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Has shatter ruined flowers for you?

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Hey everyone,

I've been reading about dabs and shatter over the last couple years, we don't have that where I am so the concept of it all is very intriguing.


Although I don't see myself ever smoking it (and I'm perfectly ok with that), I was just wondering if it has ruined normal bud for anyone? On a short term basis I could imagine that a fair bit would change. But I'm keen to hear the experiences of Bluelighters on this one. :)
 
I've never had shatter as what's available in the american medical shops... My old flatmates and I did make a bunch of BHO from the leftovers from our grow. Smoking that for a week definitely made my tolerance go way up. I'd imagine shatter is only worse, especially if smoked over a long period of time...
 
I like to think of it in this sense: if I drink hard alcohol every night for a week, I'm not going to enjoy beer as much after that. BUT if I drink beer every night for a week, and then drink some liquor, I'll be able to get properly drunk. And the same goes with flowers/concentrates.

I wouldn't exactly say they 'ruin' weed. They aren't as complex of a high as weed (it always feels like they're something missing, even though I'm stoned) and I can still get high off of a joint. But if you've been smoking oil for a few days, 3 hits of weed won't get you mildly buzzin' like it should.

I think the best thing to do is to not become a 'dab snob'. I have friends who only smoke oil, and they can't enjoy weed anymore because they smoke a gram of oil a day.
I love concentrates, but they skyrocket your tolerance, so I try to save them for a once-in-a-while thing.
 
I know people who don't puff flowers anymore. Really sad IMO. I find flowers to be special for so many reasons. For one I love the look of a well grown plant. The unique smells each strain has. Breaking up the weed to smoke and then of course smoking it. Enjoying the flavor and the bonus that comes with it...getting stoned.

Plus I don't like the idea of Butane or CO2 in my weed. Defeats the purpose of smoking something natural.

And lastly I already have a good enough tolerance as is.

I do plan to get some oil though to try once so I can check it off the bucket list, but otherwise I'd much rather some sexy flowers to stare out. Nothing really sexy about shatter/wax, etc.

If I want concentrates I'll puff bubblehash.
 
i prefer smoking flowers and getting the true high/essence of whatever strain i'm smoking. but i must admit i love the powerful flavor of concentrates and the fact that i can put some in a pen or whatever and carry it around with me practically anywhere.
 
When I used to vape wax daily that shit definitely ruined buds, almost as bad as when I started smoking weed again after years of synth blends. Nowadays I just pass on the extracts, I get enough from herb and the high feels way more complete.
 
ruined my lungs more than anything. i like smoking weed way better. much better flavor and more enjoyable. people that are not getting high enough are smoking too often. they should try quitting once in a while because it's much more powerful and safer for your health to keep a low tolerance. on the other hand though, wax, shatter, whatever you call it is great for edibles. thats all i use it for now.
 
No, i prefer the ritual of breaking up my weed and packing it into glass, and smoking it.
Dabs/shatter is a different process that i am not comfortable with.
Plus im a lot less likely to accidentally start a fire with a lighter than a torch.
 
Yes, I definitely had flower ruined for me for a while. When I first came out to Arizona and got my medical card, I thought I was in heaven. I found a connect who sold ounces of hash for 125 bucks, which was cheaper than he sold his flower for. I eventually got to the point where I was going through an ounce of the stuff every 2-3 days. I would wake up in the morning and smoke about a gram of shatter, I wouldn't even really get high, it just brought me back to baseline. I did this for about 3 weeks straight, never once smoking flower. At the end of the 3 weeks, I decided I was sick of the hash, as it was too stimulating, and tried to go back to flower. I didn't feel anything from huge bong rips of the best weed available, and it honestly didn't even take away my withdrawal symptoms from hash. Smoking an ounce of hash every 2 days, actually produced noticable withdrawal when I quit.

I don't smoke a lot these days, but occasionally I go on binges. I much prefer hash in the morning, as I find it very stimulating, and flower at night to go to bed.
 
NO WAY!
I think its the matter of when people first try a dab and get that BHO high they smoke flower and expect that same high. Flower will never get you as high as a dab will. Im a daily dabber and a daily flower smoker and I still get high from 1 joint of flower even after a good day of hitting nails.
 
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