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i think the most useful tool i have is a piece of folded A4 paper

not just for weed but for all drugs, it's the best way to transfer drugs into baggies and such. only if the weed is ground up though.
 
ugly said:
Captain Heroin, let's burn one. My schedule is fairly open and it would be an honor to medicate with a BLcrewmember. Buy yourself a volcano and I'll bring meds.

I did not understand the picture of the *earwax concentrate* ??

I need to clean one of my favorite palm size pipes because it is stopped up with resin and is no longer smokable. I would like to clean my bong because I don't like the way it smells and I don't like the way it looks. The glass itself is nicely decorated but right now I can't see most of it because of the sticky icky lining the lower half of the bong.

I had some I.E. tonight. (Probably stands for Inland Empire, don't you think, Captain?) It has a really strong high without such bad munchies. I bought four different kinds but now I sort of wish I had got all I.E.
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I love answering your posts Ugly! I love sharing wisdom with old people. Just the other day I was at my all time favorite place on earth (the best dispensary in LA IMO) and I was telling my 40 year old bud tender things he hadn't heard of until I mentioned it to him. %) And these are things that I had a suspicion about myself however they were confirmed as I've met very intelligent even younger than I am people out here who know their shit about everything related to cannabinoids/extracts/etc.

As for the earwax.... it is hash oil that has been whipped. This is an ideal form for your oil to be in, for skillet dabs.

If you've never seen a skillet dab (a vaporizer, although it is a different mechanism than the volcano of course), I can show you via a youtube video of people taking skillet dabs. I could also take a dab while we're medicating. %) :D

Unless the piece is especially fun for you for whatever reason, or if it's expensive/very well crafted, I'd go out and buy a new one! You can let the old one sit in isopropanol, and that'll help loosen up a lot of resin.

When pieces clogged for me my 1st year smoking, I'd simply take a paper clip to them, to clear the pathway the smoke will take. However, this is extremely messy, gets resin everywhere, and you don't want to do this if you don't have to. Solvents like isopropanol are ideal here. :)

Merely sitting it in hot water for a long time might help too - however if the mouthpiece is pretty small, etc - you may just have to take a paper clip to it. The chunks of resin will be pretty big. When I had a very large bowl that I no longer own, I had to pull out the chunks of resin, shake them out, and i'd still have to wedge it out of the mouthpiece.

IE is likely to stand for Inland Empire you are correct. %) However while it could stand for something else, nothing else would come to mind.

So the munchies are a bit of a side effect for you? I desperately need to eat more than I can stomach half the time so I'm constantly loving high-intensity munchies from weed. Despite this, I am still rather thin and very low BF%.

The bong - I'm assuming you have a glass on glass bong (no rubber stoppers at joint for downstem) - take out the downstem/bowlpiece combo carefully, and set aside; you'll clean them separately. For the main bong, you'll want to pass water through it, then shake out the water, if any crap starts coming out with just water, see how well just water works; i'll do this with one of the bongs I have that doesn't get cleaned out frequently (I'd call it a "guest bong" - I got it for free :D) - then you want to let the bong dry out. Get your rock salt/kosher salt, put in a little you don't need a handful. I say this because excess salt can sometimes, depending on what bong you own be hard to remove at the end when it's clear again. With the rock salt in there, you will then need to pour in isopropanol. Some people may add in a little hot water; I would just use the isopropanol and salt.

For your own bong's protection... MAKE SURE AT THIS POINT YOUR DOWNSTEM IS NOT STILL IN YOUR BONG!!!! You can easily forget this step if you're already baked, which is likely the case even for myself ;)

Then shake the salt/isopropanol around the areas that need cleaning. You'll see it start to work well, then very well, then when you still see a lighter brown layer, pour out the nasty iso (has already absorbed tons of tars, etc) - the salt will likely still be there. Pour more isopropanol in; more salt if there's none left in the bong; repeat.

Repeat until clean....and it'll likely work very well!

BTW Ugly - you inspired me to go pick up some Hindu Kush and I'm surprised how unique the smell/taste/flavor/high of the weed is!!! Very impressive, very crystal-loaded buds. :D
 
Hey Captain,
I'm all kinds of educated now! I had to save all your text from this post so I can refer back to it. Today I bought Louis VIII and a gram of hash. I haven't smoked at all today but I'm anxious to try out my new meds tonight. :-)
 
ugly said:
Hey Captain,
I'm all kinds of educated now! I had to save all your text from this post so I can refer back to it. Today I bought Louis VIII and a gram of hash. I haven't smoked at all today but I'm anxious to try out my new meds tonight. :-)
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:D

You must have a good eye for buds!!!

The only King Louie's I have had are 13th and 14th (XIII - this batch was a hybrid , XIV - this batch was a FULL sativa!) - the 14th was by far my favorite, and I still have some. :D I took some pictures of this strain and I hope they came out well; if they did I might have submitted them for Pot or Not. %)
 
CANNABIS EXTRACTS - Very Important!

There are some IMPORTANT things you need to look for when buying cannabinoid extracts. I'm going to show you many good extracts that I happen to have on hand; although I will also list others I do not have on hand.

This isn't an extensive list by far, and isn't going to include all pseudonyms for each grade of whatever. Let's get started.

With my lovely Mendo Mulcher (re: post #1)... I grind up weed finely. Then after grinding it up, and maneuvering piles of ground dank/hetties over the screen, I've accumulated kief. It can also be spelled keif. Or keef. A lot of alternative spellings for words that most people are going to spell phonetically. The "i before e" rule is why I normally go for kief.

KIEF - consistency - depends on quality but as it is mostly plant matter and cannabinoids, and for sure the cannabinoids are sticky, kief will stick to your fingers; best not to touch it if you have it in a jar or a container or a grinder! When I have grounded up weed, I'll pinch large amounts of it, and move it in circles around the screen to get most of the kief caught before my fingers start packing individual bowls. This way I can be as liberal as I want to about packing a bowl, making sure it's well packed, even, what have you (I will often layer weed/kief/weed in bowls; this is best if you can inhale the whole hit in one go - because you'll not actually expose the keif to the lighter's flame this way, so as to not destroy the cannabinoids). On this side note; fuck putting a flame to the weed/kief or weed/kief/weed or what/have/you... buy a glass dabber (this one doesn't have to come to a point but can be a little thicker at the end, just like the handle part, I'll include a picture) and a blowtorch with handle attachment combo all in one go at the hardware store... and torch the dabbing end, and put that to the bowl after you've safely established the flame won't burn the house down or you can put it out before you go at it. :) This way you aren't directly burning the product. It will still likely cherry on its own but it's better for you IMO. I won't sit here and argue that as it's still FINE to use regular lighters as I still do smoke weed with regular lighters every day :D - but just wanted to point that out too under the kief section, realizing some of y'all - like me in Virginia for 5 years - are really only going to prefer kief. The only hash I came by in Virginia was disgusting. Tons of terpenoids, no "high" behind it on its own, with weed in a bowl it was disappointing IMO. Several diff. batches over time, even different people making it too. =D I laugh about that now... but hash isn't like a popular thing world-wide, and I can't say I smoke hash every day. The only extract I'd say I would prefer to use daily (and I may not want to use this one daily for life LOL) - is wax. :D the rest is more like a once in a blue moon sort of thing. I have even tried different grades of oil like just regular dehydrated oil of a very high quality at the hash bar, very great high but it was way so intense for me, I prefer smaller dosages of wax at home. I can't find this high grade dehydrated oil in most dispensaries so I gave up looking for a decent source for it for now. :) I'm OK without that at home too. I think this grade is called "candy" by the way; I'll fill you all in on this later after I get done with BHO/wax.

There are different GRADES of kief; depending on the quality of the bud of course, etc. - the important thing is to look at the color - but if you know what kind of weed it came from (I've bought two grams of keif from my dispensary, I'll show you all 1 of them) - in that case I knew the strain I was getting came from Purple Kush. It's very potent kief. It was a very affordable acquisition. =D

I also have my own home-made kief I'm saving. :D I'll show you all this too of course.

HASH (Cold water extracted hash) - consistency - somewhat sticky, somewhat not, can be very hard - to kind of like playdoh-ish.

If it's solid-rock-hard, this is stuff i hate and don't want to use. However I can't say it's a complete indicator of quality at all...as it's probably a result of a great deal of pressure to compress it into bricked form. I've seen a 6 ton press for sale ... 8o.... on the internet of course but yeah. If I ever need a 6 TON press I guess I know where to go?! ROFL.

A lot of the CWE extracted hash I have had from California medical dispensaries, is pretty much shit. However, I recently came into two grades of CWE hash - decent and WOW quality - so I'll show you both here. I would only really use the "wow" quality myself but I have both to show you as the other one was a really good deal and I can use it in making home-made edibles. :D In this case, looking at the color alone can tell you a lot. Knowing what strain it came from, indica/sativa, is kind of a side note based on the quality, as shitty CWE hash is, merely just that. Weed or just kief in general is by far superior IMO.

HASH OIL (ERRRRL) - consistency: very sticky

You're going to want to be careful handling this stuff. Once you're high, put it away, roll a joint instead man. Pack a bong. Do something with weed, it's easier to clean up than oil!!!!!! Maybe pull out wax instead ;) ;)

There are two different kinds of hash oil I know of and will list for you all off the top of my head. It depends on the type of solvent you use. Butane (BHO), or isopropanol. I have some Hubby's bars made with ISO oil (500mg per bar, each bar scored into 6 sections) and I have a vial of BHO as well which - to be honest I can't tell how good it is; I bought it to break my skillet in and beyond taking a few hits, I wasn't 100% impressed. For how messy it fucking is, I prefer wax. OH OK, let me get to WAX now (CPT'S CHOICE!!!)

ALSO just because you just want to use OIL - read the WAX WARNING section as it applies to OIL TOO. I just wanted to get wax out of the way first before GETTING to this topic, as I can only visually demonstrate this with a thing of wax I bought.......

WAX

You haven't experienced real stoner life yet until you have dabbed wax with a 23G 1" tip needle (still screwed onto the 3cc luer lock of course) on my fat #2 grade titanium skillet, watched the vapor inhale through the curve, through the 18mm/14mm converter into the HiSi 18mm downstem, diffused through a 10-holed showerhead-diffuser (pic for you people who may want one one day!!! - I personally own the longest one in the picture, and it sits as close to the bottom of my bong as it can get without touching; perfect for this type of showerhead diffuser) into my splash-guard, 18mm glass on glass joint beauty of a bong - the splash guard incidentally also works wonderfully as a splash guard without complaint - other than it does leave large ice cube pieces clinking on my downstem and I hope it wouldn't break it one day, so I don't always use ice. Only when I want the fattest dabs do I get out the ice cubes. My bong is also perfect for wax hits as the diameter is smaller of the tube you hold onto, as this enables you to inhale quite a lot this way.

Some people choose to not even water filter their wax hits for maximum high - bonus points of course but hey I prefer some water filtration, even if it's very little; even if a third of the smoke is not getting water filtered, this will still do wonders on how harsh a wax hit can be.

The first 50mg wax dab I had at a bar (it was free and they were hooking me up so I'm sure it was closer to 75mg) had me coughing for a while, so intensely high the second I felt it coming on which was probably like as soon as I had just finished inhaling, I slowly sipped through a glass of water regaining the ability to breathe.... and then it was so great. The first wax hit was the best. Some people who don't even really IV themselves have told me that using the titanium skillet with wax/oil is like IV THC/CBD compared to smoking a blunt/joint/many bong rips (of mid grade; not dank ;) ;)) to get high... as your'e not slowly building up a high with 10-50 puffs of cannabis smoke, you're taking a huuge amount of product and inhaling the majority in 3 seconds, but you still want to inhale for a total of 10-15 seconds to get 100% of the smoke; some dabbers work better than others.

You want the FINEST dabber possible, that will still hold onto your product effectively. In MY experience, I'll also picture what you want for a dabber ;) ;). I can't source where I got my ti curve but if you google for the specifics which I have included here, you'll find sources if it's sold online. If not, head shops across the US carry them, as I have talked to a few people across the US who have had the pleasure of an occasional skillet hit, and I"m surprised because I haven't seen/hit one of these until I got to California. A lot of Californians have them, so I was also bringing this up to ascertain their popularity across the US. However if the US gov't effectively shut down the internet and all IRL head shops, then sorry guys you don't get one? lol... I definitely wouldn't sell mine. I'm addicted now!!! ;) Even though with my bong having a not-so-perfect downstem angle for this peice, and I would prefer to get a new bong and a new downstem, that's a down-the-future idea. For now my wax is fine outta this skillet. :)

At first, I got this shitty wax, and I wasn't as good as dabbing by myself, so I was slightly unimpressed. Now I have gotten 1g of amazing wax, which is essentially the equivalent of a gram of heroin in terms of number of doses (a first timer's dose would be really nice around the 25-100mg area depending on NONE to A LOT of cannabinoid, or oral morphine tolerance in similar mg's listed here). I compared this to heroin not because of price alone but due to the sheer addictive nature of this! So to me, this 1 gram has lasted a long time. At first when I got it, I had a lot of fun, had a lot of hits, then put it away hoping not to use the rest of it for a while. At first I didn't use it every day, but now I find I'm using it all the time! Almost like I have to, in order to enjoy myself 100% ;) the flavor, and the intensity of the smoke you inhale is something else. It's a great harm reduction thing as you are inhaling less smoke.

OH so now you ask me "CPT stop rambling WHAT IS WAX?!" ... wax is... BHO (butane-extracted hash oil) that has been whipped. Whipping it adds weight (air weight) to it... so yeah if you are comparing 1g of quality oil to 1g of EXACT equal quality oil that has been whipped, in the exact equal form of 1,000mg and not 1,000mg+the air you just whipped (whatever weight it would add) but more like just a gram of the wax (assuming it was 1.25g and you sat around and had five half point dabs to get to a I'm almost too high level for 8 hours =D) - then the whole 1,000mg of the oil would be "more" because it would be closer to 100% pureness. There's always 10% plant matter or water or whatever....in it because you can't get 100% pure thc/cbd extract (if you could I'd love to know how in a I can do this in my studio apartment type deal and I don't need a lab or I wouldn't possibly blow up my building type shit ;)) because if you could do that, even if you could only take it certain ROA's (maybe just smoked on weed to make the weed uber potent, or maybe just oral, maybe plugged as it would be in a solution, who knows) - I know THC is water soluble to 1.2mg/mL so if you dissolved kief in water; as long as it was a great amount, wouldn't you still be able to drink it as an edible?? This is my QUESTION to CHAINER as he is the SOLE MODERATOR OF CD at the moment.

So Mr. Chainster what seems to be the conclusion you'd come to here? Possible? Would terpenoids/flavonoids not be as water soluble as THC is so that, persay a 50-100mg of THC could be dissolved in a glass of water, but maybe you'd be missing out on something else??? I don't know. Just an idea. :)

I'd thoroughly enjoy consuming 1,000mg of kief that way if that's the case %) hahahah. Even half that would do me as that's what I've taken - an entire hubby bar. Dark chocolate for life!!

WAX WARNING: This includes BHO too...

When they use butane, they have to purge it for it to be useable. Severely under-purged wax will be neurotoxic. You will see in one picture I HOPE the butane bubbles in this wax product I bought; you want to avoid smoking those as they are pockets of butane that haven't been fully purged. And there's no FEASIBLE way to do so with such tiny product without wasting a great deal of it. Except to "avoid it" by picking it out or whatever...Still very shitty and the whole product is low grade if you see butane bubbles.

The product that I'll also include a picture of, the GOOD wax I've smoked a great deal of (on parchment paper) - wow... this stuff is uhmmmaaaaaazing. I still cream my pants (not literally... I hope people have a sense of humor still...8( not referring to the CD mod at all :)) when I take a fat dab. Due to the edible I've eaten I'm a bit too high to want a hit now but wow, if I had one I'd be too high to go do anything productive today LOL. And that would be a bad thing, I have to go now. Anyways, the good wax has been purged completely, and there's not even 1 butane bubble in this whole amazing thing. It's MUCH stronger and you don't cough at all smoking it. %) The difference is very, very noticeable.

OH - pictures are coming later - SO SORRY about that - but I'll be back FOR HARM REDUCTION!!! You all deserve to see the difference here.
 
the essentials rule

Great Post Captain. A real intersting topic. The essential tools of the trade for dealing with THC substances for myself are included in The Drug Kit(regular backpack)in my room. It comes handy with a quart-sized mason jar full of my own grown(pulled in a quarter lb last month) the jar contains one sativa strain(SLH), one indica(BubbaKush), and if it's going to be a long weekend one hybrid(Kalashnakova, ak-47xwhitewidow). A colored glass pipe I found. A heavy-duty ziplock bag with little hash containers(with various concentrates),and a titanium poker. Also on handy is my propane torch, 2 bic lighters, visine, chapstick, my medical card,a banana(for when there's nothing around to eat), swiss army knife, 2 water bottles(fuck cotton-mouth), and the piece de restistance, my skillet wrapped up in shirts and heavy-duty ziplock bags. These are the essentials for myself, because during binges I'm usually on the move for the day. The Drug Kit has everything in it to keep me comfortable for a day at a time when I'm flying high.:D After years of experience accumulated pretty quickly has led me to develop my drug kit, which also contains varying substances&paraphernalia. But for when I'm hardcore posting up in my house I bust out the vaporizer and connect the whip to my stemless bong! I don't smoke joints/blunts unless I have someone else roll one for me on rare occasions. I own a grinder, but it has only been used less than ten times, I really enjoy crushing/grinding large amounts (4-5g) by hand, then I keep that separately as vaporizer bowls, and the rare joint/blunt. I really do enjoy fine pieces and using them; nice, glass bonging devices, I consider a form of art, and I like collecting nice art.
I would put up pictures, but I'm not sure how to do the NSFW enclosure.:\
 
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Bubba kush? Amazing man. I love bubba kush. :D

Various concentrates? Now we're talking. =D A titanium dabber? Nice. I use stainless steel needles for dabbing.

<3 Skillets!

I'm glad AT LEAST one person read that HUGE post I wrote.

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If the ()'s were []'s, this will work. BTW Chainer resurrected the images thread! :D Thank YOU Chainer!
 
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Most of my collection, i left out big jars and unimportant stuff
:)

my beaker has an 8 arm percolator, a 8 arm ashcatcher/precooler, and that downstem splits into 6 arms, and i keep it supa clean!
i got a dandy glass piece, the IOLITE, and a nifty hand made ceramic concentrate pipe made for my by a friend.
:)
oh and i got a big ball of hemp wick.

Oh and i agree with the grinder use, you can get the best of your meds.
I would also go as far as to recommend the hemp wick to any stoner i know, you will be astounded at the taste difference.
butane tastes like shit and give me a headache, sometimes.
:/
 
I never saw a big difference between percolated bongs and non-percolated bongs. Really the only difference Ive been able to noticeably tell is smoking with or without ice cubes in the bong neck. Ill never buy a bong that cant store ice cubes again, that makes the hit so smooth.
 
shimazu said:
I never saw a big difference between percolated bongs and non-percolated bongs. Really the only difference Ive been able to noticeably tell is smoking with or without ice cubes in the bong neck. Ill never buy a bong that cant store ice cubes again, that makes the hit so smooth.
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You, my friend, have not hit a proper percolated bong, my piece gets the smoke down to room temperature at least, and that is with old water. I put new water in my piece, and its like breathing in cold air that tastes better and is a little bit thicker.
my piece has ice notches in it, but i never use them. the ice doesn't really make a difference anymore.

its all about smaller bubble surface area, and the more times it contacts water in smaller proportions, the more heat exchange is gonna happen.
and trust me, my piece is all about heat exchange and small bubble surface area.

I know what you are saying though, this is one of the few pieces that i actually notice a substancial difference with smoke temperature.
I think alot of percolators dont do anything more than thicken up the smoke and punch you in the lungs.
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Honestly you haven't tried a nice water filtration piece if you think there's no difference between that and a normal bong with only a downstem with 1 hole going in the water.

It's so smoooth. I agree that ice makes it even better though!

Bubbles, how do you like the Iolite? I was thinking of getting a MFLB someday...
 
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I'm not gonna lie, I LOVE MY IOLITE. Alot of people dont much care for it, but i think they aren't very patient people.
I sometimes have to click to sparker more than once to get it to light, no big deal. I would recommend getting the optimiser upgrade for the bowl, as it retains heat much better that way.
I cant stress that optimiser, i can fully vape a bowl in like 10 drags, and just make sure you keep it crazy clean.

If i turn on my Iolite and let it warm up the bowl for about 3 or 4 minutes, it seems to be just right to fill it at that point
The only sound it makes is a pretty damn quiet "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" sound of the torch heating the chamber.
I sat through the entire star wars 3D movie, in a movie theatre, passing it between 6 people not stop, and it lasted the entire movie, probably like 6 bowls.
it smells like buttered popcorn, the vaporiser and the vapor.

i would recommend it to anyone looking for a portable vaporiser that is inconspicuous and does its job.
with that said, dont rush the vape, Alot of people want to be able to just keep hitting it without being patient
:)
 
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Eat and use the cans as drums.
 
double ewe said:
i use a shot-glass and scissors to grind for my vape, since regular grinders don't get it as finely chopped as i want. used to have fancy jars and whatnot for storage, but these days i just stick with prescription bottles.
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Weed doesn't need to be grinded for a vape...
In ireland if we havnt got a bong or whatever we make a Fuck-It
What you need -
2litre or bigger plastic bottle
A socket top with a gauze or some aliminuim foil to make a gauze
Water

1.You burn a hole at the bottom of the bottle about 1cm in size
2. You pack your bowl or makeshift aliminium top (with holes poked using an ear ring or pen ect..)
3.You fill the bottle with water, holding the hole you burned so water doesn't spill out.
4.You put your bowl on the top of the bottle
5. You burn the weed at the top and let the water out at the bottom creating a vacuum so the bottle fills with smoke
6. You leave a small ammount of water at the bottom and by this point the weed should be all gone
7.Take your top off the bottle and suck as hard asi your little lungs will let you, clearing the 2l of smoke in one go.
8. You lie in the corner unable to move because of how wasted you will be

Fuckits are not for beginners, they are imo the number 1 way of getting fucked up on weed. I've been smoking for 6 years and I don't even like doing them...
 
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