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MasterSplinter

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"Ill take a good bean if its Green n mean."
I have asthma and have always been able to conrtol it pretty good you know? Never had a real problem and been smokin good budz for many years.

But lately I have been coughin up the queens royal jelly. Its nasty and everytime I exercise this shit comes up. Shud I quit and get a vape instead? Its hard to envision a world where I am only Vapin and eatin eds from da club..::\
 
yep - get a vape.

my lungs are fucked after 25 years of bongs. good thing is it seems to clear up after a few weeks away from it.

funny thing is I think pot is both a cause and a cure of my asthma - its all in the dosage
 
I think its a good thing - your body is generating mucus to try and rid itself of the shit you leave in your lungs every time you smoke.
 
IME, most cannabis users (even experienced) approach lighting their weed the wrong way. Thy simply torch is to a cinder. This extreme temperature creates comustion toxins like CO and CO2, which are bad for the lungs and brain.

If you smoke a bowl/bong, when you light the herb, there should be like a half inch between the lighter flame and the herb, this way you (sort of) vaporize the active chemicals and reduce toxins.
 
Inhaling any combustible material has negative side effects.

Vapourizing is definitely the way to go. I have astshma as well, but i still smoke. I have a very physically demanding job that keeps my lungs somewhat healthy for now. When i jog i cough shit up, but id rather cough it up than keep it, lol.

Its just hard to vape on the go.
 
arthunter888 said:
IME, most cannabis users (even experienced) approach lighting their weed the wrong way. Thy simply torch is to a cinder. This extreme temperature creates comustion toxins like CO and CO2, which are bad for the lungs and brain.

If you smoke a bowl/bong, when you light the herb, there should be like a half inch between the lighter flame and the herb, this way you (sort of) vaporize the active chemicals and reduce toxins.
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Dude - a burnt cone is a burnt cone anyway you look at it. Sure you might be able to sort of vaporize the active chemicals before it all goes up in smoke with your method, but when it burns, you're going to get those toxins and particulate matter regardless.

Vaporizing without flame is the only method worth pursuing.
 
coughing up black/brown speckly shit in thick mucus? me too...especially after a good run. do u smoke cigarettes too? that'll certainly make it worse. i have noticed that a bong (water filtered) lessens the "royal jelly." shit sucks any way u look at it and i have nowhere to put a vape.

don't stop smoking tho, just take a little time off to clean up yer lungs.
 
expothead said:
Dude - a burnt cone is a burnt cone anyway you look at it. Sure you might be able to sort of vaporize the active chemicals before it all goes up in smoke with your method, but when it burns, you're going to get those toxins and particulate matter regardless.

Vaporizing without flame is the only method worth pursuing.
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i think both of ya'll are kinda right. you'll get more out of your weed if you burn it the way he said (hold the lighter half an inch away and be patient) . . but in terms of health improvements, the vaporizer wins hands down.
 
Get a Volcano. I stopped smoking for good. I got back into really good shape and only vape and eat edibles. I notice the volcano on my lungs if I hit it a lot so I can't even imagine smoking ever again I think I would di.e
 
If I've been hitting the bongs heavily for a while i'll sometimes cough up a phlegm mixed with little bits of black shit. Pretty gross, Its more likely to fuck with your lungs if your mixing it with tobacco.
 
expothead said:
Dude - a burnt cone is a burnt cone anyway you look at it. Sure you might be able to sort of vaporize the active chemicals before it all goes up in smoke with your method, but when it burns, you're going to get those toxins and particulate matter regardless.

Vaporizing without flame is the only method worth pursuing.
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Sure, vaporizing without a flame is the best way to go, but most people don't have the money for a volcano, and/or don't have access to cheaper vaporizers either.

I would assume that most people fall into that ^^category, so the most REALISTIC advice would be to minimize the contact between the flame and the weed. I know it's nowhere near vaporizing, but it will definitely produce fewer combustion products than torching the stuff.
 
^ Thats like saying if you light your joint from a distance its healthier. Once its burning it burning - end of story.

I can understand that people might feel that a vaporizer is a waste of money - but what price do you put on your health? My Vapolution was $129 (now $150) - considering I expect it to last 2 years or more and I use it everyday thats 20c per day. Seems like a small price to pay to avoid the health consequences of smoking. I only wish it i'd started using one 10 (or even 5) years ago (*coughs up more shit*).

And I agree the Volcano is really expensive, and not convenient in any way.
 
i just bought a vape, 160, im already in love, twice as high as usual and no cough, little weed used, i dont know man it hard to explain how wonderful a good vape is, and you dont need a volcano, check out da buddha
 
One of my buddies had the same problem a while ago. He'd been smoking for a fair while, absolutely fine then suddenly he has one puff on a ciggy and spews it all up. This went on for a week or two and then he was back to normal. But I think it would have stopped faster for him had he just not smoked for two or three days.
 
I have asthma too, but not bad or anything, I don't use an inhaler and never had any problems with it, but smoking weed is said to help asthma, it does the exact opposite cigarette smoke does. It opens up the airways in your lungs, I never really noticed my throat hurting or coughing up phlemg from weed. However I've been smoking cigs for a while now, and I never really used to alot, now I'm coughing up nasty shit all the time, really makes me wanna quit the cigs.
 
Yeah totally get one, after a while of smoking out of joints and pipes I switched to a bong and my lungs have been feeling better.
 
Actually its because the bong retain a certain amount of ''material'' and lower the temp of the smoke, but you need more weed to get high... vaps is the only solution... except if you can bare the morning black spit every f***ing day. Otherwise there is the bubbler, a ''hybrid'' of a pirex (glass pipe) and a bong. If the gov legalize pot, we would be popin' pill rather than coughing our lungs out!!!
 
i have asthma too (seems like alot of people do haha) and im supposed use and inhaler and shit everyday, cigs: turn my lungs to shit, weed: never too bad, but i get sick more often when i used to smoke (i have to quit for a few months) just cause your putting shit in the way of you body keeping you healthy.

basically, quit until you dont' have a cold (i suggest going all out and taking like 13,000 mg of vitamin c and like 10 big-ass bottles of water, throughout a day to get rid of it, always works for me haha) and then start smoking again. and coughing mad shit up excercising it good, as expothead said your just cleaning your lungs out, gross as that shit is.

p.s. that vitamin c and water should be spread out through out the ENTIRE day, i got Hyponatremia from drinking to much water in like 4 hours and i got all delirious and shit and puked etc. the whole nine yards, crazy shit. FYI
 
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