Last weekend I was getting a taxi home from a night out and the taxi driver decided what I needed in my life was some drugs and gave me what is in the picture.
Now, I've never used any for of drugs in my life and I'm now not sure how to proceed. He insisted this was enough to make three joints and also supplied me with roll up papers. I have no knowledge of weed but that I thought this would maybe only make one.
However, I'm not much of a smoker. I was thinking about trying these weed brownies I hear so much of but is it worth my while? Is this even enough to have any effect? Especially if shared between two people?
>>6599 I'd roll two joints from that, but it's your first time so without any tolerance it may make sense to roll three. My experience with brownies is not extensive, but I'd encourage you to smoke it at first. You have more control of dose, effects arrive faster and this is what I'm less sure about, the effects are more pronounced. I'm sure I'd vomit if I tried to take more than a pull or two of a cigarette, so in that sense I'm not much of a smoker either.
You want to grind it up before smoking. Most regular stoners will have a special metal or plastic grinder but if you're good with a kitchen knife you can chop it up that way. You'll want to smoke joints not blunts to begin with, as the name suggests a joint is joined with tobacco. You'll want to fill up a kingskin with plenty of tobacco then sprinkle some of the ground up green on top. This will give you a nice mellow and slow high. If you do this you'll easily get three Js out of what you have.
Alternatively if you just want to get stoned quickly you can make a bong out of an old milk bottle or something but I wouldn't reccomend this for your first time.
Cookies sound interesting but as >>6602 says you have less control and you have to be careful how you make them so as to not denature the THC too much.
I'd strongly recommend against cooking with cannabis as a novice. When eaten, cannabis takes anywhere from half an hour to an hour to take effect, which makes it very difficult to gauge your dose. It's easy to scare yourself silly by inadvertently taking far too much. Every cannabis user has a story about going mental on brownies.
Cannabis varies enormously in potency (from about 3% to 20%+ active ingredient), so the rapid onset of smoking allows you to gauge the strength by having a small puff, then seeing how you feel before having another. For some reason your picture doesn't want to load properly on my computer, but it appears to be relatively high-quality cannabis. The active ingredients in cannabis (THC and CBD) are found in the little white crystals you can see on the surface of the plant matter.
The traditional British method of smoking cannabis is rolled in a spliff, with a mixture of cannabis and tobacco (usually taken from a cigarette rather than rolling tobacco). The tobacco effectively dilutes the cannabis and improves the rolling and burning characteristics of the spliff. You can roll a pure cannabis joint (as the Americans often do), but I wouldn't particularly recommend it. I'm sure YouTube is full of detailed tutorials on how to roll a spliff.
As an occasional cannabis smoker, I am personally very fond of pipes - they are convenient, do not require the use of tobacco and allow for the cannabis to be smoked in small measured increments without waste. You can buy a simple metal pipe for around £2 from a head shop or market stall, or fabricate a crude pipe from an apple or a drinks can, as described at the link below:
Do yourself a favour and throw it away or give it to someone else. Weed it a shit drug. It makes people boring and more important happy to be bored. There are a myriad of interesting drugs out there so I would suggest that you try something else if you want to get cross that line.
Angry stoners please note that I smoked an awful lot of weed in my teens and 20s and also did loads of other drugs so my opinions are based on personal experience. Obviously it's only subjective.
>>6606 >usually taken from a cigarette rather than rolling tobacco
I've never heard of or seen people do this, what difference does it make?
>>6607 Shit guys it's the boring police, we better start BASE jumping off of skyscrapers before we get called boring again. Imagine a life not constantly obsessed with being the interesting centre of attention huh?
Rolling tobacco is relatively moist and stringy, which is ideal for rolling cigarettes but is a right faff when rolling a spliff. Tobacco from a cigarette has a drier, flakier consistency that mixes better with ground or chopped cannabis.
>>6610 The bigger difference in my opinion is the taste. I've never particularly liked filter cigs, but unfiltered the tobacco they contain is particularly hot and harsh to inhale. Each to their own, though.
I'd suggest a pipe for the first timer, if you don't have someone around to show you how to roll. Take it slow - small amounts at first.
I would definitely not recommend using cigarette tobacco to roll with for a first timer. It may roll easier but its a one way ticket to whitey city, and it tastes like absolute shit. Way harsher. Buy some Golden Virginia and get practicing.
Eating it is risky. You might fuck it up, or as previously suggested go a bit mental. I know Maroon knows how to make Cannabutter, which you'll need if you make brownies.
Nothing wrong with using one if you happen to have one, but I prefer the common sort of metal pipe that you'll find for a couple of quid at any head shop.
With tobacco, the nicotine is found throughout the leaf, so you want to completely combust it. Tobacco pipes have relatively large bowls, intended to be filled with a good-sized pinch of tobacco that keeps burning for some time. The active drug in cannabis is only found on the surface of the plant matter, so you're only looking to superficially heat the herb in order to cause the drug to vapourise. Filling a big bowl and repeatedly re-heating the same cannabis means you're inhaling a lot of superfluous smoke from the plant matter itself, which is harsh tasting and doesn't actually get you high. The smaller bowls on cannabis pipes are designed with this in mind, with the expectation that the bowl will be emptied and re-filled after every hit or two.
