It seems like these days everyone online has fancy pipes, bongs, vaporizors, and all sorts of new fangled electronic gadgets for smoking, these new titanium nail contraptions with induction heating for 'budder' and so on and so forth.. I feel left out, like I am the only person in the world who enjoys smoking a nice joint. And it goes further than that, there is something to be said for the art of rolling a nice joint - I know some people don't care, but I do. Its a great reward to break up the weed by hand, rolling to perfection a joint that not only pulls perfectly but is as aesthetically pleasing as the bud itself..
Now, maybe its because I can't smoke indoors (landlords would not be pleased to say the least) that I haven't come to embrace the bong. It would be nice to smoke a little nug here or there rather than rolling a spliff and having to out it (or rolling a girly pinner), but I feel so much is taken away from the experience that way, and I've never really liked bongs. Too much smoke at once for me.. I enjoy smoothly drawing in my smoke and exhaling smoothly.. not inhale to my maximum capacity and then exhale like I'm dying for a breath of fresh air.. nah, not for me.
There seems to be the argument that bongs are a cleaner smoke, well, that I can agree to only if the bong and the bowl are perfectly clean and the water is fresh.. most peoples bongs arent, and even with clean water, they have a smell and I can very well taste it.. nevermind the bowl that has cakes of dark resin and so on. Does the thin paper from a zigzag or a nice rizla silver really make that much of a difference? I've never personally noticed it..
Pipes fall into the same category, and their smoke is usually too hot for me, which is strange because by the same logic a joint should be 'hot' as well, but its just not.
As far as vaporizors go, well, those are a whole other ballgame and to me take the joy out of smoking entirely out of the equation.. Id use one as a novelty kind of thing, but I dont smoke endlessly all day which means I cannot justify the cost, and I don't really need the benefit of the 'clean' smoke..
Perhaps its just where and how I grew up. We always smoked blunts or joints.. no one had bongs really.. was never a thing for us. In other areas bongs are the golden standard and rolling is looked down upon.. I can't understand people that cannot roll.. it just seems to integral to the marijuana experience to me.
Anyone else just like rolling a nice joint?