[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Alright! One less hippie in the world!
Kidding of course. 
Congrats on kicking it.
Good health to you, Elano![/quote]
Thanks Iron Dwarf
Thanks to everyone else who supports me.
Day 2 and I don’t miss it yet. In fact I feel better than ever!
[quote]chillain wrote:
SSC wrote:
I actually disagree quite strongly. I’ve been around the game long enough to know that ANYONE can give any name to any strain of weed and people will just eat that shit up.
Back when I was slinging a little bit I’d take weed, call it Purple Nurple, and jack the price up 10 dollars. If I get weed from some random guy, and he calls it Super Skunk-17, how am I to know the difference between that and Mango Kush? They’re both indicas.
Naming weed is fucking dumb, and it’s more just to manipulate the masses.
Well if your experience is mostly flipping eighthers and quarters to local kids in Michigan, I don’t blame you for thinking that naming weed is stupid.
Get back to us after visiting Amsterdam or Vancouver or the medical marijuana dispensaries out here, and you’ll realize names are important when selecting from five strains of buds that produce different highs and all look unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
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I’m actually growing some Critical Mass that’s from Amsterdam right now, so… your hater undertones are harshing my mellow, brah.
When did fellow pot heads start hating on each other so much? The game got flipped somewhere, somehow.
I would suggest that the flushing and curing of the weed has alot of influence on how good any given crop will be regardless of strain, anyone can buy seeds and grow weed but not just anyone can grow really good weed imo.
[quote]SSC wrote:
chillain wrote:
SSC wrote:
I actually disagree quite strongly. I’ve been around the game long enough to know that ANYONE can give any name to any strain of weed and people will just eat that shit up.
Back when I was slinging a little bit I’d take weed, call it Purple Nurple, and jack the price up 10 dollars. If I get weed from some random guy, and he calls it Super Skunk-17, how am I to know the difference between that and Mango Kush? They’re both indicas.
Naming weed is fucking dumb, and it’s more just to manipulate the masses.
Well if your experience is mostly flipping eighthers and quarters to local kids in Michigan, I don’t blame you for thinking that naming weed is stupid.
Get back to us after visiting Amsterdam or Vancouver or the medical marijuana dispensaries out here, and you’ll realize names are important when selecting from five strains of buds that produce different highs and all look unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
I’m actually growing some Critical Mass that’s from Amsterdam right now, so… your hater undertones are harshing my mellow, brah.
When did fellow pot heads start hating on each other so much? The game got flipped somewhere, somehow.[/quote]
Nah brah, no hating. Its just when you said that all the names people call their weed is BS. Yeah that has some truth when people call it stuff like “nug, dro, beasters, headies, kush, etc. etc.” But on one hand it may be a name given to a weed with specific characteristics. Purp has an obvious color and smell that you cant just name on a sack of mid or beast.
Just saying the names people give to their bud is not complete bullshit, it just depends on the legitness of your connect. If some guy rob in the alley tells you hes got that “train wreck”, it might just be a way for him to get an extra 10 bucks.
On the other hand if you are going to a weed store in calli to get some “g13 sour diesel”, it just may be the real thing. If some punk sold you some “kb” and it turned out to be some swag, you just got gypped.
[quote]Psicks wrote:
I would suggest that the flushing and curing of the weed has alot of influence on how good any given crop will be regardless of strain, anyone can buy seeds and grow weed but not just anyone can grow really good weed imo.[/quote]
What is flushing?
[quote]SSC wrote:
When did fellow pot heads start hating on each other so much? The game got flipped somewhere, somehow.[/quote]
i agree brah! cant we just get high and get along lol
[quote]cleansnatch wrote:
Good job bro. You will feel great after getting those lungs back in shape. When I gave up weed it took about a month to notice my energy level back up. I believe this was directly related to an increase in lung capacity.
As far as ingesting THC besides smoking, I prefer to powder up some bud in a spice grinder and making a tea with it and drinking it. A half teaspoon of ground bud to a cup of boiling water will do you fine. It takes a while for it to enter your system but it lasts a lot longer.[/quote]
wait wait wait
I thought you needed to make it into a butter for it to have an effect when ingested orally. Making butter is way too much hassle, but I’d like to make some tea…
Can you elaborate on this? Do you just throw a half teaspoon (not tablespoon?) of ground bud into boiling water and drink it?
i had to quit for 2 years cause the cops raided my house with the swat team with all thier shot guns and dogs for havin 48 plants in my garage. i would take quittin cold turkey anyday lol
[quote]decapsk8 wrote:
SSC wrote:
When did fellow pot heads start hating on each other so much? The game got flipped somewhere, somehow.
i agree brah! cant we just get high and get along lol
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haha, can’t we all just hit a bong?
And that suck you gut busted for manufacture. Did they get a tip off or something? It usually somebody you told who told somebody else. When you got that much shit the risk of being robbed or busted is pretty damn high.
well it was just the people livin in the house (3 of us) and my sister lol. so i dont know what happened. just too wholsome of a place to grow i think. but no cultivation charge only possetion.
I’m a complete newb at weed and stuff (even though I live in the only country where it’s legal… I know, it’s a damn shame) but I thought smoking it through a bong completely eliminated that whole tar-bad-for-your-lungs stuff?
Or am I completely wrong?
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
I’m a complete newb at weed and stuff (even though I live in the only country where it’s legal… I know, it’s a damn shame) but I thought smoking it through a bong completely eliminated that whole tar-bad-for-your-lungs stuff?
Or am I completely wrong? [/quote]
Well, there’s no concrete answer. While most will agree that smoke is something that’s better avoided, there’s a lot of speculation about the carcinogens in marijuana smoke, and if they’re actually cancer-causing agents in the lungs. No proof of this has ever been documented, but emphysema is definitely a known cause of marijuana smoke.
A bong, though, is just the same as smoke - except it cools the smoke going into your lungs prior. Although there are certainly some top-tier bongs available for the cleanest smoke possible - Hurricanes, Roors, Shiva glass, it is still smoke that’s being put into your lungs.
This is why vaporization is a large trend growing in the smoking community - it basically heats the marijuana to a temperature that burns the bud, but only puts the concentrated THC into your system, with as little smoke as possible (unless you’re not a bitch smoker, haha.)
[quote]SSC wrote:
This is why vaporization is a large trend growing in the smoking community - it basically heats the marijuana to a temperature that burns the bud, but only puts the concentrated THC into your system, with as little smoke as possible (unless you’re not a bitch smoker, haha.)[/quote]
How exactly does this vaporizing work? My uncle has something called a Hukkah or Hookah or something from Egypt, and when we smoke he puts a piece of glowing coal in tin foil, pokes holes in it and puts in on top of the cone where the weed is, and then we just inhale…
But I don’t think that that’s vaporizing, is it?
(sorry if I’m hijacking here)
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
SSC wrote:
This is why vaporization is a large trend growing in the smoking community - it basically heats the marijuana to a temperature that burns the bud, but only puts the concentrated THC into your system, with as little smoke as possible (unless you’re not a bitch smoker, haha.)
How exactly does this vaporizing work? My uncle has something called a Hukkah or Hookah or something from Egypt, and when we smoke he puts a piece of glowing coal in tin foil, pokes holes in it and puts in on top of the cone where the weed is, and then we just inhale…
But I don’t think that that’s vaporizing, is it?
(sorry if I’m hijacking here)
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Hey, the thread wasn’t going anywhere else so it’s not much of a hijack. Hookah is different, because it’s still a smoke-producing method. While I’m not one to comment on the exact physiological reprocussions of hookah, I do know it’s a bit less damaging than cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, but this is also heavily dependant on the type of tobacco you’re using.
As for vaporizers - take a look at the attached picture. This is a Volcano vaporizer - a vaporizer that’s typically considered one of the finer and more luxurious types of vapes. Here’s a link with pictures on how it’s set up; http://www.thevolcanovaporizer.com/how-works.php
Basically, the vaporizer is set to a predetermined temperature. This temperature doesn’t burn the THC, but rather converts it into a fine “warm air” that you breathe in. Again, it’s not smoke at all - because it’s just the THC being burned. After you’re done with your bowl, you can see (and especially smell) the left-over bud. If you’re po’ as fuck, like me, you won’t mind smoking the used herb for some valuable THC. Most people won’t, though, because it tastes and smells like shit when you’re done with it.
The experience of inhaling the vaporizer is quite different, too. With most vapes, the drag is actually drawn out as long and slowly as you can muster, pretty much the exact opposite of smoking weed. The sensation is simply a warm, somewhat numbing sensation on your tongue. Then, when you breathe out, you may see a tiny whisp of silver come out of your mouth, but not much more. The sweetest thing is is that you can taste your herb MUCH better this way, because you don’t have the taste of smoke combined.
Although I honestly will smoke whatever’s handed to me, though - as long as it’s weed. If I do have a preference, I’ll vape everytime!
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
SSC wrote:
This is why vaporization is a large trend growing in the smoking community - it basically heats the marijuana to a temperature that burns the bud, but only puts the concentrated THC into your system, with as little smoke as possible (unless you’re not a bitch smoker, haha.)
How exactly does this vaporizing work? My uncle has something called a Hukkah or Hookah or something from Egypt, and when we smoke he puts a piece of glowing coal in tin foil, pokes holes in it and puts in on top of the cone where the weed is, and then we just inhale…
But I don’t think that that’s vaporizing, is it?
(sorry if I’m hijacking here)
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It’s not the same. A vap will burn the thc at temp that is lower than the temp needed to burn the plant material.
I used to smoke lots of blunts and they have no filter. Very bad for the lungs.
I’ve just quit 3 months ago. I ate hash every day for the past 12 years. I went to Amsterdam, the European weed mecca, and it took 3 cakes and a shitload of alcohol to even remotely feel a buzz. I’m like Obelix and the magic potion- I’m practically immune to the shit.
Giving up eating it wasn’t a problem, although there’s some regret coz it’s such fun, but giving up smoking was tough. I had several attempts whereby I’d say: “I’ll give up when this pack of cigs runs out” only to buy another pack on the way home from work. Time to grow the fuck up, though. I don’t want to be middle-aged and still smoking. When I’m a pensioner, riddled with arthritis, I’ll do it again with impunity.
Good job on quitting to the OP. Ain’t easy.
THC shrinks tumors. I’m counting on that and the fact that I don’t smoke anywhere NEAR to everyday to prevent me from gettin’ cancer.
However, I will say there has yet to be ONE instance of a pure-weed smoker getting lung cancer. It just doesn’t happen.
Other lung diseases are different, but even then, you smoke a LOT more cigs than you do weed.
THC shrinks tumors? I’ve never heard that. Supposedly, the THC will kill dying cells, which are the ones most likely to become cancerous.
Weed doesn’t do anything bad to you (long-term). The effects last only for the period of intoxication.