when i was in college in missoula montana, we had a friend that always had the best pot and tons of money, but never dealt. one night some friends of mine were wasted and watching the news. they announced a major dope growing operation got busted in town. the next scene they showed was our buddy and his dad in those orange prison jump suits in court wating araignment.

hey, i know exactly who you are talking about

i can't remember his last name, and i will refrain from typing his first just b/c it seems rude to out someone for a pot bust on the internet

tmidgett wrote:
hey, i know exactly who you are talking about

i can't remember his last name, and i will refrain from typing his first just b/c it seems rude to out someone for a pot bust on the internet

this would have been 1989. when the cops busted him/dad, they were so fuckin excited that they didn't even do a good check of the property. the missed almost a pound of weed that was not even really hidden.

word to the wise, heres how they got busted. someone snitched, so the cops got a warrent to moniter their electric wattage usage. bingo. I think his dad took most of the fall, but i'm not real sure of the final outcome because I moved back to evanston.

I usually do bongs, but if I'm smoking with someone else then it's joints. Passing a half smoked bong is a waste because most of the THC boils off on the first hit. (THC boils at a lower temperature than plant material will burn, which is the theory behind the vapourizer.)
When I can finally afford a varporizer I'll never smoke weed in any other way. It does not get you MORE stoned, as some people say, but it does get you JUST AS stoned, without all of the nasty tar.

They are also trying to do that with ciggarettes so as not to be so damaging to the lungs. Another good thing about using the vaporizer with the pot is that you can resell it to some shmuck even though the thc has been removed

capnreverb wrote:why isn't weed enema a choice?

interestingly enough. one of my friends from college was busted in Chicago four years ago for some sort of offense, maybe drunken driving, but i doubt it, cause you can drive drunk in Chicago anytime. I digress. as he tells it, before the cops busted him he was looking for a place to hide his piece. i guess he decided the safest place was his ass. after a night in the grey bar hotel, he took out the piece and promptly cleaned it. as far as I know he still uses that piece. everytime we smoked with him, he insisted on using that thing, and would always say we were smoking a "little piece of my ass." whatever.

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seriously.

the best part of the above link is that the picture is totally mundane

this would have been 1989. when the cops busted him/dad, they were so fuckin excited that they didn't even do a good check of the property. the missed almost a pound of weed that was not even really hidden.

word to the wise, heres how they got busted. someone snitched, so the cops got a warrent to moniter their electric wattage usage. bingo. I think his dad took most of the fall, but i'm not real sure of the final outcome because I moved back to evanston.

yes, that is the kid. it dried up missoula for months, as i recall.

i think you're right that his dad took most of the fall

and the electric-usage thing had a ripple effect on the other potgrowers in msla, that's for sure

anyway, back in the day, when i still smoked weed on occasion, the water pipe was the preferred method. one of my pals had an apogee bong, which seemed very nice to us. he claimed it filtered out 98% of the whatchacallit (tar) that was bad for your lungs and left 98% of the whatchacallit (thc) that made you high. or something. i don't really remember b/c i was high on pot.

the beer can, however, was always good. it had a satisfying, _my side of the mountain_ feeling of utility and ingenuity about it, even it was a ubiquitous way of doing things.

The idea of smoking out of beer / soda (pop) cans always sketched me out, something about the idea of putting fire to aluminum cans - and the plastic sheet or whatever they use to put the labels and designs on - and then inhaling? No thanks bro. Gimme them bananas and rhubarb any day.

Purely for anthropological purposes, I'd be very interested to hear of any locale-peculiar techniques....I think the beer can thing is pretty ubiquitious, but pot does weave some very specific little rituals of preparation in some places.
For example - purely for purposes of education you understand - here in new zealand tobacco is never mixed with weed. You cut a joint like that, people will freak out. In addition, the practise of "spotting" is undertaken to imbibe the weed to the exclusion of joints, bongs, vaporisers etc. Spotting requires that two elongated pieces of metal be placed directly on a stove element, preferably gas, and then heated - butter knives are frequently employed for this. I would recommend wooden or ivory-handled ones for this, as the metal-handled ones get too hot to touch too quickly. With the two knives hot - don't keep them off the element long tho - a small piece of unchopped whole bud roughly 1/8" to 1/4" cubed, usually rolled up into a small ball, hence the term "spotting", is pincered off a plate or wooden board between the two flat ends of the knives. Once grabbed it will burn in about two seconds, and the smoke gets inhaled through either a small tube or a cut-off soft-drink bottle, held directly over the knives.
The 'spot' can be self-administered or shared between a "driver" and "spot-taker", though it is most commonly a highly social activity where everyone holes up in the kitchen in a queue, whilst the house host or weed bearer "drives" and introductions and conversations are made.
Due to the extremely low waste of smoke level, participants get particulary efficient use of their quantity of marijuana, with predictable results.
In some parts of the country, along the west coast of the north Island, a "rising" spot is sometimes performed, to further maximise the good-times potential. This involves hyperventilating for about a minute in a standing position, then exhaling and squatting, followed by a "spot" being slowly administered and inhaled whilst slowly rising to a standing position, with the period of the inhaltion matching the rise-to-standing.
A massive headrush is reported by participants, who give universally positive impressions of the experience.
Purely for educative purposes, I'd be very interested to hear of any other techniques specific to places or people.

skinny honkie wrote:Spotting requires that two elongated pieces of metal be placed directly on a stove element, preferably gas, and then heated

Interesting - here we call this "hot kniving" and I have only heard of it being done with hashish, not marijuana. I suppose in NZ you get much stickier weed than we do?

The only other specific technique I can think of are "frosted milkshakes" which involves freezing a shotglass, inserting a joint into the plastic barrel of a ballpoint pen, and inserting the LIT end into your mouth gently (so as not to put it out, or burn your face off) and BLOWING the smoke back through the pen-barrel, into the frozen shotglass. Here, some law of physics causes the smoke to collect in the glass and condense to such a point that you can lift the glass and literally pour it into your mouth. Or, if you're an insane man like my roommate, inhale the smoke from the glass nasally. From what I have observed, this latter method apparently hurts like hell.