argument i would like to share the positive side of smoking marijuana.
There are several legitimate medical conditions for which cannabis is a great remedy/painkiller like fibromyalgia, migraines, insomnia, post surgery, slipped discs etc. This article is not geared toward the medical side of marijuana and rather the pros of recreational use of cannabis.

The positive mental effects of cannabis:

1. Marijuana allows your mind to think in a different light, from a different perspective and can help you concentrate more intensely on the subject you are thinking of. (i.e some of the greatest inventors and physicists were potheads)

2. Marijuana can relax you if you suffer from anxiety attacks.

3. If you suffer from depression then not only cannabis can help but the social element of a pot smoking circle can have a positive social effect on you.

The positive physical effects of cannabis:

1. If you have trouble sleeping, smoking marijuana can help you get sleep and is regularly, legitimately prescribed by doctors to patients that have trouble sleeping or suffer from insomnia to help them get 40 winks.

2. When high on weed you enjoy everything more like sex, music and munching. This point also stands for the positive mental effects. You appreciate smaller elements of everyday routines from the scent of food to things as extreme as the taste of water.

There is more to come on this subject . . . Please comment

The Best Places To Smoke Weed

Here is a list of the most common places to have a pot smoking session

1. The car

So many people smoking in the moving room for reasons such as:

 - No smoking in the house
 - You are already halfway to picking up more weed or munch
 - Hotboxing the car

2. A shed


Smoking sheds are quite common and a very chilled place to smoke some ganja. The best things about smoking in sheds are:

 - No smoking in the house
 - Hotboxing the shed
 - Privacy
 - No need to keep it clean
 - It can be decorated however you please

3. The Park

On a nice sunny day there is nothing better than heading down to the park with a football and some bud, finding a nice patch of grass and just getting high. why?

 - Enjoy your high in some nice weather
 - Open space to run around in
 - Feed the ducks some brownies ;)


4. The Beach



How picturesque it is to have a smoke on the beach. The wind, the sea, the sun and the girls create a great atmosphere to enjoy a nice long session. Add a little music and a frisbee to the equation and you have a memorable day out.



5. The cellar
There is something comforting about chilling having a smoke in a cellar. Underground, you are protected from the elements in a little cocoon.  That 70's show had it right!

6. The Bath

The bathtub must be the most chilled out place to smoke weed. Fiil the tub up, pour some bubbles in, roll a fatty and sink into that silky, steamy pot of water chilled as sloth on sleeping pills.


I think i have covered the best of the weed smoking session spots, if you think i have missed out any please comment.

Happy Smoking

How to stop pulling whitey when smoking weed

It's happened to most of us and regularly occurs to some smokers after having a joint or two. The feeling of nausea, thoughts racing through your mind, the shivering and the pale complexion.

Here is the answer to the age old question how to stop being sick from weed?

To stop a pulling a whitey:

1. Find a quite spot without distraction so you can relax, make sure it's quite private as you may well fall asleep here :)

2. Drink fruit juice or eat a piece of fruit as vitamin C has been shown to bring down your high. (An apple usually does the trick of stopping you from being high.)

3. Drink water to flush out the THC from your bloodstream.

4. The main thing is to just try and relax and your high will pass with time.

What is the most effective way to smoke weed?

I have been asked this question time and time again and if you are reading this you are wondering the answer too.

There are several different ways to smoke weed and several different forms of weed to smoke.

You may think the straight forward answer to this question is just to vaporize but this is not always the best option as you don't really want to vaporize hash oil or THC crystals.

Lets analyze each form of mary jane and test each one against the 5 main types of smoking weed.

Spliff 

This is naturally the least effective way to smoke skunk as the weed is mixed with tobacco before being rolled up in the paper. This in effect dilutes the weed limiting the amount you can put in a joint. However honey oil, hash and THC crystals can be mixed in spliff giving the joint an advantage over other contenders.

Glass Pipe

This is a quick one hitter and depending on how many you smoke or how big the bowl is on your pipe, although you are smoking pure bud you will still get a similar high from a spliff. You can smoke hash in a pipe aswell but it must be mixed with tobacco so that the hash burns properly. What brings this method down even more is the fact you can't really put oil or crystals in it.

Bong

This is a nice way to smoke skunk. Whether you mix your skunk with tobacco or not a solid hitting bong taken down in one draw gives you a nice rush from taking suck a deep toke. This high is more to do with replacing the 30 seconds of air you would breathe with weed. Just like the pipe the bong also misses out on honey oil and crystals which lowers it's contention for the ultimate weed smoking tool. But mix some hash and skunk together in an ice bong from Roor and you'll be chillin'.

Blunt

Grab a flavoured tobacco leaf, stuff it with as much chronic as you can, take a hit and blow out a thick yellow cloud of smoke. This is the way to enjoy your weed. Undiluted by tobacco, this method gives you a pure hit of bud making it more effective than a spliff. Unfortunately hash cannot be smoked this way unless mixed in with weed and made as a cocktail in which case it's AWESOME! You can also lace the blunt with hash oil or crystals which gives it another advantage over pipes and bongs and making it the best way of smoking weed.

Vaporizer

This method of smoking is renowned for being the most effective as it just heats up the trichomes in the bud for your enjoyment and leaves the rest of the bud and side effects intact leaving you a pure hit of heavenly smoke.

Unfortunately they are not designed for use with hash, oil or crystals as these are already purer forms of weed.

In conclusion the most effective way of smoking Bud is in a vaporizer but if you have any two of the above ingredients (weed, hash, oil, crystals) roll it all up in a blunt wrap for the full effects.

Peace

How to buy a vaporizer

So you have decided that vaporizing is the most effective and healthiest way of burning your buds but have no idea where to start when buying one.

We shall start this article with the question - What is a Vaporizer?

A vaporizer is usually electric and the process it uses to give you such a nice his is vaporization. Vaporization is a process that occurs when the bud is heated not to it's burning point but to a temperature in which the THC crystals in the marijuana turn into a very thin vapour. This vapour is then inhaled by the pothead just like they would a bong hit, leaving the ganja bud intact and saving the smoker from inhaling other elements of the bud.

Why is a vaporizer more effective and healthier?

- It removes tar and carcinogens from your smoke
- There is no need to mix your bud with tobacco
- There are less side effects (cotton mouth etc)
- It is a cleaner high without all the other elements of the bud involved

These are just a few of the pros of using a vaporizer.

So how do i choose the right vaporizer for me?

Price

The first issue when buying anything is the price. Typically you want to spend around £50/$80 on a decent working vaporizer that will last you a while. if price is an issue you can pick up a Vapbong
from www.everyonedoesit.com.
If you are looking for a more high end vaporizer like a volcano, then you can spend anything from £100 up to around £500.

Usability 

This next issue deals with how easy the vaporizer is to use. Make sure you look into how easy the vaporizer is to:

- set up
- clean
- Electricity source / battery power
- Timing it takes for the vaporizer to heat up your bud

Try and find one thats the least awkward for you to use.

Portability

You must also decide whether you want a pocket sized little one hitter, a mammoth Vape that has it's own place at the dinner table or a standard portable one that you can move around with you. The 'iolite' is a good example of a portable vaporizer for the cheeky hitter. This will set you back £150. A 'volcano' will become the new idol of your living room or you could keep a standard 'blue meanie' in your car.

What ever you decide shop around first and ask as many questions as you want to your friends or at your local headshop.

Smoke up

What does 420 mean, and where does it originate?

The subject of where 420 originates from is quite controversial.


Myths & Rumors of 420 origins


- Some say that 420 is a police code for weed.
- Some people say that 420 is the number of chemicals found in marijuana but in reality it's around 100 less that that.
- There are also the rumors that 4:20 is tea time in Holland when everyone sparks up a doobie.


420 History


According to a High times article, the term 420 originated in 1971 at San Rafael High School. A gang of about 12 people called the Waldos used to meet up daily for a smoke. They would say 420 to each other which is the time they planned to meet up at the statue on campus of Louis Pasteur. This 'secret' code for getting high spread among the generation of people who must be pushing 60 by now.

When interviewed by high times they quoted "We did discover we could talk about getting high in front of our parents without them knowing by using the phrase 420." 

Currently


The pot heads favourite number 420, originally invented by the Waldos as a secret code for getting high has grown into an internationally recognised symbol for the great herb.
- The 20th of April 4/20 is now national weed day
- 420 magazine is one of the most popular pot smokers magazines in the world.
- Many people around the world try and keep up the tradition of sparking up some ganja at 4:20pm, daily.

How to refuse a drugs search from a police officer

Whether in a car or on foot in the U.S or the U.K a policeman cannot search you or your car without consent or a warrant. That is the law.

Don't be rude or disrespectful to a police officer or they will make trouble for you. At the same time do not the cop push you around or intimidate you.

This first video is what not to do if you get pulled over:



When you get pulled over tell everyone in the car to keep their mouths shut as they withhold the right not to answer any questions (plead the 5th).

Be dominant and courteous and don't act like you have something to hide.
This tutorial shows you what to do in such a case:



Thank you officer have a nice day! Cough (TWAT)

Stash Trick 2: How to avoid police sniffer dogs

There's nothing worse than getting pulled over by the cops when you have weed except when there is a sniffer dog involved.

This video explains one of the ways of sending the sniffer dog off trail of the scent by replacing it with another scent. This can be done by spraying some sort of deer hunters scent or keeping an animal or pet around.

More details can be viewed in this crazy tutorial:

How to quit/give up smoking weed

Most smokers come to a point where they have had enough or are just overwhelmed and need a break.

Either way it is hard especially if you are smoking very heavily.

Rule 1: THERE IS NO FINAL SMOKE

Taking a break
Psychologically you know that you'll be able to have a smoke after a date you set yourself wether it be a week or a year and the looking forward to this spurs you on a lot.

Quitting
This is harder than taking a break. The method is to follow the advice i will give and you will soon forget about weed.

You are taking a break because weed is interfering with your life in some way.

Method
Make sure you have prepared activity for your break whether it be a 2 month body building / weight loss program, a project due in at college/work a hobby or you just have the desire to stop smoking.

Obsess over the project and social life which brings me to rule number 2.

Rule 2
You will come to realize that a lot of your friends smoke and you will find it hard to hang out with them without smoking. They may be good people but you can not be with them while they are smoking as the temptation will break the weak-willed.

Boredom
Although you have your project and are trying to keep busy and are socializing with non smokers you will still be bored and you didn't realize it but you were this bored when you smoked and that's why you will think about smoking at this time. Just watch TV, surf the net, exercise or whatever.

My personal method
I quit because i was smoking so much i didn't know what was going on in the world, i was failing at everything and i never got high because i always was high.

Side effects
Luckily non of the extreme paranoia or other side effects set in which can and do happen very often when you smoke a lot, yet another thing to put you off marijuana.
If you feel any long term effects setting in or people have told you that you show some of these effects then it's time for a break / permanaent break.

Rules:
1. There is no final smoke
2. Excommunicate yourself from the stoner community
3. You will be bored
4. Cigarettes/shisha are ok

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How to check the quality of weed

By now you should know the basics as in the difference between hash (solid), Schwag (pubic weed) and fat juicy buds of marijuana.

I will run through a quick way of how to tell if the weed is good and the first thing to do is to make sure it's not schwag.
This is pretty easy, schwag is like hay, dosn't have a strong cannabis smell and is full of seeds and stems.
It looks like this

Stay away from schwag it's a waste of time and is mostly used to make hash.

Looks

For quality weed you want to concentrate on thick skunky buds covered in orange hair and white crystals.

This picture is a good example of what to look for.

Smell

Good weed should be able to be smelled through the baggy and should fill the room with a skunk-like smell, a lot of people compare it to cat piss, my rule of thumb is; the sweeter the smell the better the taste, the stronger the smell the stronger the weed is. If the weed smells a little grassy it's been prematurely picked and won't smoke too well.

Feel

You should have light buds dry enough to crumble in a grinder but not too dry. Exposing cannabis to the air for too long will dry your bud out making the smoke harsh and the buds burn too quickly. When the bud is too wet/damp for whatever reason leave it on some paper/wood on the radiator so it gets dried out a little and the paper/wood absorbs excess juice.

How it smokes

When you take a clean blunt hit from the and you enjoy a thick, smooth, yellow, silky cloud in your mouth, the smoothness says it all. Good weed when inhaled should be as smooth as breathing and should just tickle your lungs a little.

High?!

How high are you? The more you smoke the more you'll notice the difference in types of weed, not just looks and tastes but different highs. I will leave it to you to decipher whether the weed is good or not once you have smoked it.

Can mango make you higher?

You may have heard that eating a ripe mango 45 minutes before you smoke will intensify your high and like me you may be very skeptical as to how this would work. So i looked into it. .

The science behind it is this; Mango contains something called terpene Myrcene. This is the most prevalent terpene that is also found in cannabis. Therefore eating Mango an hour or so before having a toke should in theory increase the intensity of the high since Myrcene helps the THC pass the blood-brain barrier quicker.

The mango must be ripe and must be eaten at least 45 minutes prior to smoking.

After trying this it worked for 4 out of 5 of us, but the one who it failed for smokes way too much to tell the difference anyway.
The high lasted longer than usual and was very pleasant. This is definitely worth trying.
Enjoy . . .

Alternative nicknames for Marijuana

Everyday new nicknames are invented for marijuana, even i or you could come up with some very easily.

Let's start by sifting through the main ones:

-Weed
-Pot
-Ganja
-Cheebah
-Bud
-Budda
-Grass
-Herb
-'Erb
-Mary Jane
-Green
-Dank
-Kush
-Chronic
-Draw
-Smoke
-Puff
-Gear

I may have missed a few, thats not important because you can eventually work out when someone's talking about it they'll use a descriptive word like that above or one that will put a smile on your face. They are mainly used to keep the conversation private hoping any eaves droppers cannot comprehend what they are talking about.

These are nicknames and they are endless, so feel free to add your own as a comment:

-Chonga
-Sticky Cabbage
-Stinker
-Snerble
-Roller
-Stinky Poo
-Fire
-Choke
-Bunga
-Hippie Lettuce
-Weewaw
-The Nug
-The thug

Then there are nicknames descriptive of the type of ganj:

-Blues (blueberry)
-Purple (purple haze)
-Chron Chron (chronic)

These are off the top of my head but it just shows how easily one can manufacture a new name for weed.

Then my favourite are descriptive words for being high/mashed.

The trick is put 'ed' on the end of a word:

e.g I'm Mash'ED' ,I'm Tabl'ED' ,I'm radiator'ED' :) etc . . .

Feel free to add your own personal nicknames in the comment space