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What is the composition of bowl resin?

shortjazzdude

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I know that bowl resin and hash are two totally different things. Also, the high from smoking bowl resin is different than the high fromweed or hash. What is bowl resin composed of?
 
Layman's answer: Tar. Have you ever seen one of those anti-smoking ads (or even in high school Health class) with a picture or specimen of a smokers' lung after so many years? You know all that black shit, that tar that's completely covering the inside of the organ?

THAT'S resin. Granted, tobacco resin likely is more carcinogenic, but really, in terms of carcinogens, do we really want to start quantifying just how effective a substance is at causing cancer? Personally, I'd prefer not to have anything labelled "carcinogenic" polluting my body.


Science-y answer: I don't have one. Lol, sorry for the set-up. Who knows, there might exist some kind of bong resin analysis somewhere... I just know I've never seen one and, funny enough, no one's ever asked this specific question of or around me before.
 
Bowl resin is a hodgepodge of nasty stuff.

THC, CBD, other cannabinoid pyrolysis/oxidation products.
Hydrocarbon tars.
Cellulose, sugars, tars from same.
Nitrogenous bases and salts thereof.
Minerals - "ash" - sodium, potassium, magnesium, iron, etc as chlorides, oxides, carbonates, phosphates, or sulfates
Terpenes & terpene oxidates.
Water, light-moecular weight organic compounds.

Resin contains substantially less THC and more products of THC oxidation and breakdown (cannabinol, analogues of THCV, CBD, etc) as well as a higher percentage of nonpsychoactive nasties ("tars", compounds like pyridine, amines etc).
 
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