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K-Dazed

K-Dazed

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Hey, I'm trying to find some info on how bad poppers are for you. For those who don't know, the kind of popper I am refering to is when you buy a popper piece (straight tube w/ downstem, no bowl) and rip a bit of a cigarette off and push it down the tube. Once you do that, you pack weed on top and slowly hit the weed, and then once you get to the cigarette you pull really strong and "pop" it through.

So anyways, I was curious, how much worse is this for you than smoking weed with tobacco, and, who in CD does poppers?

EDIT, Link: http://wikibin.org/articles/marijuana-popper.html
 
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Like a one hitter with a dugout? I've never heard of it called a popper, but I smoke that way sometimes if i'm thinking of the same thing. They have some that look like cigarettes but it's a metal tube. I can't imagine it's too much worse for you than smoking normally. It's not my favorite way to smoke though, it doesn't taste great and it's kind of a pain in the ass to have to keep blowing the ash out (assuming you didn't get it all in your mouth, which happens a lot less than you'd think) and jabbing it in the box to fill it back up. I could be thinking of something entirely different though, i don't know about the popping through part?
 
sounds like a crack pipe for weed.....never heard of it either.

but as long as im already typing, anytime you add tobacco, the tar and carcinogens you inhale go up significantly, even if you dont burn any of the tobacco itself, because the hot smoke passing through will vap some of the chemicals off the tobacco....id only do this with organic tobacco, and even then its probably not a good idea.

course, this is coming from a half-pack a day smoker, so i guess im a bit of a hypocrit
 
We call them shotties, they're extremely popular in my part of the UK. I smoked them all day, everyday, for years, and still do quite often. I'm not sure how much worse for you it is than other methods, but smoking tobacco obviously isn't very good for you. They are also (ime) quite addictive, I used to really fiend after shotties, the intense hit of both the tobacco and weed smoke filling my lungs, and bongs or joints wouldn't really satisfy. They are pretty dirty tbh, the water gets real nasty real quick and they can taste pretty awful.

For those curious, it's a bong, but with a straight downpipe with no bowl or cone or w/e. I use a bullet, a short piece of detachable tube that sits inside the top of the downpipe. You plug the end of the bullet with baccy, then press it into a pile of ground bud/hash. You then insert the bullet into the pipe, and light, toking just enough to pull all the smoke into the chamber. Eventually, the baccy starts to burn, and as it does gets looser in the tube. When this happens, you draw as hard as you can, which causes the baccy plug to suddenly "pop" and pull out of the tube into the water, instantly clearing the chamber.
 
I find it tends to be a local thing, some places do it, other places don't. Whoever said it sounds like a crackpipe for weed, it kind of is - it's pretty much stoner crack. Around here there's a lot of people who smoke 15+ poppers a day.

The popper piece looks similar to a one-hitter, actually. It looks like a long one hitter (because of the down-stem).

Here is a link about what a popper is:

http://wikibin.org/articles/marijuana-popper.html

In Toronto everyone who smokes seems to be a popper fiend. Do any Americans know of people doing poppers?
 
nope, never heard of it....when i used to smoke, we'd pack one hit bowls in a bong and pull them through when we were done, but never with tobacco
 
I know I said this in another thread last month or last year... I don't keep track of time too well. I do not like anything about tobacco. I've tried it and I do not like it. I have never tasted a tobacco that I remotely liked even. If tobacco was mixed with weed, for me personally, that would render the weed useless trash. I get medical marijuana, and hopefully they will never put tobacco in the medical because if they did, I would stop using MJ altogether.
 
Yerg said:
Why on earth would they do that?
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Yeah that was a confusing statement.

As for the OP's question - this isn't going to be any worse than smoking a cig or some good ol' cannabis... so I mean - it's not the best thing in the world to light something on fire and inhale it (burning a carbon = carcinogenic), but I think you knew that already.

The "rush" like feeling from this is most likely due to the immediate lack of oxygen, replaced by nicotine and cannaboids/thc.
 
The "rush" like feeling from this is most likely due to the immediate lack of oxygen, replaced by nicotine and cannaboids/thc.
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I don't think oxygen deprivation has much to do with it tbh; think about it, I can very quickly expel all of the air from my lungs without getting any kind of rush. I'm pretty sure it's just the hit of doing a tobacco bong.
 
ugly said:
True. I don't really think they would. I am just surprised that anybody does that.
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"Spinning," or mixing tobacco with cannabis, is pretty popular everywhere but the US. Personally, I avoid mixing the two, my cigs come after my blunts.
 
^On a historical note, cannabis has always been smoked with tobacco, in much the same way as opium. It was a novel method of drug delivery first encountered by Europeans in the New World; they brought the practice back home, where people took it up, began mixing other drugs with it, and eventually began to omit the tobacco.
 
chainer3k said:
"Spinning," or mixing tobacco with cannabis, is pretty popular everywhere but the US. Personally, I avoid mixing the two, my cigs come after my blunts.
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You realise a 'blunt' (if you mean it in the usual sense of the word) contains tobacco, right?
 
mixing with tobacco is pretty popular around my friends....mainly because i roll the best joints and i always make it 1/5th tobacco to help my sticky ass buds become rollable.
 
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