Written by
Dead man walking philippd@yahoo.com
Aidan Ryder aidan@broomlee.demon.co.uk
PhatCat vogelma4@pilot.msu.edu
Welcome to alt.drugs.pot! Sit back and smoke up,
you`ve found the home of the usenet stoners...discuss whatever you want from
good films to watch stoned to smoking methods to legal issues. Try not to ask
about buying or selling cannabis through the net -
you aren`t *that* stupid are you?
1.2 What about the description?
The "official usenet" description of a.d.p. is "Use rec.drugs.cannabis instead." But they`re lying to you. Oh yes. Use both dude :-)
alt.drugs : Focuses on drugs in general, not specifically pot. If you have questions on drugs other than pot then post here.
alt.drugs.pot.cultivation: Very intense discussions on growing cannabis. If your trying to grow cannabis and need GOOD info, we recommend this group
alt.drugs.psychedelics: Sometimes discuss pot a little. Mainly talk about the more powerful psychedelics like LSD, mushrooms, etc....
rec.drugs.cannabis: Most similar to ADP. Talk about recreational use of cannabis
talk.politics.drugs: If your wanting to become a
hardcore legalization activist, this is the place for you. Talk on political
aspects of legalizing pot and other drugs goes on here and the flames are fierce
2. Basic questions
A bong is a pipe which draws the smoke through water to cleanse and cool it.
Hash is short for hashish. It`s a cannabis "product", looks like a solid block, usually any colour from dark brown to green. If your hash is black it might be "re-pressed" i.e. it`s been cut with diesel fuel, asphalt, plastic or other nasty things, usually in small quantities. Don`t worry too much about smoking re-pressed hash if you`ve got some sitting around, but it`s probably best not to buy it if you can.
420 is the Californian police code for marijuana smoking in progress - thus it has a kind of mystical significance to us stoners, people spark up at 4:20 etcetera...though this may not be true, there`s been some serious debate on it recently...well, whatever, it`s 420 man...it just IS!
2.4 Could you explain all those funky words for me?
Sure thing. Thanks to Ross G Winter for help with this section, and also to all those who replied to my post on a.d.p. about this.
ALICE B. TOKLAS
- The lesbian lover of Gertrude Stein and a good friend of Pablo
Picasso, she had a recipe for killer marijuana brownies.
BALE - A compressed brick of marijuana,
usually ranging in weight from 10 to 40 pounds.
BHANG - An Indian and Middle Eastern
smoking mixture consisting of pollen from marijuana flowers and ghee, an oily
butter. In medieval Arabia it also referred to a datura-based knockout potion.
BLITZED - Out of it, stoned. See
ZONKED.
BLUNT - A joint rolled in the
tobacco-leaf wrapper of a Phillies Blunt cigar.
BONG - A water-cooled pipe for
one smoker, often made of glass or bamboo.
BRICK - A kilogram-sized slab
or cube of compressed pot.
BUCKET - Gravity Bong
BUD - The fresh or dried flowers
of the female marijuana plant.
BUDDHA STICK - See Thai Stick.
CANNABIS INDICA - The scientific
name for a species of marijuana plant, the Indian hemp plant.
CANNABIS SATIVA - Another species
of marijuana, closely related to indica.
CANOE - Joint burns faster on
one side, see also Elvis and Run
CHIBA-CHIBA - A black Brazilian
form of reefer, usually gummy and compressed into bricks.
CHILLUM/CHALICE - A cone-shaped
pipe made of clay, or sometimes of fruit or vegetable rinds.
CHRONIC - The hip-hop term for
high-quality or potent reefer.
COCKTAIL - A joint of tobacco
and marijuana combined.
COLOMBIAN - The most common type
of grass on the black market.
DAUGHTER - Quarter (As in Farmer's
Daughter - Quarter)
DOOBIE - A 1960s and '70s term
for joint; the word originated on the baby-boomer kiddy show Romper Room, where
the good children were called "good Do-Bes."
DOPE - Any controlled substance,
although it usually refers to heroin or marijuana; also a hip-hop term for fine
or good.
DOPE LOG - Big, well packed joint
DOZRED - Confused or stoned. See
also WANKERED, BLITZED, SLAUGHTERED, RIPPED.
x DRAW PASS - Smoking style. Take
x tokes, then pass it on
DOSHU - Slang for ganja (found
on adp)
DURBAN BROWN - Marijuana from
Natal Province in South Africa.
ELBOW - A pound of pot.
ELVISING - When one side of a
joint burns faster than the other, creating a "quiff".
FRESH/PHAT - Hip-hop term for
good, great, grand, dope, fine; having an ample stash or supply of dope.
GAGE - 1940s slang for pot.
GANJA - Indian and Jamaican term
for pot.
GARRICK - See roach. South-African
term.
GAS BAG - Very weak hotbag, little
smoke.
GOLD - Yellow pot from Acapulco
in Mexico or Santa Marta Department in Colombia.
GRASS - Marijuana, weed, pot,
etc.
GREENERY - Weed
HAND BONG - Put the J between
the little and ring fingers of your right hand. Put your right hand crossways
over your left, leaving a space between them, try to seal any holes. Toke from
between the thumbs.
HASHISH/HASH - Smoking mixture
that regionally varies, generally based primarily on resin from substandard
Middle Eastern or Indian marijuana.
HEMP - Cannabis stalks and stems,
especially those used to make rope, fabrics, etc.
HENRY - Eighth (As in Henry the
Eighth)
HERB - Jamaican term for marijuana
with Biblical connotations; Rastafarian sacrament.
HOOKAH - A hashish waterpipe with
four long stems to accommodate four smokers at once; ref. the Caterpillar in
Alice In Wonderland.
HOTBAG - Lung (like a portable
gravity bong with a bag instead of water)
IN CROWD - Hipsters who throw
secret parties for vipers only.
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Circa the
1940s and '50s, a term for a roach-holder fashioned from a matchbook cover.
JIVE - 1930s and '40s slang for
marijuana and marijuana-influenced popular music.
JOHNSON - 1960s term for a joint,
referring either to LBJ or the membrum virile.
JOINT/JAY - A marijuana cigarette.
KIEF/KIF/KAFF/KHAYF - Golden pollen
hash from Morocco, Lebanon and other Arab/Middle Eastern nations. It is said
that "A puff of kif in the morning makes a man as strong as 1,000 camels in
the courtyard."
LAMBSBREAD - Large Jamaican buds
which can be sliced like a loaf of bread and are shaped like a lamb's tail.
LEFTY - Slang used to refer to
marijuana cigarette.
MARIJUANA - The smokable flowers
and leaves of the female cannabis plant.
MARY JANE/M.J. - The female cannabis
plant. Male plants have almost no active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
MEZZ - Marijuana; from Mezz Mezzrow,
the legendary jazzman and Harlem pot-dealer who turned on Louis Armstrong and
other jazz greats during the 1930s.
MUGGLES - 1930s and '40s slang
for pot.
NICKEL BAG - Five dollars worth
of pot, or any other street intoxicant.
OIL - The purified and concentrated
resin from hashish or marijuana.
OH-ZEE - An ounce of pot.
PANAMA RED - A potent strain of
pot from Panama.
PARACHUTE - Slang for Hotbag/Lung
PARAQUAT - A defoliant, toxic
to humans as well as plants, that has been sprayed on marijuana throughout the
world since the '70s.
PESKY - Weak, as in "What a pesky
joint"
PETARD - French slang for joint
PHATTIE - Big, packed joint or
blunt
PINNER - Small Joint
POT - Reefer, grass, cannabis.
RAMBLIES (aka Rambly Toots) -
The last few tokes on a joint
REEFER - Term for pot dating back
to the turn of the century, and still popular.
RIPPED - Stoned, another variation
is RIPPED TO THE TITS, from the backing of an Orb song
RIZLAS - British smoking papers
ROACH - (UK) Rolled strip of card
at end of joint to smoke through, stops you getting tobacco in your mouth.
ROACH - (US) The butt of a joint;
it is strong because it catches and concentrates the resin from the rest of
the joint.
ROCKY - Hash
ROPE DOPE - Low-quality pot from
leafy hemp.
RUNNING - Like a Canoe or Elvis.
As in "The joint is running, fix it man"
SINSEMILLA - The flowering tops
of seedless plants.
SHIT - Any sort of controlled
substance. Or excrement. Make sure not to buy the latter by mistake.
SKINS - Rolling papers
SKINNING UP - Rolling a joint
SKUNK - Aromatic sinsemilla, usually
cultivated from the Afghani variety of marijuana.
SLAUGHTERED - Stoned. Very stoned.
SMOKE - Pot, reefer, tea, grass,
etc.
SNASH - Weed (a corruption of
stash)
SPLIFF - Jamaican term for a large,
ice-cream-cone-shaped joint.
STASH (n.) - A hidden cache of
dope; (v.) to conceal one's dope.
TEA - Slang for maryjane, muggles,
gage, etc.
TEA PAD - In Harlem in the '30s
and '40s, an after-hours club where pot was smoked and jazz music performed.
TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL/THC - The
psychoactive cannabinoid in marijuana that is responsible for the high.
TEXAS HAND OFF - Passing a joint
so that you also stick your middle finger up at the recipient
THAI STICK - A delicious Thai
variety of marijuana, usually wrapped around thin bamboo splints or popsicle-stick
slivers.
THYME (OR OREGANO) - Spices resembling
marijuana in appearance, frequently used to defraud customers.
TIMEBOMB - A style of smoking
where you hold in the toke `til you get the joint back.
TOKE - To inhale, or puff, from
a joint of reefer.
TOKE MONK- Someone who stays in
and tokes all day.
TWENTY AND FORTY - Hip-hop term
for a $20 bag of reefer and a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor.
TWIGS AND SEEDS - The unsmokable
leftovers from screening marijuana before sale, or the stuff at the bottom of
the bag after purchase.
UNDERGROUND - The drug-using sector
of society.
VIPER - 1930s hipsters who frequented
tea pads and smoked jive; onomatopoeic from ssssssssst, the sound made by an
inhaling pot-smoker.
WANKERED - Stoned. Actually quite
a worrying phrase, if you think about it literally.
WEED Pot, weed, smoke, herb, etc.
WIZARD - An Ounce (As in Wizard
of Oz)
WOD - Sometimes written WoD. Stands
for WAR ON DRUGS, which is what America is trying (and failing) to do
ZONKED - Very stoned, spaced-out,
wasted, ripped, destroyed, wrecked, intoxicated all to Hell and gone.
ZIG-ZAG - A brand of rolling papers
famous for the silhouette of a bearded smoker on the label.
More terms will be added as we get `em. Send us a mail if you know of/use a term not on the list....
2.5 What's the meaning of life?
42. Dumb question. Note that 420 must therefore logically be 10 times as good :-)
2.6 How do I find a dealer in my area?
If you are new to an area and are of the college
age or slightly older, check your local parks for those who you may assume would
follow Phish in their spare time. Most likely keep your eyes peeled for a hackey
sack or hemp necklaces for sale. Many have been done right that way. However,
the best way to score ganja is to develop friendships. You never want to buy
from someone you don't know or through some pot/heroin/meth/crack dealer on
the street. If you really care about what the ganj is, take some time before
randomly going out and buying. Remember too that our favorite L.E.Os (Law Enforcement
Officers) are always lurking so please be careful!
A follow up commentary
from Pundit to any newbies looking to buy in a.d.p
You won't (usually) find one here. As it's impossible to guarantee that the
person you're buying from, or selling to, isn't a LEO, you're taking a huge
risk.
The only exception is if you happen to live in the same area as someone else on ADP. They may be able to point you in the right direction...
And whatever you do, don't buy from someone that comes on here offering mail order service. I'm sure there ARE a few honest ones, but most will just rip you off....
This message brought to you by the partnership for
a safer, bust free ADP.
2.7
Grams? Ounces? What`s with this shit man?
Go to
3. Building questions
Basically, practice makes perfect. And in this game, practice is always fun. Here`s some methods, try `em out with just tobacco (rolling tobacco is often easier than cigarette tobacco) if you want to practice, and try try try till you roll the perfect joint
Basic additional guidelines: (note that 1.25 = normal size skins, 1.5 = king-size skins)
1. I find it best to start your joint rolling experience with larger papers, usually 1.5 size. It gives you a chance to get the feel for rolling, how to gauge the amount you need, and it's much easier to get it tight if you have more space to roll with. Gradually as your technique improves, you can go down to smaller papers, so you are breathing less paper smoke. I personally like 1.25s because they are longer and have less paper wrapped around the magic stuff inside.
2. Break your pot up very finely, but don't turn it into dust. You can crumble it too small, then you can't get the proper aereation so you don't pop a lung trying to hit off it. By the same token, sticks and stems will break your paper, and huge bud pieces make the joint uneven, and it won't burn properly.
3. The crucial point in any roll is the initial tuck. It is essential that you tuck the lip of the pouch in before you roll, especially with thinner papers. With larger papers, such as 1.5s, you can let the lip of the pouch flat against the back, and fold it back as you make the first roll, but this isn't possible with a thinner paper, which is what your ultimate goal is.
4. Don't over slobber. I can't stress this enough people. If you overlick the gum, you get a wet, sloppy paper that will tear on you. (This is also related to the old etiquette rule, don't lip the joint.)
5. There is a difference in paper quality. Zig-Zags and JOBs are the best. The gum sticks easily, the paper is thin, and the flavor is very subdued. Of course there are lots of specialty and flavored papers out there, like Randy's and Rizla's. Experiment with these.
6.
Finally, and most importantly, the only way you'll ever be able to whip off
a spliff that's tight, smokeable, and burns well, in under a minute, is.....PRACTICE!
A nice site for more advanced rollers with loads
of new ways of skinning up:
http://www.icelord.net/legalize/handbook/map.html
Rolling in America (many thanks granny!)
..'kay, here's granny's method for rolling with zigzags
which we used in the good old days...
first of all, use White zigzags (thinnest) and, learn to tear the bottom 1/4
off the paper (the less paper the better - you DO want to smoke what's inside
more than you want to smoke paper, don't you?). The most excellent doober is
one with only one thickness of paper around the guts.
Second of all, here's what your hands are doing. Put your hand together like you're praying, don't interweave your fingers, just put them together, pointed up. Now point straight out in front of you. Now open your hands, but keep your middle and ring fingers touching. You can wave around your thumbs and index fingers, right? 'kay. this is the rolling position. You're gonna use your thumbs to stabilize the bottom of the roll, which contains the herb, and you're gonna use your index fingers first in the front to stabilize the bit of paper at the top of the filled portion and then in the back to support your thumbs upward roll from the back of the paper once you've got it started. Still with me..'kay..
Fold about 1/3 of the paper up towards the glue strip, with the glue strip always facing you. then, using your thumbs, roll the paper back down. (the paper is empty right now - you're just making the paper flexible) Now you have a nice little curve to your paper.
Sprinkle the herb inside, evenly across the length
of the paper. Now, assume the prayer-rolling position with your hands, holding
the paper with your index, ring and little fingers from the back, and thumbs
from the front. brace this little cache with your thumbs on each side across
the front of that folded and filled portion of the paper. bring your index fingers
forward (from the back of the paper where your ring finger is, to the front,
where your thumbs are) and put them across the top of the paper, just above
your thumbs, where the curved and filled part of the paper meets the remainder
of the paper (the glue strip is still facing you). use your index fingers to
keep the top of the curved and filled paper facing inward, and, start the roll
with your thumbs, which are still across the curved and filled part of the paper.
The only purpose of your index fingers is to make sure that the upper edge of
that filled portion of paper is tucked under as your thumbs roll up. As soon
as you have made sure the upper end of the curve is tucked in, you can get your
index fingers out of the way, moving them to the back of the paper, back where
your middle, ring and little fingers are, and using your index fingers from
the back and thumbs from the front, twist that puppy up. If you do this right,
you will end up with your hands still together, pretty much vertical, with a
rolled joint on the tip of your index fingers and thumbs. Then, roll it back
down just a little to lick the glue, roll it back up, and voila - le joint....
3.1.2 How to make a hash and baccy joint Brit style.
First get a pack of standard sized rolling papers, a pack of cigarettes and some hash. Some thin card (non-glossy) would help too. Anyway, get three skins out of the pack (if the skins are normal sized, if you are using king-sized then just use one and skip to rolling the cig in the paper). Find a flat surface. Lick a little of the gum
at one end of one of the papers and attach another to the end. Fold the third in two, lick the gum on both sides and slip it into the join between the other 2. Then press down for a sec or two, then lift them apart and remove the third skin. Press the other two back together and hopefully the gum that has transferred from the third skin will stick `em. Then roll the cig in the paper to get it starting to curl. Hold the papers with the gum furthest from you, facing up. Lick a finger and wet one side of the cig, and split it along there. Crumble the tobacco up a bit (it gets chunky sometimes) and put it into the now curled skin formation (you can use weed instead of tobacco, and it makes an even better spliff). Get your hash (you can use bud just as easy) and heat it so it crumbles nice and fine. Leave a bit from one end to about 1cm into the joint clear of weed at that end. get your strip of card (or rip a 1cm wide 2cm long strip from the skin packet) and roll it along the 2cm so you get a short fat rolled tube. Put this in the end of the joint at the end where the weed doesn`t go down to.
Curl the non-gum edge around the roach and tuck it in. Then roll the whole joint from this start, pausing before it rolls to run your tongue along the gum line across the top of the J so it sticks. Now get a twig or pen or whatever and poke the loose baccy/hash in the open end down `til the joint is quite tight. Then twist the skins closed above the mix. When you want to smoke it bite the twisted skin bit off and flame the end.
3.1.3 Rolling other types of joint
OK, get some normal size papers, not kings...
Now stick one to the bottom of another and one across the end...Right. Now lay
your mix/weed across diagonally, with a kind of cone shape to it. The cone end
should be at the point marked *, ===== is the gummed edge. Now put a roach in
(cardboard rolled into a little tube)at the point +, diagonal and nudging up
to the mix/weed. Now roll from the top left corner over the roach, and round,
rolling the joint up from that end...lick it when the gum strip is about to
meet the paper again. Finish it up by getting a pen and poking down in the open
cone end to tighten the mix up and pack it down...when it feels pretty packed
down then twist the paper above it and bite off the twist. Smoke it. Fly home.
Rolling up a Rosebud (aka a Tulip)
First take several skins, and gum them together so
you have a square about 2" wide, with gum along one edge. Now fold the corner
opposite the gummed edge in, lick a finger and run it along the fold, then tear
off the corner. Now you should be able to roll the skin formation into a cone
and use the gummed edge to stick it together (the end with the corner removed
is the pointy end). Then, if you are using hash, empty out two cigarettes, and
crumble a lot of hash into the mound of baccy, mixing it through. Should be
about a 50-50 hash/baccy mix. If you are using weed, you`ll need quite a bit,
broken up nicely. Then you fill the cone with your weed or baccy/hash mix, stopping
about 3/4cm from filling the cone completely. Now get a long thin strip of card
(bout 2.5" should be fine) and roll it into a tube, nice and tight. Here comes
the tricky bit...you may need another person to help here (ask your parents
kids). Jam the tube (the roach) into the ganja so it goes just a little way
in, then get a length of thread (hair is too damn hard to use, don`t try) and
put around the cone at about the same level that the ganja stops. Tighten the
thread and tie it, so the edges of the cone are pulled in tight to the roach,
and it holds. Now there should be a bit of rolling paper above the thread, lying
along the roach. You can fluff this out to form the "petals" if you want. Anyway,
then you spark the pointy end while toking through the roach. Be warned this
thing hits like a truck when you get further down because of the amount of surface
burning at once...
OK, making a steamroller. First off, what are they?
Well, they are a device to add a carb to a joint to allow you to suck in air
as the toker goes down and power up the hit.
Building one is quite simple.
Method 1 - Take a toilet-roll
tube. Punch hole in middle of the "top" of the tube. Put joint in. Cover other
end with hand and toke a coupla times, then remove hand while still inhaling.
Blam.
Method 2 - The green Smartie variant
Get a Smarties tube (you DO have Smarties over there in WoDland right?) and a pen. Oh, and a packed joint WITH A CARD ROACH The roach should be about 3/4cm long. Now put two holes in the side of the smarties tube with the pen. One halfway down it, one at the non-lid end (not in the end, in the side of the tube before the end). Both holes should be in a line...i.e. on the same "side" of the tube. Now remove the lid, and squash the roached end of the joint into the hole at the end (the roach should spring back out a bit...anyway, it should seal. If not, use a little tape).
Now toke through the tube with a finger over the
middle hole while you toke. Take a draw, then release your finger from the hole.
Repeat until you fall over.
3.2 How do I build a bong? (see bong.gif)
OK, get a jam-jar. Now grab a couple of bits of metal tube (bout bit less than 1cm diameter bore is ideal, and pen-tubes work fine). Make two holes in the lid of the jam-jar, about 2 cm apart. Push the tubes through, one has to go in `til it`s only just poking above the lid, the other goes at about a 45 degree angle from vertical and only goes through the lid for about 1cm.
Now get some tape and seal the join between the tubes
and the hole. Fill the jar nearly to the top with water. The tube that is pushed
right down should be underwater, but the end of the angled tube should be above
the water. Screw the jar lid on tight (this might need sealing with tape too),
and put a bowl or chillum over the tube you pushed down. Seal it on if necessary,
then fill it with ganja, light up and toke through the angled tube.
Here's a list of some other bongs to build.
3.2.1 THE GRAVITY BONG (aka THE BUCKET)
1) Go out and get a 3l bottle and a 2l bottle of
Coke, Mountain Dew, whatever
2) Drink it. All in one now :P
3) Cut both of them in half. Ditch the top half of the 3l, and the base of the
2l.
4) Fill the base of the 3l with water
5) Now make a chillum (see separate)
6) Put the top half of the 2l in the bottom (water filled) half of the 3l
7) Put the chillum in the neck of the 2l, fill with ganja.
8) Burn the ganj with a lighter (constant flame) while slowly pulling
the 2l up from the 3l. Stop before the 2l leaves the water.
9) Remove the chillum, hand over the open neck of the (now smoke filled) 2l
10) (optional) Push the 2l down, hand over top to seal it, stopping before it
causes the 3l to overflow - this is a "ceremonial dunk"
11) Mouth to the neck of the 2l, remove hand, and inhale the smoke. You may
wish to push the 2l down as you inhale to force the smoke into your lungs.
THE IMPROVED GRAVITY BONG written by TJSoaSoaS (in rec.drugs.cannabis, damn!)
Here is something I added to our gravity bong, and it makes the hits much easier to take. Well, first of all, we use a real bowl instead of a foil one. I took an old, unused wooden bowl and cut a hole in the bottle lid for the screw on the bottom of the bowl. Then I sealed it with silicon. Then I took this tube from a chem lab. Its about a half inch in diameter. I cut it and sealed it to the bottom of the lid with silicon. The tube went from the bottom of the bowl to just above the open end of the bottle.
Basically, the way it works is this: You pull the
bottle about half-way up or so. When you see bubbles start going thru the tube
into the water and up into the bottle, you light the bowl and hold your lighter
there. Keep slowly pulling it up until all the bubbling stops. Then unscrew
the lid and pull it out, tube and all. Take a deep breath, exhale, and put your
lips on the bottle while pushing it down. The hits are much easier to take this
way because all the smoke is filtered thru water, like a regular bong. I guarantee
that if you follow these directions, you WILL be stoned after 1 hit of scwhag.
And for no extra cost, how to make a couple of other types of pseudo bong...
1) Take a bottle, medium (1.5l to 3l) to large in
size.
2) Make a smallish hole near the bottom of the bottle, on the side. A burning
cigarette or spliff should work if you`ve got nothing else. About a cigarette
burn size hole is right.
3) Fill with water (stream or bath or whatever), and remove from water with
your finger over the hole. Put it upright on a waterproof/unimportant/easily
drained surface, finger still over the hole.
4) Put chillum in top, add ganj (may need a second person here)
5) Hold lighter flame on ganj, while letting water out by slowly easing pressure
of your finger on the hole, or removing your finger from the hole.
6) As the water pours out, the smoke pours in :) Regulate the speed at which
it "pulls" and make sure you burn all the ganj first time.
7) When the last of the water leaves, finger over the hole to keep the smoke
in.
8) Now either remove the chillum and inhale from the neck, or leave chillum
in place and inhale from the waterhole.
last but not least, we also have:
1) Choose a medium-ish bottle (the 750ml or 1.5l
are great), cut the base off.
2) Get a breadbag or similar plastic bag, and seat it inside the bottle, so
it kind of "lines" the bottle. You need the bag to extend out below slightly
further than the bottle.
3) Tape the bag securely to the bottle at the "lip" where you cut off the base,
making sure it doesn`t leak.
4) Suck on the bottle, `til the bag pulls up right to the top (not into the
neck, but just below), and put the chillum on top, with cannabis, natch.
5) Holding the bottle between your knees, burn the ganja with one hand while
pulling the bag down with the other. The bag should be pulled down as far as
it can go, and fill with lovely smoke. For this purpose, it might be worth attaching
a string to the centre of the bag, just below the neck when it`s "up" to allow
easier pulling.
6) Remove chillum, inhale (try to get it all in one :P)
This is when your bucket or whatever doesn`t burn all the cannabis up on the first pass. Having taken the bucket or whatever you replace thechillum nice`n`quick and finish burning. Usually they are gas-bags (i.e. very little smoke) but it is more efficient than letting it go to waste.
And now, the final instruction, provided at the insistence of my friend (occasionally known as the Mindflyer)...
With any one of these designs, you can "cloak" the
bottle itself in opaque material or paper or tape or whatever. Makes it harder
to see how well you are pulling, but good for mystery buckets. In a mystery
bucket, basically the recipient has no knowledge at all of how much/little smoke
there is - someone else burns it, and they don`t look. They keep taking mystery
buckets `til they want no more...this is usually after the first :-)
A chillum can be almost anything, but here are the easiest ways of making one (or two, or three :P)
1) The foil chillum. Get a milkbottle top of double folded sheet of aluminium foil and press into the neck of your bottle, so it bends down in the middle, and has a lip around the outside to hold it on. Puncture repeatedly with a pin or similar, lots of small holes is what you want. When you`ve perforated it, use it :) The only problem with these is they can get hot with the flame, and be bastards to remove especially when stoned...
2) The socket-set chillum. Take a part of a socket
set, check that it fits into a 2l bottle neck, and wind tape round the middle
to keep it from falling in. Push a gauze circle into it (aka a screen), and
burn the ganj on that.
Another type here is, if your socket is too big or too small then take the bottle
cap, cut a hole in the middle, and tape the chillum to the cap. Voila! One screw-on
chillum.
3) Uh...there are probably professional efforts - or you could use your bong
bowl. You get the idea...
3.4
How do I build a vaporizor? (thanks to Strange Meadow Lark for this,
nicked from www.lyceaum.com, yet apparently from adp before then. Weird). Look
on the internet using a search engine.
3.5 How do I build a nuclear bomb?
First take a large amount of plastic explosives.
Now get a hollow sphere of weapons-grade plutonium (Quik-E-Mart sells them cheap).
Then cover the sphere in the explosives and detonate them. You can do this by
applying a battery to the explosive.
For best results stand within 5-10 feet of the sphere at detonation. Cleanses
the gene-pool don`cha know.
4. Smoking questions
Unless you are the president of the USA, yes.
4.2 How long should I keep the smoke in my lungs?
A few seconds is all that`s needed technically. However I personally find that if you hold the smoke in for a while longer or take another draw on top I get a bit higher...probably just psychological. Try a "time-bomb" of a joint or bong if you want to see.
You`ll know when it happens.
Like above, you`ll know yourself.
4.5 Whoah! I`ve never been this high before, was my weed laced?
No, most likely it is not laced, since laced weed is extremely rare and went out, like polyester, with the 70's. Most likely you smoked too much potent weed, and you are high. Remember boys and girls, cannabis does happen to be a mind-altering drug, and while it may not be in the league of heroin or meth or hard liquor, it still can produce intense, mind-altering sensations that may be uncomfortable to many people. So, in conclusion, don't think your weed is laced just because you don't believe, for some reason, that you can't get that high off of the sacred herb.
If you want to lace your own weed do so, it`s rare that a dealer will (why spend extra money adding drugs to your bag that you`ll not pay for?). Remember that if you lace weed then you should tell anyone who you smoke it with - it is not cool at all to pull that kind of shit on someone.
4.6 When will I get the king of the world?
Sorry man, but the Titanic is dead and gone. (Thank
god!)
4.7 What are fun things to do while high? (the PhatCat guide to fun)
I personally like to listen to music while looking at posters up on my wall. Reading while high tends to provide an extra dimension to the text you are reading, like it is more real and in front of you. Writing down whatever comes to mind works well too. Ok, now that the intellectual stuff is out of the way, I love to watch T.V while stoned. Not only can you see behind the scenes but you see how fake things really are, or how real they are as presented by T.V. I watch T.V in two ways while high. One is just mindless drivel that lets my brain rest whilst I am entertained by cartoons. The other way is to look for who is really controlling things. For example, next time high watch a late night talk show like Leno or Conan. You'll be enlightened that you did. As far as sports go, I've found that bowling or billiards is the perfect accompaniment to some good ganj. Watching sports like football or basketball however is mainly an individual preference. It may be too much input for some to see how it is all just a hyped up game, or an epic battle. My favorite suggestion of things to do while high however is....smoke another bowl. : )
The munchies are basically a name for the hunger that sets in with a good high. You`ll find that you eat all the food in the house. Eating when high is great, the food tastes amazing, the smells from cooking are amazing, it`s generally fun. Do try to avoid walking into a sweet shop while in the munchies phase...you`ll end up spending all your money. Good things to eat when high are things like sweet cereal, fried foods, chocolate and candy, and of course hash brownies. Ice-cream is also a good pick. My personal favourite is the fried egg sandwich, but you`ll find that you too have a preferred munch food.
5. Medical Questions
5.1 The drugs-enforcement officer said pot was bad for you. Is this true?
No, of course it`s not true. But then, we *would* say that wouldn`t we? Lets look at:
5.2 Dispelling the marijuana myths (many thanks to Paul Hager for this)
MARIJUANA MYTHS
by Paul Hager
Founding Member, HCRC
1. Marijuana causes brain damage
The most celebrated study that claims to show brain damage is the rhesus monkey study of Dr. Robert Heath, done in the late 1970s. This study was reviewed by a distinguished panel of scientists sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. Their results were published under the title, Marijuana and Health in 1982. Heath's work was sharply criticized for its insufficient sample size (only four monkeys), its failure to control experimental bias, and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as "damaged". Actual studies of human populations of marijuana users have shown no evidence of brain damage. For example, two studies from 1977, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana. That same year, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially came out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. That's not the sort of thing you'd expect if the AMA thought marijuana damaged the brain.
2. Marijuana damages the reproductive system
This claim is based chiefly on the work of Dr. Gabriel Nahas, who experimented with tissue (cells) isolated in petri dishes, and the work of researchers who dosed animals with near-lethal amounts of cannabinoids (i.e., the intoxicating part of marijuana). Nahas' generalizations from his petri dishes to human beings have been rejected by the scientific community as being invalid. In the case of the animal experiments, the animals that survived their ordeal returned to normal within 30 days of the end of the experiment. Studies of actual human populations have failed to demonstrate that marijuana adversely affects the reproductive system.
3. Marijuana is a "gateway" drug -- it leads to hard drugs
This is one of the more persistent myths. A real world example of what happens when marijuana is readily available can be found in Holland. The Dutch partially legalized marijuana in the 1970s. Since then, hard drug use -- heroin and cocaine -- have DECLINED substantially. If marijuana really were a gateway drug, one would have expected use of hard drugs to have gone up, not down. This apparent "negative gateway" effect has also been observed in the United States. Studies done in the early 1970s showed a negative correlation between use of marijuana and use of alcohol. A 1993 Rand Corporation study that compared drug use in states that had decriminalized marijuana versus those that had not, found that where marijuana was more available -- the states that had decriminalized -- hard drug abuse as measured by emergency room episodes decreased. In short, what science and actual experience tell us is that marijuana tends to substitute for the much more dangerous hard drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.
4. Marijuana suppresses the immune system
Like the studies claiming to show damage to the reproductive system, this myth is based on studies where animals were given extremely high -- in many cases, near-lethal -- doses of cannabinoids. These results have never been duplicated in human beings.
5. Marijuana is much more dangerous than tobacco
Smoked marijuana contains about the same amount of carcinogens as does an equivalent amount of tobacco. It should be remembered, however, that a heavy tobacco smoker consumes much more tobacco than a heavy marijuana smoker consumes marijuana. This is because smoked tobacco, with a 90% addiction rate, is the most addictive of all drugs while marijuana is less addictive than caffeine. Two other factors are important. The first is that paraphernalia laws directed against marijuana users make it difficult to smoke safely. These laws make water pipes and bongs, which filter some of the carcinogens out of the smoke, illegal and, hence, unavailable. The second is that, if marijuana were legal, it would be more economical to have cannabis drinks like bhang (a traditional drink in the Middle East) or tea which are totally non-carcinogenic. This is in stark contrast with "smokeless" tobacco products like snuff which can cause cancer of the mouth and throat. When all of these facts are taken together, it can be clearly seen that the reverse is true: marijuana is much SAFER than tobacco.
6. Legal marijuana would cause carnage on the highways
Although marijuana, when used to intoxication, does impair performance in a manner similar to alcohol, actual studies of the effect of marijuana on the automobile accident rate suggest that it poses LESS of a hazard than alcohol. When a random sample of fatal accident victims was studied, it was initially found that marijuana was associated with RELATIVELY as many accidents as alcohol. In other words, the number of accident victims intoxicated on marijuana relative to the number of marijuana users in society gave a ratio similar to that for accident victims intoxicated on alcohol relative to the total number of alcohol users. However, a closer examination of the victims revealed that around 85% of the people intoxicated on marijuana WERE ALSO INTOXICATED ON ALCOHOL. For people only intoxicated on marijuana, the rate was much lower than for alcohol alone. This finding has been supported by other research using completely different methods. For example, an economic analysis of the effects of decriminalization on marijuana usage found that states that had reduced penalties for marijuana possession experienced a rise in marijuana use and a decline in alcohol use with the result that fatal highway accidents decreased. This would suggest that, far from causing "carnage", legal marijuana might actually save lives.
7. Marijuana "flattens" human brainwaves
This is an out-and-out lie perpetrated by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. A few years ago, they ran a TV ad that purported to show, first, a normal human brainwave, and second, a flat brainwave from a 14-year-old "on marijuana". When researchers called up the TV networks to complain about this commercial, the Partnership had to pull it from the air. It seems that the Partnership faked the flat "marijuana brainwave". In reality, marijuana has the effect of slightly INCREASING alpha wave activity. Alpha waves are associated with meditative and relaxed states which are, in turn, often associated with human creativity.
8. Marijuana is more potent today than in the past
This myth is the result of bad data. The researchers who made the claim of increased potency used as their baseline the THC content of marijuana seized by police in the early 1970s. Poor storage of this marijuana in un-air conditioned evidence rooms caused it to deteriorate and decline in potency before any chemical assay was performed. Contemporaneous, independent assays of unseized "street" marijuana from the early 1970s showed a potency equivalent to that of modern "street" marijuana. Actually, the most potent form of this drug that was generally available was sold legally in the 1920s and 1930s by the pharmaceutical company Smith-Klein under the name, "American Cannabis".
9. Marijuana impairs short-term memory
This is true but misleading. Any impairment of short-term memory disappears when one is no longer under the influence of marijuana. Often, the short-term memory effect is paired with a reference to Dr. Heath's poor rhesus monkeys to imply that the condition is permanent.
10. Marijuana lingers in the body like DDT
This is also true but misleading. Cannabinoids are fat soluble as are innumerable nutrients and, yes, some poisons like DDT. For example, the essential nutrient, Vitamin A, is fat soluble but one never hears people who favor marijuana prohibition making this comparison.
11. There are over a thousand chemicals in marijuana smoke
Again, true but misleading. The 31 August 1990 issue of the magazine Science notes that of the over 800 volatile chemicals present in roasted COFFEE, only 21have actually been tested on animals and 16 of these cause cancer in rodents. Yet, coffee remains legal and is generally considered fairly safe.
12. No one has ever died of a marijuana overdose
This is true. It was put in to see if you are paying
attention. Animal tests have revealed that extremely high doses of cannabinoids
are needed to have lethal effect. This has led scientists to conclude that the
ratio of the amount of cannabinoids necessary to get a person intoxicated (i.e.,
stoned) relative to the amount necessary to kill them is 1 to 40,000. In other
words, to overdose, you would have to consume 40,000 times as much marijuana
as you needed to get stoned. In contrast, the ratio for alcohol varies between
1 to 4 and 1 to 10. It is easy to see how upwards of 5000 people die from alcohol
overdoses every year and no one EVER dies of marijuana overdoses.
Marijuana is very effective as a pain reliever and as an appetite stimulant (see 4.8, the munchies). Many people use it to deaden pain from illnesses and physical injuries, to suppress nausea from chemotherapy, and to help with many other medical complaints. There is a move afoot in several countries to legalise marijuana for use in situations like this and allow it to be prescribed by doctors. In the United States voters have voted overwhelmingly for medical marijuana in several states, California being a prime example. However there is the interesting situation of it being legal in state law but illegal in federal law...and also many cops just don`t care and ignore the new legislation. However this movement has allowed "Medical Cannabis Clubs" to get set up, and they are doing quite well in several places.
5.4 You`re all using medical marijuana as a ploy to get full legalisation!
Well, most people who shout for medical legalisation also believe in legalising recreational cannabis use too. I personally look at it the other way round though - I think that we should legalise it as a recreational drug and if we can use it recreationally then there is no reason to deny it to medical patients. However, it may well not turn out that way, in which case I`d want the people who need it more than I do to have full access to it even if I don`t.
There is also the argument that once medical marijuana
is legal then more tests can be performed on it to see whether it really is
safe for full legalisation. I firmly believe that these tests will show that
marijuana is perfectly fine for use as a recreational drug, so I`m confident.
Are the prohibitionists as confident that cannabis will be discreditted in such
a situation?
6. Growing
questions (see also alt.drugs.pot.cultivation)
Go to: http://users.lycaeum.org/~npkaye/newbie.html.
Hey, we just smoke it, we don`t grow it :-)
7. Legal Questions
7.1 What happens if I get caught with some marijuana for personal use?
Well, there`s an english answer and an American answer.
The English answer is that you will 99% of the time get a caution, and the same
will happen for the 2nd time and possibly even the 3rd time. After that, fines
or smallish jail terms.
The American answer is: (answer here) and confiscation of driving licence for
driving stoned.
Bear in mind that if the amount is more than about 1/2 an ounce to a full ounce then you may get done for dealing, which carries much worse penalties. Especially if it`s all in little wrapped sections.
If you have information about the possession laws in your part of the world, email them to us (address at the end of the FAQ) and we`ll include them.
7.2 What happens if I get caught with paraphernalia?
US: Class C Misdemeanor: usually a $500 fine and
probation.
UK: A caution...at a guess...don`t test this though.
7.3 What about my plants being found?
This is a *bad thing* (TM). At the very least you`ll lose all your plants. At worst you`ll also lose the house, your job, and get jailed for growing with intent to distribute.
US: in the US approximately 60 35cm plants will get you prosecuted for Manufacturing a Controlled Substance with Intent to Sell or Deliver. A conviction can get you up to 5 years in a very bad US Prison. One person caught as such had to spend $10,000 in legal and other costs to avoid prison and a felony conviction.
More precise legal answers are again welcome. We`ll evolve this FAQ as we recieve mail about it :)
7.4 Can I smuggle pot into the country?
The precise penalty depends on the country, but it`s definately not advisable. Many customs have drug-sniffing dogs, and these are *very* hard to beat. Your chances of success are even worse if you are coming from a country considered a "drugs blackspot" like Jamaica or Holland.
7.5 Can I send pot in the mail?
It depends whether you want it to arrive hand-delivered
by the police. OK, if you must, BE CAREFUL!
Don`t panic, visit http://www.csun.edu/~hbcsc096/dt/htmfaq/contents.htm and check them out...
8. Even more questions
8.1 Why did you make this FAQ?
Because. Go figure.
Actually we made it because some of the people on the group (not me I hasten to add - Aidan) were getting annoyed by repeated questions like "what does 4:20 mean" and "can I send pot through the mail?". So we decided to make the uber-resource for adp and general pot information.
Voila! You`re reading it now :)
All the people who got their name listed on top of
the FAQ, plus many many others. Thanks to all in alt.drugs.pot!
The compilation and all the fancy stuff were made by Aidan Ryder and Dead man
walking.
8.3 What does FAQ mean, anyway?
Frequently Asked Questions. Doh.
10$. (That`s about £6.08, or 8.80 Euro)
9. Facts about this FAQ
9.1 Some numbers about this FAQ
ummm....420?
0.0.1 First raw format made by Dead man walking.
0.0.2 Added Funny things to do while high.
0.0.3 Added How do I find a dealer in my area?
0.0.4 Added How to make a hash and baccy joint.
0.0.5 Added some small fun stuff.
0.0.6 Aidan adds some bits (hash, bong, 420, misc)
0.0.7 Aidan adds medical, legal and munchies sections, plus a few minor edits,
updates terminology.
0.0.8 Aidan makes the html version, muchos edits, US rolling.
0.0.9 First final version...links added, cool shit added
1.0.0 This is it! Minor edits, colour changes, links moved
4.2.0 OK, I`m bored of updating this supid title. 420 is a good number, so 420
the version is, and 420 it will stay!
9.3 What will come in the future
Probably flying cars, and cities formed from glistening
spires connected by monorails. Or maybe not.
Who knows. Or cares? Smoke another one while you wait...
9.4 Where can I get the newest version of this FAQ?
9.5 I'm a jack ass... Can I send you to prison for this?
No, fuck off and go back to masturbating with a flag and a bible.
Post any feedback to adpfaq@gmx.net