Methods of consumption of Cannabis

2009.04.27

There are many different lies, truths and myths concerning the consumption of cannabis or marijuana. Cannabis is better known as Marijuana and is consumed in many different ways such as through smoking or eating or even drinking it.

Smoking is the most common and yet the least effective method for in digesting marijuana and experiencing it’s tantalizing effects. There are many methods of smoking cannabis or marijuana such as joints or the cigarettes which are the favorites of smokers around. They are used as shake marijuana’s from which the seeds and stems are firstly removed and they are then folded inside the rice papers and rolled into cylinders. This is one of the portable methods of smoking grass.

There are some techniques available for smoking joints and maximizing and actually experiencing its effects double fold. A really effective technique for smoking a joint is taking a power hit which is having a helper or a partner cover the burning joint end with his/her mouth and blowing on it while the other partner takes a hit from the other end of the joint. Manners require the joint smokers to pass the joint round in a circle for all those present. You cannot hoard or Bogart a joint as that would be a huge mistake on the smoker’s part.

Another way of consuming or smoking cannabis is by using bongs or water pipes. In this way consuming the cannabis, one passes the smoke through water to cool and filter it. One of the main benefits of smoking hashish or cannabis or marijuana though a bong is that the smoke is cooled and carcinogens are mostly removed without doing away with its more active ingredients.

Pipes are the easiest and the simplest form of methods available to smoke marijuana. They are very similar to pipes which are used for smoking tobacco but these marijuana pipes are more heat resistant and are made from materials such as metal, ivory, glass and different woods.

Other methods of smoking cannabis or marijuana include one-hits or dug-outs, gravity bongs, tilt pipes and gas pipes also called carbureted pipes.