What's the preferred method? Hemp wick tends to be a pain and lighters .. Well do I really need to say anything..
butane is bad for you, I use hempwick when I can.. but I mostly roll joints so I only need 1 spark, not gonna waste hempwick on that lol
I'm currently using hemp wick bee line to be exact. I love it just sometimes I get so into making sure its out I forget I'm hitting a bong and usually blow myself up
I prefer my bics. I bought about 3 rolls of beeline, thought it was cool at the store after hearing about it on here. I used about a foot and threw away all of it. Pain in the ass to use, flame goes out at the slightest breeze, and I kept burning my carpet or table, because I'll prop it up but it'll drop or whatever. To me it isn't worth the trouble, lighters are so much easier to use. Also with bics, you can hold the flame above the weed and the heat will ignite the bowl without as much butane as if you smoked it normally. My ex would spark the lighter in the bowl and I'd see flint sparking inside the bowl all the time, I flick under the bowl and bring it higher than most would to light a bowl, it seems like less butane could get sucked up.
You'll get mixed answers on here. I'll try and play Devils advocate and give pros and cons of each. Your standard bic lighter: easy to light, provides a large flame BUT you can taste the butane in your hits and can cause headaches (similar to accidentally smoking stems) Hemp wick: you have to hold the lighter/match on it for a short time to get it started. Not long, but it's not instant flame like a lighter, and the flame is kind of small and goes out in the slightest breeze. But it makes up for providing a much cleaner smoke, where you taste your bud and nothkg else, also the high is a cleaner high if that makes sense. In conclusion: I use lighters when I'm going on rides, or just need to be efficient. But I use hempwick when I'm alone, or even just in groups passing the bong around a circle (mostly indoors)
If you hold the wick down and let the fire climb up the wick a little bit then you can get a bigger flame... If that makes any sense lol
I agree with trying to use beeline if you can but yeah sometimes it's just not simple, like in a car and the windows are down, doesn't work so well under those circumstances. But if I have packed the bowl considerably more than usual I use the clipper lighter that the beeline is wrapped around, because I can't always get it all lit up before my pull runs out. Howard Marks: A dealer is really just someone who buys more dope than he can smoke. And I have to say, I'm ashamed, I tried to smoke it all. There was just too fuckin' much of it.
For some reason my bong always sucks the flame from the hempwick and puts it out before I can get a hit going. Prefer a lighter for bongs just because I've had the hempwick go out so many times.
I personally use hemp wick all the time. Everything about butane is true. It tastes bad, it'll give you a headache, and personally i feel like it roasts the weed way quicker than the wick. Yes a slight breeze will blow it out so i just wrap it around whatever lighter im using so that its always handy and i can just quickly light it back up again.
I'll probably be one of the few here, but uhh the amount of butane you inhale is so minuscule. I also never got headaches or tasted any nastiness with using lighters. I guess my biggest fear is not blowing the wick out when I'm high as hell. Like for example, I couldn't find my lighter, which you would need to light the hemp wick anyways, and grabbed my zippo instead. Don't smoke with a zippo. Awful! Anyways, the damn thing got hot and in my stoned state I dropped it...onto my comforter...I swiped it up into my hands and sent it flying into the wall to put the flame out. So yeah, I rather have the fire go out when I'm stoned, but that's just my two cents.
Hempwick. I stopped using it for a while though, but now getting back into the routine. The flame going out is my only problem, and it's so small...just relight and be more cautious bringing the wick to the bud. Another problem I have with it is when I'm taking my hit and the wick flame has went out, the smoke from it runs up in my nose and eyes and irritates me. I'd choose the wick over the bic anytime.