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.

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.

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.

If you are interested in seeing the documentary in its entirety, then I am posted a link here for your view. Full Hemp Documentary, but here is a clip for you to get an overview here:

Hemp History

The use of hemp has been around for thousands of years. I know this may be hard to believe, but it is true. There have been documented evidence of the ancient Egyptians using the plant, the Chinese using it back in it’s Dynasty era, India has used it for thousands of years, the aboriginal Australians, South Americans, and even those in the Americas thousands of years ago.

Knowing that hemp has been used for food, clothing, canvases, fibers, oil, a smoking substance and more, leads us to wonder how and why did hemp all but disappear from the modern productive world? Well, this documentary goes into this as well, but we will leave that for later.

Just understand that hemp has not always been a damned drug in this world and we believe one day it will be back and thus will free the people from the entrapments of corporate greed. Cause once you understand how and why hemp was banned in the United States, the influence the United States has on the rest of the world, then you will get why this was a corporate decision and not the will of the people. But we will get into that in a moment.

The United States was founded on the backbone of the hemp movement. All paper during the founding of the country was created on hemp. In fact, the declaration of Independence was printed on 100% hemp paper.

Hemp, the Forest, and Paper

Hemp is critical to the forest because it has the capacity to save the forest from destruction of people. Each year, people consume billions of pounds of paper for reading, books, wrapping gifts and a myriad of other activities. But each one of these activities takes trees to create the paper used. These trees are being torn down day and day in the forest of the world. This may not seem like a big deal, but at the rate we are on today, this simply isn’t a sustainable future. Eventually, we will run out of trees to continue feeding our paper fetish.

Not to mention that the paper that are generated by wood has a lower quality of paper than compared to hemp. These papers need to be treated and infested with tons and tons of chemicals that treat the wood and turn it into useful paper. These chemicals run off into the water streams around the plants and infect the environment around it. The pollution from making paper is crazy and it makes no sense when there is an option that grows from the ground.

Hemp paper does not need any chemicals or pesticides to grow, unlike cotton. So hemp is great for the environment. And in paper production, the chemicals to make paper useful are not needed in hemp paper. It is just completely friendly to the environment.

More on Hemp

There are many, many more uses for hemp and the derivatives that it produces that it isn’t even funny. If people really want to make a difference in this world, then they have to wake up to the reality that this plant was put here by the Gods to help the people, not harm them.

But until hemp is legalized, we will smoke in protest. Smoke one to the greatness of the hemp plant!

The people that opposed the medicinal marijuana use were outraged at the message this would send the youth that marijuana is acceptable and ok for them to try. One lady quoted some statistics that said that marijuana usage goes up with the perception that is ok by the greater society, which is interesting considering marijuana has never been perceived as acceptable, so I wonder where she made these figures up from.

Besides, there are greater drug issues, crime, and economic conditions that need to be addressed instead of fighting marijuana legalization in the State of New Jersey.

Opposition aside, this is a major victory for those living in the State of New Jersey that have cancer and a myriad of other infections where their quality of life and appetite can be restored by the use of medicinal marijuana. Now finally maybe the thousands of medical marijuana doctors that support this movement can come out and start practicing like they know is best for their patients. Below is a video from court proceedings.

Like it or not, medicinal marijuana is coming to an hospital near you. There just seems to be too much need, research, and support for it to be much longer before it is not used in the medical field and eventually legalized.

After the American Medical Association approved marijuana for medical research purposes and reversing their over 50 year stance against it, the tide turned. Now people are more likely to be open to the possibility that marijuana might be the wonder drug that it was once thought to be.

American Medical Association & Medicinal Marijuana

As WSM reported in this article about the American Medical Association supporting marijuana, we knew that this done would be coming our way soon. They AMA reported that they are willing to open up medicinal marijuana to more testing and allow doctors and chemist to begin testing drugs that can be created from marijuana that will help the medical community deal with the rising illnesses and troubles of the people.

There is little doubt that marijuana can be used to help people with cataracts, glaucoma, asthma, the common cold, and more, but there is hope that it might be very helpful in ADD, ADHD, cancer, sickle cell anemia, and more. Think about how wonderful this would be if these illnesses and many more can be tamed by something that grows out of the ground and is very sustainable. This would be huge, which is one more reason we feel that Medicinal marijuana will be coming to an hospital near you soon.

Medicinal Marijuana Research

Every since marijuana was made illegal in 1937 here in the United States, it has had a very hard time proving it’s medicinal uses to the public. The reason is because most of the credible researchers that they American people would trust dropped out of researching the herb for medical purposes as they thought that it had no chance of being legalized for medical or personal use, so why continue the studies?

The people that were studying the medicinal uses of marijuana were fringe researchers here in the United States and others from foreign countries, but Americans are not likely to trust either group. Therefore, for about 70 years, medicinal marijuana has been lost in the shuffle of the drug war, teenage usage, and lies about how it effects the body.

With the backing of the American Medical Association and even the Obama administration that told Federal agencies to leave marijuana clinics in States that allow them to operate alone, medicinal marijuana is posted to take to the lime light and enter the hospitals as a viable drug that has the capacity to change the medical field and the world.

The Need for Medicinal Marijuana

It really puzzles me that people are not open to even testing the uses and benefits of medicinal marijuana. You would think that with all the illness and sickness in this world that are not being solved by more dangerous drugs, the medical field and the people would be open to explore the uses and functions of medicinal marijuana, but they are not. They are closed minded and don’t even want to acknowledge any of the benefits or victories that have already been accredited to marijuana.

For example, people with multiple sclerosis are greatly benefited by smoking marijuana, but people act like those that do should be thrown in jail. This is ridiculous. We are all grown ups and if you want to smoke, then smoke. But if smoking greatly improves your quality of life, who are we to say that you shouldn’t be doing it. I always thought the medical field was here to help the people, but it seems like they are not.

Yet with the American Medical Association changing it’s stance on medicinal marijuana, the doors of opportunity seem to be opening and the lights of the hospital will shine on marijuana soon.

On Tuesday, November 10th, 2009, the American Medical Association, AMA, shocked the world and gave a ringing endorsement to the medical marijuana by altering their 72 year stance against the drug and it’s benefits to the medical world.

This move shocked most supports of the medical marijuana and those that oppose the legalization of marijuana for any reason. The reason this is so stunning to people is because there were really no signs of warning that this was coming. The AMA, and it’s 250,000 member doctors, have always been consistent in their dismay for the potential use of medical marijuana.

However, give the AMA and their leadership some credit. They are obviously willing to be flexible with the times and have been weight the research that has been pouring in supporting the medical benefits of the marijuana.

However, as of 1997, the AMA has had a strong stance against marijuana and classified it as a Substance I drug that has no medical benefits what’s so ever. Other drugs that share in this category are PCP and LSD, which his a bit harsher than marijuana and might be understandable. To give you some perspective, cocaine and amphetamines have been given Substance II clearance because they have been recognized to have some medical value.

The AMA made it clear that they were not giving an outright endorsement of marijuana and it’s legalization, but simply wants to open the door to more clinical trials and see if more cannabis based drugs can be prepared to help mankind. That is their clear aim with this decision and it is sitting very well with medical and recreational marijuana supporters.

Still the AMA made this statement as well, “This should not be viewed as an endorsement of state-based medical cannabis programs, the legalization of marijuana, or that scientific evidence on the therapeutic use of cannabis meets the current standards for a prescription drug product.” They merely want to open the door for more testing.

President Obama has yet to comment on the issue. But there is clear evidence that he wants to leave the door open for medical marijuana research and study. His administration even ordered Federal law enforcement agencies to stop shutting down medical marijuana clinics and facilities that are following State laws. This was another positive for the marijuana movement.

AMA endorses Medical Marijuana

Overall, this is a positive step for not only medical marijuana users, supporters, and believers, but for marijuana smokers in general. Because you have to figure that if marijuana will ever be legalized in this country, it will start with the legalization of medical marijuana first, then trickle into recreational use as well. At least, we can only hope.

Way to go American Medical Association, AMA, for finally getting on the right side of the medical, medicinal marijuana usage debate!

We have had the opportunity to smoke marijuana in New York, California, Chicago, Texas, and everywhere in between. However, I can tell you this. There is no place like New York. You might think that it is the financial capital of the world, but a quick ride around town and you will f ind out that it is also fighting for the right to be called the marijuana capital of the world

New York and marijuana

The great State of New York has been smoking marijuana since before it was officially introduced as a state. The so called Indianas and the the dwellers of the Canadian region were heavily into marijuana or ganja at the time. Once the United States took control of the region, there was little they could do about the wide spread use of marijuana in this State.

And to be truthful, there was nothing that they wanted to do. It wasn’t until 1937 when the Marijuana laws were passed and the beautiful drug became illegal in New York and every other state in the union that the police and government tried to do something about it. Now, we won’t go into why marijuana was made illegal in the first place in this article, but we will explore this idea in greater detail later. Believe that!

New York Marijuana Scene

Today, the New York Marijuana scene is buzzing. It doesn’t matter if you are upstate or down state, Mary Jane is everywhere and the people are open and honest about loving it to the fullest.

The wild thing about it is that everyone smokes marijuana in New York. The media portrays the hip hop community as the only segment that enjoys marijuana, but this is so far from the truth it is shameful for them to put such a slant on it.

Now don’t get me wrong, the hip hop community seems to love their marijuana and weed, skunk, ganja like the best of them, but they are by far not the only ones that are into the naturally growing substance. In fact, depending on where you are will determine the weed smokers that ou will find.

Because if you are in the business district and you the trust of the group, you will find CEOs, attorneys, real estate agents, managers, executives, and even politicians enjoying the ganja, marijuana from time to time.

If you are in the rural areas of New York, yes they have rural areas in New York, then you will find the hick townsmen enjoying the fine grass of marijuana as well. If you are in the projects, you will find the hood mates enjoying the stress free smoking of the ganja as well.

New York Marijuana Scene

It doesn’t matter your nationality, your race, your religion, your creed, all walks of life enjoy the goodness that Mary Jane and marijuana brings to their life. Don’t fight it! When you are in New York be sure to enjoy the marijuana scene cause you will thank yourself!

What’s up, Big Time Smokers?

I hope you have a phatty ready for the ride and the experience that we are about to share today. On my mind is my favorite times to smoke marijuana and/or weed, whatever you like to call it. Sometimes I call it ganja and just like to keep it moving.

Anyway, the this post came about because I was hanging with some of my friends the other day and one of them said that they were headed outside to smoke. I said, what are you smoking and the response was NOT CIGAREETTES. You know what that means? Fire it up!

Nevertheless, this was one of my favorite times to smoke because….well, I will explain in a second, but let’s get into the list.

Here are my top5 times to smoke marijuana and/or weed:

1) 4:20pm – You know this is the international time to smoke a phatty, so don’t even fight it. Whenever I am fortunate enough to fire one up at this time I feel the worldwide solidarity of the moment and I love to participate. What smoker doesn’t, right?

2) Alone – No, this doesn’t mean that I have a problem and so what if it does, I really don’t care cause I like it. Whenever I am able to fire up a phat one it gives me great time to think and provides insight on my life and existance that I don’t like to take for granted. I am able to clear my mind and skull of all the chatter that is going on around me and for a few moments relax and plot my course for the future.

3) When no one else is high in the room – Yes, this is a thrill for me. I don’t get the paranoid feelings that everyone is looking at me cause I am looking at everyone else thinking, why are you not smoking? Nevertheless, I find that it makes the conversations much more interesting, real and enjoyable than the regular bullshit conversations that most people engage in on a day to day basis.

4) With Good Friends – There is nothing like firing up some goodness with a group of people that you know, love, and respect. It tends to make the conversation a lot more interesting as well, in addition, providing additional insight to the thought process of many of your friends because they tend to put their guard down when responding.

5) Before Sex – Regaurdless of the lies that you hear people talking about, marijuana enhances sex. Well it does for me. I am able to feel every nuance of my partners touch and warmness on my body and it is great. I am not sure what it does for the length of time that we may have sex. In fact, I think it my decrease the length of time because your body is stimulated and feeling every subtle movement and essence of your partner, but I don’t think this is a bad thing.

So, there you have it. Those are my top 5 times to smoke marijuana and/or weed. What are yours?

Often times I wonder why there are not more songs about marijuana and weed on the radio, but I guess in these times people getting more and more into heavier drugs, but that just isn’t my scene.

Just sit me down with Mary Jane and I am good just the same. She is my main thang!

Enjoy the viddy!