Don't laugh, but I need serious help!

[startrip]

Now, while I am not new to the fact of getting stoned, I am new to the whole thing of actually doing it all by myself. Usually it's been at parties and stuff, so now I want to stop being a mooch and get my own stuff, and know how to do it myself. So I have a few questions:

How do you get the stuff ready to place in a pipe, bowl, etc.? Is there a technique or something I should be taking out or leaving in or something?

I have one of those glass sppon/bowl things with the hole on the side. I can take hits from these, yet when attempting to load it myself, I think I messed up, b/c I didn't get messed up. What am I doing wrong so that I can get a good hit?

Hmmm... I think that's it.

Now that I feel like a loser, I hope you will accept me with open arms and teach me the ways of appropriate smoking. Please help b/c the weekends coming soon!

Thanks so much all! :-)

~Jen

"I like monkeys, do you?"

[mulli_melli]

Hey startrip....you've come to the right place!! Welcome to Grasscity.

Everyone has their own little ways of preparing for a session. Personally I take any seed or stem outta the bud and chop it up. You can use scissors or a herb crusher. I've got a crusher so it's a pretty quick process.

I take it u have a bong?? Not that it matters.....just make sure your thumb is on the hole, light your bowl, pull hard and the weed should burn and glow red, smoke will enter the chamber or fill the pipe. Suck it in. Repeat process til you feel high.

If your not feeling high, it might be shitty weed and you need more or your not getting enough smoke into your lungs.

Let us know how you go. You'll be right mate, suss it out, you'll be high in no time!!

[isis_420]

if i understand you right, that little extra hole is a shotgunner. kept a finger/thumb over the hole while you're getting it started. once it's burning, inhale, and take your finger off the hole. you'll get a good blast. just remember to cover while lighting or you'll get too much air and waste it.

you can cut up your stuff for pipes, etc. or you can put in a part of or whole bud. cut for joints though.

[Glenn]

remember to keep the screen in there. if you got a bong to yourself, just hold the smoke in as long as you can. If you smoke a blunt like me, hold it in for up to 10 seconds

[ReformMaryJaneLaws]

I just get the seeds and stems out. use your fingers to make the weed a little finer. Sometimes, if your using a rollin' tray and the stems are out, you can tilt your tray and scoop the weed up several times with the flap that opens on your paper pack and the seeds roll to the other end of the tray.

Make sure you don't leave chunks, it makes the j burn funny but I don't worry about little ones if I'm bongin" it or smoking out of a pipe.

The hole is what we call a carb here. You put your finger on it, light your bowl, suck it, then when your chamber gets full of smoke, lift your finger off and clear it. Make sure the smoke get's in your lungs and you should get ripped after a while.

Enjoy learning. The more you practice, the better you will be and the higher you will get. Getting high alone is great. But it's great with friends, too.


And never feel like a loser-that's what "they" want stoners to think about themselves. WE FUCKIN' ROCK!!!!!! So, yeah, you are welcomed with open arms!!!! Have fun here!!!

[CheebaLaGanja]

if you chop the weed up it will burn better than if you just stick the bud into the pipe, maybe you're packing it a little too tight? and when you get a good hit hold it in for as long as you can, oh and buy good weed then come here to the grasscity and post high!!!

did that make sense?
am I too high?

[startrip]

Ok, I somewhat understand the part about getting the stems and seeds out, but if I put it in my pipe, and it's that fine, won't it just get sucked in the hole and then I eat it? I think that's my prob, someone mentioned not to take the screen out, but I never noticed a screen in anyone's that I have used and I don't have one in mine. I smoked last night and placed a bit of the bud in there and didn't get a really good buzz going on. Hmmm... I don't know what I am doing wrong! And is it cool to scrape out some tabacco from a cigarette and replace it with bud, does it work and is there a certain ratio I should be aware of?

Thanks to everyone for the quick replies, I know if I stick around here, I'll be a pro in no time. And thanks for not making fun! You all are cool!

[StarfuckerInc]

What you do is take pieces of weed. Like a centemeter and place it into your glass bowl. It should be bight enough not to fall in easily, even while lit up red. If your weed is cut or in just shake then you will need a filter. Usually you put these in metal pipes, just be sure that before you use a filter you light up lighter and hold the flame on the filter for liek 10 seconds to burn off any manufacturing shit.

[ganjaphish]

Yeah, try not to break the weed up too much, I do that alot, I am anti-stem to an obsessive point, and you're right, if the weed is too fine it might get sucked through... the trick here is to find a large-enough destemmed/seeded nug to put @ the bottom of your bowl, and if you have alot of shake throw that on top.

Are you covering the side hole(carb) with your finger/thumb while you're hitting the bowl @ first? I think someone already said that, hehe...

As for tobacco, I don't smoke it anymore as a personal choice, but I have heard some people mix tobacco w/ weed to conserve their pot. It depends on how high you want to get, as tobacco has no stoney properties to it. Out here, I have never met anyone to do so, but weed is abundant in Northern Cali so I know we're spoiled!

good luck and you won't be made fun of here, we all started the same way and smoking alone can be a treat. you can always count on the folx here @ the city for help AND entertainment!
xo~