Chicago Marathon Journey: Week 12 Update

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What’s good, tokers?

It has been a minute since I have reported in for you, but I am back for the moment. The Chicago marathon training is going very well. Today is the start of week 12 of 18 of my training and I am still fired up.

Last week, I suffered a major set back. I injured my foot and couldn’t run. But instead of crying about it. I fired up some ganja, chilled out and just rode the stationary bike for the week. Let me just say riding 15 to 25 miles a day is no joke and I really hope it has kept me in shape for the running that is ahead of me. I feel like it did.

Weight Loss & Marijuana

For all of those that don’t think running can take the pounds and inches off of your body, think again. I have lost 15 pounds since starting my marathon training. The crazy thing is that I didn’t realize that I had any weight to lose. I thought my body was all good and I was looking and feeling good.

Well, now I look and feel GREAT! Yes, I said it and I haven’t even fired one up for the day just yet. But I do feel great. I am at my old football playing weight back in college over 13 years ago and loving it. Once I start doing some push ups and sit ups, then I will really be back.

But just wanted to keep you in the loop on my progress. I am still at it, smoking and running like a mad man. This is going to be awesome to break that tape downtown Chicago and prove to all the people and smokers in the world that marijuana can be smoked while you are training for anything, including a marathon.

Be blessed and some something!

The Marijuana Perspective on the New US Health Care Bill

It is official, Potheads, the United States of America has a new health care bill that passed is and is being touted as the most historic legislation in the past 40 years. As Vice President, Joe Biden, said, “This is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!”

I couldn’t believe that he said such a think to the President on the mic. What, did he not know the microphone would be live and on when it is next to the President, or did he just not give a damn because it was a big fucking deal.

No matter how you feel about the legislation, it was about time this country did something to help the people that are struggling through this economy.

With that said, I am not feeling this bill at all. It is luke warm as they say. Think about it, this bill pleased no one, but the Insurance companies, the President didn’t get the support he wanted and how are they going to stop Insurance companies from raising the prices.

I would have liked to see a nonprofit healthcare sector. That would have done it for me. At least that would have giving me the illusion that someone cared about the people. The people are only the backbone, muscle, and tissue of this country. You would think or hope that those that Govern it would at least show an interest in the people beyond lip service.

I don’t want to get to political on this site, but Potheads have an opinion as well.

One bill I would like to see is the one that legalizes marijuana and makes it available to the people to use on the medical and recreational purposes.

What do you think of the Health Care bill?

Marijuana Perspective on Drywall Removal

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Today is a most interesting day. I woke with the knowledge that the kids would away at play and I would have ample time to myself. My wife is away on a trip for a week, so there is ample me time. It is great, but can get old fast especially when you have grown comfortable being with someone.

Anyway, so it is 2:18pm and I finally got a chance to fire up my blunt and sit at the computer. But I have been cutting wholes in my ceiling and searching for a leaky pipe.

A few months back, my wife and I stopped using our shower because we feared it was leaking water onto our drywall below and cause major damage and dollars. Well, today was the day I decided I was going to tackle this issue. So, i jumped into my truck and ran to Menards to get a drywall knife to start doing damage.

As you can see from the pics, I went to work in two particular locations.  The first one was underneath my master shower and the second in the corner, above the door way. Need to see below the master shower to see if there were leaks from the drain, nothing. Then, there was wet spots showing in the corner, so I cut a section out there.

When I turned the shower on, there was no sign of wet surfaces or water dripping. I thought I was in the clear, but wanted to call in someone else. So I called my neighbor, he came over from bowling and drinking a bit, rushes upstairs to piss, and used one of the bathrooms above where I had been cutting  into the ceiling and water falls on the floor.

Turns out, it was the second floor, common toilet that was leaking all these months, not our master shower. Hahahaha, so yes, we had not used our shower in months for nothing. That is too funny.

My neighbor had a good laugh, but it is all good to me cause I can’t wait to take a shower there. It is not much, but it is mine.

Part 2 coming: The Toilet

There is more coming because now we have to remove the toilet, then change the wax ring, what ever that is. Guess I will find out today.  But, now I am high as I have step aboard the spaceship and took a flight. So, this next project should be interesting,

Introducing Jackson Blaze

What’s crackin Potheads,

Don’t pay attention to the remodeling I am doing around here at We Smoke Marijuana. The purpose to get get a bit more personal, blog a little more frequently, more importantly set up my soap box and give you the Marijuana perspective.

Jackson Blaze delivers THE MARIJUANA PERSPECTIVE

If don’t correctly, this won’t be a one way lecture, but a conversation involving you. I promise to shoot from the him, write most blogs high from some sweet ganja, and to have a good time doing this.

Hope you will participate, invite others, but it should be found to get and give the Marijuana Perspective on all sorts of issues, done in a frank, honest, and elevated perspective, the marijuana perspective.

Who is Jackson Blaze?

I am the everyday person that wants more for their children, love life, get high and work diligently in my profession. I am an entrepreneur that has created the luxury of working from home everyday. I have had three jobs in my life, one in high school, one in undergrad, and one in grad school. Once I graduated, I was and have been on my own.

One of the chief reasons this is so is because I like to blow ganja, be with my family, actively raise my children, stay fit, read, learn, grow and more, but these things are made difficult following the typical employment paths. Therefore, I am an ambitious, opinionated, compassionate entrepreneur that will be speaking with you from time to time about things that occupy my mind while high.

Update

There will be a few changes made to the site, but looking forward getting the conversation started.

Back in a bit,

Jackson Blaze

Pipes and Bongs

Most smokers want to know what is so great about smoking out of pipes and bongs, which is a great question. My immediate thought is, who would ask this question? They must be new smokers, but that is cool. I remember the good old days when I first started smoking marijuana, weed, ganja, the goodness, mary jane, joints, spliffs, twigs, whatever you want to call it.

I began smoking weed 15 years ago for the first time. Will never forget it. In college, I hadn’t tried any drugs at all because I was an athlete and didn’t want to taint my body with any poisons. Well, my freshmen year, I lived in the dorms across the hall from these two dudes from the south somewhere. They were cool as hell.

Hitting the Bong for the first time

One day, I am over their room and he pulls out the bong. This was not regular bong. This was a red, three foot, tubular bong with a black rubber piece at the top, a black plastic base at the bottom, and a silver mouthpiece sticking out at the bottom. It was polished and clean.

Inside this three foot long bong was a little bit of water and ice cubes. I was told that this was to ensure the smoke from the bong would be cooled so it goes down our lungs easily without the burn. Thought that was a great idea….and it was.

The bowl of the bong was packed and it was time to fire up the bong and get our smoke on. What a way to be introduced to marijuana. It was my turn, so I stepped up in the cypher. Putting the lighter to the bud, my mouth to the rubber end of the bong, and inhaling. The smoke rushed up the three foot bong and straight into my lungs. As you can imagine I damn near coughed my lungs up and my eyes turned red immediately. I was high as hell.

By the time I walked across the hall to my dorm room, my roommate couldn’t believe what he say. I was so high, cheesy smiling, and laughing that it had to be hilarious. I ate all the snacks in our room and that was the beginning of my love affair with Mary Jane. It began with a big ass bong.

Pipes and Bongs

Pipes and bongs are the premiere way to smoke marijuana, weed as far as I am concerned. You will love it because you get pure marijuana and not the paper or the blunt that you might be smoking out of. Using the pipe or the bong is a great way to remove one variable from your smoking that you can control.

In addition, using pipes and bongs to smoke marijuana will save you money and make your weed last longer. Just think about it, you smoke more than you need with your blunt and your joints. I know you do cause I do the same thing. I find that one bowl on the pipes and bongs has me high as hell, especially if it is that purple haze marijuana or weed. That shit is fire and I love it, but you don’t need much of it. In a blunt or a joint, you wind up wasting the weed by letting it burn or just smoking more than you need to be high.

In pipes and bongs, you get just what you need and are able to put the rest away. You will enjoy smoking marijuana out of a pipes and bongs, we promise.

Tasty Weed Recipe for all Freedom Fighters: Chocolate Gnosh

Ingredients:

½ oz finely ground marijuana bud

Cheesecloth

3 Cups Water

1 Cup Brewed Coffee

1 stick unsalted butter

1 bag chocolate morsels

1. In a medium saucepan, boil water.

2. Add Butter

3. When butter is melted, add finely ground marijuana bud, simmer for 1 hour stirring occasionally.

4. Strain mixture into a large enough bowl through the cheesecloth.  Be sure to thoroughly rinse all butter from grounds in cheesecloth.

5. Discard cheesecloth and ground bud remains discreetly.

6. Mixture in bowl should be free of plant matter, butter and water mixed together and still very hot, be careful.

7. Cover bowl and refrigerate for at least 8 hours

8. Remove cover from bowl, butter will be solidified at the top of the water.

9. Remove butter and place in a separate bowl allowing it to soften to room temperature.

10. In a double boiler, add chocolate to begin melting.

11. Once chocolate is softened, add coffee and butter slowly until well blended.

12. Do not overheat the chocolate; the coffee will help with consistency as you add the butter.  Allow mixture to get to a very soft liquid state, but not to a boil.  Boiling will reduce the THC level in the butter.

13. Once mixed well, pour into chocolate molds and allow to cool.

14. Eat and enjoy.

Ways To Smoke Weed2

Welcome back to ways to smoke weed, a great series we are doing on smoking weed, marijuana, ganja, and the goodness. This is part 2 of Ways to Smoke Marijuana, which you can find here.

In the last article series, we covered a variety of ways to smoke marijuana, so let’s do a quick review for those that might have missed it. Ways 1 through 4 where:

1) Onion Blunts – If you have to ask, then you are not hip yet. We will share.

2) Roll a Joint – This is the all time classic way to smoke weed.

3) Roll a Blunt – This is the hip hop version of the classic weed smoking method.

4) Pack a Bong – Got to love packing up a phatty into a bong and smoking it.

Ok, now that the quick review is over with, let’s get back into the content with more ways to smoke weed. I don’t  know about you, but this could go on forever if we get some participation from the readership because I know damn well that you have several ways to smoke weed that I am not aware of, so don’t be shy and share them below in the comment section. We will publish them and work on building a comprehensive list of how to get high as hell with different ways to smoke weed and marijuana.

Ways to Smoke Weed – Continued

5) Use a one hitter – A one hitter is a nifty way to smoke weed if you don’t need a lot or want a lot at the time being. The reason I say that is because if you use a one hitter, then you will only be able to take basically one hit at a time. Therefore, if you wanted to consume a larger amount of marijuana, then you would have to constantly pack and re-pack the one hitter to get more. However, one hitters have their function.

For example, if you are out in public and just want to get quickly zooted, then an one hitter is perfect for this situation. I remember being on the magnificent mile in Chicago, Il, sitting at an outside bar with a beer, and enjoying the day. Struck up a conversation with this guy that was pretty cool. After a while of conversing, the conversation turned to weed and he pulled out his little kit with the one hitter tucked inside and passed it to me.

I packed the one hitter by packing it down inside the box, which filled the tip with weed or marijuana, pulled it out, lit it up right there on the magnificent mile and toked away. It was awesome and no one noticed because the one hitter was made to look like a cigarette. They are very practical when out and about and just want to get a bit high for the moment. Works best with high grade marijuana.

6) A Can – Ok, I know this might be getting a bit extreme for many of you, but bare with me. In college, you tend to have a bunch of time on your hands and not a lot of money. We didn’t have an onion, so a friend of mine was being very creative and figure out a way for us to smoke weed out of a soda can.

He crushed the can down in the middle to create a V shape in the middle of the can and poked wholes in that area of the can. We set the weed on the wholes in the can, lit the weed, and pulled the smoke out through the soda can whole that typical people drink out of. It is not the most efficient way to smoke weed, but it works. I got high has hell and loved it. I must admit that I have not smoked out of a can since that day, but I remember it and it is possible.

7) Vaporize the Weed – A vaporizer is awesome, but let me warn you know. If you are not a real deal weed head, then maybe you should not be messing with this thing. A vaporizer will do just that to your weed, vaporize it into tiny particles that you cannot even see. You inhale these particles just like you would if it were smoke, then exhale it out after holding for a bit in your lungs. This is a very powerful and smokeless method of getting high, but again I think you should exercise caution. For those of you that are trying the Hide the smell of weed and marijuana, then this is for you because there is no smoke. In the article that is linked, we go into more details on ways to hide the smell of weed for you.

Also, we have a video posted on what is a vaporizer here if you are interested.

Have more ways to smoke weed?

If so, share them with us. We are interested in compiling a comprehensive list of the different ways to smoke weed and get high as hell. Let me know if this list was good for you and what you have to offer to add to it. Let’s build the biggest list known to man on ways to smoke weed.