The Bong - What are facts and what are fakes?

[AllDayToker]

Hey RIU members,

While I sit here stoned, I start to question myself about the almighty bong, and realized I have no answers. So I got a few questions for everyone who wants to participate.

So they say a bong gets you higher, is this true or not? I understand that you can take much larger hits but say you take the same size hit as you would a pipe. I honestly feel like it's just a different high. Like pipe high, bong high, joint high, I feel they are different, but not stronger or weaker.

Anyways next thing I was thinking about. I know bongs filter stuff, but what exactly? I heard people say you lose THC in the water, but I thought THC wasn't water soluble. Does it filter the chlorophyll or just resin and ash? And with this fact, is more chambers healthier then?

Umm... I thought I had another question but maybe not. If I remember something I'll add it haha.

Stay stoned,
AllDay

 

[TheWiseInfidel]

i don't know if more chambers is better but theres this hindu smoke shop that sells a bong with like 4 chambers n it looks fire. i would like to LIGHT some fire in that.

 

[cannabineer]

Hello AllDay

I treat bongs like any other pipes and use'm dry. I am leery of using the water-filtration tactic because I'm convinced that the water removes as much goods as bads. THC is not water-soluble, but the droplets of THC smoke get washed out anyway ... mechanically, not chemically, the way a shower "rinses" bathroom air of unauthorized smoking.
But where I much prefer a bong (or other pipe big enough that i can supervise all stages of heat) to, say, a joint ... is in efficiency. I can measure out a "just right" hit, burn, hold ... exhale. Repeat until fork tender. cn

 

[burrestnight07]

i prefer a joint too my man. my least favorite thing is a blunt, you can smoke a joint just as fat, and not have a nasty aftertaste.
My friend has a 3 footish ROOR water bong with an ice catcher, and that thing gives you a whole other type of high than my ZONG, ROORs give a special high.

 

[racerboy71]

i had always thought that what the water is filtering out is the tar in the cannabis.. cannabis has tar much like tobacco, but at much lower levels then tobacco..

you're right about the thc, it's not water soluble, so nothing is lost in the water filtration..

i'd think that more filtration, ie, more chambers, does more filtering of the smoke, therefore it would be healthier by the time you smoke it..

i also think smoking out of a bong is the method i get most stoned or high from, bowls being second, then blunts and lastly joints, with vapes trailing way behind ...

just my $.02..

 

[burrestnight07]

that and a quarter ounce with just a bowl lasts way longer than anything else. AND IF YOU DONT USE A GRINDER. GET ONE!. your missing out, they like multiply the weed. plus you dont squish it while you break it up. Totaly different topic thoo

 

[AllDayToker]

See what gets my highest is joints, then vapes, then bongs, then pipes. But like burrestnight was saying about the ROOR bong getting you higher then is zong, I have pipes and bongs like that too, some seem to get me higher then others for some reason.

I have like 3 or 4 grinders on that other subject haha.

You think it's more of a placebo effect at that point?

I under how THC droplets could get knocked off mechanically. Is that really true or is that something you've heard?

 

[D3monic]

Honestly I believe the multiple chambers are more for cooling of the smoke than "cleansing" I only have one peculator on my bong but would like one of those three chamber deals. I have always preferred bongs over the years. Next up obviously pipe. Joints I tend to just smoke till its gone.

Weed goes MUCH faster in a bong IMO.

 

[AllDayToker]

I for surely agree with weed going faster in bongs, but that might be just because all of my friends are damn iron lungs mofos.

I know it helps the cooling, but then once you get into the diffusion part, I hear that smaller more stacked bubbles gives you a smoother hit because the smoke particles are smaller, but couldn't it just be because you're bong is like jugging with huge bubbles and that jugging, personally, like vibrates my throat and makes me cough, and bongs with more drag I can hit a lot easier, or take bigger hits.

 

[TheWiseInfidel]

i'm a classical nigga so blunts is my FAVORITE to smoke. i smoke straight dutches not that bitchmade swisha or white owls YA FEEL ME. i take the glue paper off though n make my blunts as "healthy" as possible. i smoke alot with my niggaz too so i feel like a bong or pipe is mad weird to smoke with your peeps. i have a pipe i smoke when i'm dolo and bongs are cool for parties but if i'm in a cypher with two of my boys i'll just roll up a nice L and blow down. old school status

 

[D3monic]

Never cared for blunts. Cigar paper just adds horrible taste to what should be some bomb ass chronic.

 

[AllDayToker]

I'd agree with you on that D3monic, plus it makes it that much more harsh.

On a side note I just learned that falling coconuts kills 150 people every year, and marijuana still kills 0.

Anyone enjoy making bongs? I've been making bongs since I started smoking and still do it while I have plenty of glass ones. Always found it fun, make a 5 arm perc out of 2 pill bottles, made bong with 2 detachable percs and a chamber to put bud in and let it get covered in resin, like a chamber pipe. Made pre coolers and just a bunch of crazy bong stuff. Made one out of a honey bottle that looked like a chair, made the down stem his piece lol.

 

[D3monic]

I'd agree with you on that D3monic, plus it makes it that much more harsh.

On a side note I just learned that falling coconuts kills 150 people every year, and marijuana still kills 0.

Anyone enjoy making bongs? I've been making bongs since I started smoking and still do it while I have plenty of glass ones. Always found it fun, make a 5 arm perc out of 2 pill bottles, made bong with 2 detachable percs and a chamber to put bud in and let it get covered in resin, like a chamber pipe. Made pre coolers and just a bunch of crazy bong stuff. Made one out of a honey bottle that looked like a chair, made the down stem his piece lol.

Always magivering myself bongs, especially when I was a teen.

 

[TheWiseInfidel]

ya'll are wild. the blunts i roll taste like straight herb. if i take a hit of my L then take a hit of somebodies L who DIDN'T take glue paper off, i immediately tell the difference. my L's ALWAYS have a nice light smoke. ya just gotta be mad meticulous about taking the right amount of paper off so you only have enough to house the herb and close it

 

[Chief Walkin Eagle]

I live blunts more than joints. I like the tobacco paper of blunts, adds a nice taste I think and gets you more high. Bongs are my favorite though. I think bongs only get you more high if your able to take a fat hit.

 

[The Count]

Ive retired all my glass($1500 worth) and papers/blunts... wifey purchased a volcano vaporizer for our anniversary gift and thats my go to guy. Still pull the bingers out every now and then just to remind me of the good ol days but they just dont compare to the volcano. Bongs hit you in the lungs and the volcano tears up the back of your throat. I feel like I get way more stoned with the vape and my lungs feel so much better

 

[srh88]

i'm a classical nigga so blunts is my FAVORITE to smoke. i smoke straight dutches not that bitchmade swisha or white owls YA FEEL ME. i take the glue paper off though n make my blunts as "healthy" as possible. i smoke alot with my niggaz too so i feel like a bong or pipe is mad weird to smoke with your peeps. i have a pipe i smoke when i'm dolo and bongs are cool for parties but if i'm in a cypher with two of my boys i'll just roll up a nice L and blow down. old school status

 

[TheWiseInfidel]

LMAOOOOO you cool as a fan bro. xzibit face is classical

 

[Chiceh]

BONG ftw! . I have been smoking for many years and have always preferred the glass water bong or bubblers. It has the cleanest buzz, easier on the lungs and no fuss to pack a bowl, light it and get high. Joints for me are a waste of weed. They make me cough and my lips go numb even with a filter, you waste some while it burns away and not to mention the paper and glue you smoke and I don't find the buzz as nice as a bong hit buzz.
Pipes makes my lips numb too, maybe its the resin. With a bong this doesn't happen.
I have also tried several vaporizers and don't like them either lol. The buzz isn't has hard hitting and the after taste is yuck in my opinion.
Recently I have made some juice out of some tincture for one of those e-cigs with refillable cartridges and use it for travels, it seems to do the job but again not like a bong does lol.
Smoking weed is a personal thing when it comes to the tools, to each their own. I prefer the fast smooth hit of a bong.

 

[DustBomb]

i love bongs but i tend to get used to them and i dont feel as high and that when u bring out the volcano... but they do filter out things... perfect example... i had some really good kush and in my bong it has an ok taste and had a great buzz... one day i decided to use my dry bowl and smoke some and had a wayyyy stronger taste, same with the bubbler.. so with more chambers of filtration and reductions u lose a bit of taste.