well in case anybody doesn't know what a gravity bong is...

take a plastic bottle, generally a 2-litre but some places sell 3-litre bottles of soda... cut off the very bottom so the bottle is more like a cylinder with a top on it, if that makes any sense... poke a hole in the cap of the bottle that's big enough to screw a bowlpiece into it. an airtight seal, as always, is critical. a bucket that's roughly the same height as the bottle should be filled with water. the top is removed from the bottle, and packed with whatever amount of weed a single hit will include. that's right, you can take maybe half a bowl's worth of weed in a single hit, maybe more with a 3-litre. the bowl is packed with weed while it is NOT ON THE BOTTLE. the bottle is dropped into the water with the CAP NOT ON IT. the top of the bottle should be slightly above the water level, maybe three inches or so. with the bottle lowered into the water and with the bowl packed, screw the top onto the bottle. then, while very slowly lifting the bottle out of the water, ignite the weed. as the bottle is slowly lifted, gravity will pull the water inside the bottle down to stay level with the rest of the water in the bucket. this pulls air through the bowlpiece. the bottle fills with smoke that can become quite brown-looking. if executed perfectly, the bottle will be raised until there are only 2 or 3 inches of bottle below the waterline, and all of the weed in the bowl will have just finished burning. then, the cap is removed, and the person taking the hit puts their mouth over the opening, the top of the bottle, and inhales as the bottle is pushed downward.

pro: absolutely no weed is wasted
pro: you will be stoned beyond belief
con: virtually 100% chance that you'll cough within 1 or 2 seconds of taking the hit, and continue to cough for a bit. that's a lotta smoke!

i saw a guy do this in college who had never smoked weed before in his life. the common tune is that the first time you smoke weed, you don't really get much effect. this guy layed on the floor, on his belly, experiencing the mystery of the universe. at one point we were wondering if he was okay or whatever, and asked how he was doing. he was able to lift his head up off the floor, look over towards us, and smile real big. then he put his head back down on the floor.

he only ever smoked weed one other time that i knew of after that, and again it was the fabled gravity bong.

i wonder how this would work out with really good buds, like "one hit wonder" type stuff. i imagine it would induce hallucination. cause even with shit-ass college-grade ditchweed, i don't remember ever seeing anybody looking for a second hit. duuuuuuuuude!

btw, the reason i capitalized those couple parts... if you drop the bottle into the water with the top on it with a packed bowl, expect the outflow of air to push all the weed out of the bowl and into the water. you're welcome.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:i wonder how this would work out with really good buds, like "one hit wonder" type stuff.

it does rather well.

I learned this Canadian hash-smoking technique from the Sadies: Bottle-tokes or "bottlers."

Find an empty glass coke bottle. Drop a pebble in it. Holding the neck, thump it against your heel until the pebble knocks-out a little hole in the bottle. You now have a "bottle" or "bott."

Using one of your punk rock badges as a pin, you stab a little piece of hash onto the pin, light it, blow it out, and put the smoldering lump through the hole in the side of your bottle. The smoke collects inside the bottle, and when it is full, you can inhale it without wasting any.

I have seen a bottle made as a demonstration, and I was surprised that it worked so easily. I have not seen hash smoked this way, but I don't see why it wouldn't be as much fun as the Sadies described.

I no longer smoke pot, but when I did, it was joints or whatever pipe anybody had sitting around. I remember a six-footer two-man party bong filled with creme de menthe... ahh decadence.

steve wrote:I learned this Canadian hash-smoking technique from the Sadies: Bottle-tokes or "bottlers."

The Sadies!!! Why, just two nights ago, I saw these beautiful guys play with the beautiful Neko Case here in beautiful Tucson, Italia! I love this band so, so much. They are so good. Salut!

Find an empty glass coke bottle. Drop a pebble in it. Holding the neck, thump it against your heel until the pebble knocks-out a little hole in the bottle. You now have a "bottle" or "bott."

If you don't see any pebbles within the vicinity of your session spot than you can use a dime to punch out the hole in the bottle. Surprisingly little force is required. Methinks a pebble might make a cleaner hole though.

I had no idea this technique was a Canadian thing. Cool.

The better question is, who the hell can find a GLASS Coke bottle anymore?

Creme de menthe? Madre de Dio.

ironyengine Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:58 pm Post subject:

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The better question is, who the hell can find a GLASS Coke bottle anymore?


A lot of Mexican restaurants in the Chicago area still sell the 16oz. glass bottles that they still distribute in Mexico. Also, you could go with the short glass bottles that they sell in the states.

Man, nothing beats Coke in a glass bottle. When I was a kid i remember hot summer days you stick one of those bastards in the freezer and let it get slushy. MMMMMMM.

ironyengine wrote:The better question is, who the hell can find a GLASS Coke bottle anymore?

they're everywhere. i mean, not Coke brand, but glass soda bottles. they have them in all kinds of restaurants, like Potbelly's or something. there's a lotta places that sell IBC in glass bottles. but Coke brand specifically, yeah, not so easy to find.

Seriously? I have not seen any kind of glass soda bottle in many years. Perhaps I go to the wrong restaurants.

I remember putting them in freezers though, but not taking them out in time. Blammo. Soda slush and shattered glass all over my frozen cheesybreads.