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Do Americans smoke bud weird or is it just the media portraying it this way?

I seem to be so much more relaxed when I smoke by myself compared to in groups as I've been getting older, idk whether my tolerance for fuckwits has just drastically declined but I like being able to do whatever I want (pay attention to things, not pay attention to things, daydream etc.) just a whole lot more calmer as well.

Less noise too, omg the noise..

I find that its much more relaxing smoking up alone and doing whatever I want to do... I absolutely love listening to EDM/Trace/DNB when stoned any other music literally does my head in and kills my high which a lot of people do and i Hate it, it really enhances the electronic type music for me so can't agree with you on the noise thing though haha
 
I love music too haha I'm working on the sickest mixtape to release on my birthday, cannnnnnnot wait =D

I mean stupid noise as in people spilling shit or forgetting whose cone it is.
 
I love music too haha I'm working on the sickest mixtape to release on my birthday, cannnnnnnot wait =D

I mean stupid noise as in people spilling shit or forgetting whose cone it is.

Or people being straight out retards or talking when your trying to seep into a song, fucking buzzkill haha
 
I find it always happens just as your getting into the drop of some trance... its all bliss till that retard starts talking about some gibberish and because your so high you can feel your head pulse from the anger infused adrenaline because they wrecked your moment hahaha
 
In my neck of America (just for anthropological info):

"Smoking weed" refers to cannabis alone, although plenty do mix weed with tobacco. If anyone was planning to mix weed with tobacco, though, it would be mentioned to everyone participating, and would not just be assumed. "Smoking a bowl" implies a pipe OR a bong, and implies only weed. "Smoking a joint" refers to a rolled cigarette but with weed only, no tobacco. "Rolling a spliff" refers to a joint with some amount of tobacco mixed in...this can also be in a verbal form, e.g. "spliffing it" or "spliffing it out" means mixing in tobacco. For most bong users, "smoking a bowl" (if proposed to another smoker) refers to the sharing of a bowl, passing it back and forth. Yes, the smoke has a different taste after the first hit, but much of the effect of hitting pre-burned weed can be diminished by "cornering" the bowl (many bowls have a large enough surface area that a smoker can draw through just one part of the bowl, charring one fraction but leaving the rest green). On a large enough bowl, with judicious cornering, it should be possible to allow four or five smokers to each get a green hit. In any case, the procedure for taking a hit among the people I smoke with would be to fill the bong, pull the slider and clear the bong in one continuous breath. In our etiquette, one lungful is considered a hit, and if you can fill and empty the bong more than once on a single inhalation you are welcome to do so. Of course people have smaller bubblers and also smaller bongs (I have seen smaller bongs with a carb rather than a removable slider and with a bowl size much closer to what I imagine a "cone" to be--in those cases it may be legit to cache the bowl in one hit--do aussies and europeans use the word "cache" for finishing off a bowl?). I have also experienced doing "snappers" (partially-packed bong bowls to be consumed in a single fresh hit), but it is more laborious and time-consuming than just passing a bowl back and forth and so among my friends it is rarer.
 
I've certainly seen people smoke bongs as the OP described, but not every time they take a hit - I do think that in the media, it's being done to drive home the fact that the people in question are smoking weed.

Generally IRL, it happens when the smoker is lighting the bud, but either it doesn't light well until their lungs are mostly full of mostly-smokeless air, meaning they couldn't take the whole hit, or if they did, they'd barely be able to fit it in their lungs, leaving smoke in their mouth and throat, which tends to cause coughing - OR - if they realize after filling the chamber with thick smoke, that they won't be able to inhale it all without coughing. So they'll exhale, take the bowl/slide out (i've heard both those words, but never "cone") or take their finger off the carb, and then inhale the contents of the chamber, with their full lung capacity available, and don't cough.

That technique is also frequently used when teaching newbies to smoke (at least in some circles). Sometimes the newbie who can't work a bong yet will get the bong filled for them by a friend, who quickly passes it to them to inhale.
 
Theres nothing abnormal about a guy packing a snapper , (a small , depending on the person,) in a big bong, milking that bit of sweet ganja, then getting A SECOND BREATH LETOUT , and sucking it all up ...


, then cough ,

if necessary repeat.

Not that special. Some people do it other ways. This is an experienced way though
 
America=quantity, not necessarily quality

lol, what? The West Coast has some of the best quality growers in the world, they've been working on the genetics of medical/recreational strains since the 70s. A lot of the merch weed probably originates from Canada and Mexico and is just sold up here.




Still doesn't change much though, no matter how good the weed is I still need a FAT bong hit or two to get me lifted. Even if I blaze up a gram blunt I'm usually going for a fat ass bong rip afterwards just to really get me there. That second breath just makes it incredibly easier to take a fat hit out of a bong, especially when you've got small lungs like I do.
 
I just smoke snaps, if you cant smoke it all in one pull IMO then you shouldnt be packing that much or you just shouldn't be using a bong. the whole point of a bong is to get a massive hit of fresh tasting smoke, not to hit a mediocre bowl of shitty tasting leftover bud .
 
My bowls are not mediocre or shitty tasting lol... but they do give massive hits, and I still kill it in "one" hit considering the first one does nothing but suck up air.



With a small, straight-shot half foot bong there is no need.. but when you use a one foot, double-perced beaker style with an ash-catcher, half the hit goes to filling the chamber with smoke. Instead of getting that useless oxygen in my lungs before the smoke, I exhale it in a one second breath - clear it in 3-4 seconds and then inhale oxygen after the hit to push the smoke deeper into my lungs.


You call it "weird".. I call it "efficiency" :p
 
America=quantity, not necessarily quality

lol, what? The West Coast has some of the best quality growers in the world, they've been working on the genetics of medical/recreational strains since the 70s. A lot of the merch weed probably originates from Canada and Mexico and is just sold up here.




Still doesn't change much though, no matter how good the weed is I still need a FAT bong hit or two to get me lifted. Even if I blaze up a gram blunt I'm usually going for a fat ass bong rip afterwards just to really get me there. That second breath just makes it incredibly easier to take a fat hit out of a bong, especially when you've got small lungs like I do.

Ha, I can see how you may have taken that considering the OP and the overall thread...

I was talking about American culture in general though...It's just one big giant, meaningless, vain, natural resource wasting free for all....

Overall, we have some amazing cannabis, that's the least of our worries!
 
With a small, straight-shot half foot bong there is no need.. but when you use a one foot, double-perced beaker style with an ash-catcher, half the hit goes to filling the chamber with smoke. Instead of getting that useless oxygen in my lungs before the smoke, I exhale it in a one second breath - clear it in 3-4 seconds and then inhale oxygen after the hit to push the smoke deeper into my lungs.


You call it "weird".. I call it "efficiency" :p

Agreed!
 
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