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Originally Posted by EVOLghost
HOw is water brought into your naturalistic formula.
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Either through the bong or a chalice, though in truth, there is water in your mouth/throat/lungs so the smoke still mixes. Smoking was considered a mystical experience in the pre-Columbian Americas, and before the 16th century, nobody in the old world ever smoked ANYTHING. Smoking is mystical because the act combines all four forces, through burning (fire), water filtration (water), inhalation (breath/wind), and earth (the plant material as well as clay/wood/glass from the toking utensil)..
Rastafari use the chalice, its classic, but again, even your very breath contains high volumes of water content, so water is always there.
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
It's a different high. a lot of the intiial "buzz' that smoking weed gives when lit in traditional ways (pipe, bong, rolled) is because of aphasia, or the lack of oxygen in your lungs while you smoke weed.
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Actually the opposite is totally true. Within 35 seconds the effect of THC on the lungs is immediate bronchial dilation. This is why ingesting THC through edibles is a treatment for asthma and emphysema. Within seven minutes there is almost a two-fold increase in oxygen absorption into the blood stream, and this is a large part of the over-all "high". Its also why ingesting pure oxygen for 10-20 minutes induces a comparible euphoria. The strong "body high" is often just simple dehydration by the way.
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Vape, if done right (not too hot) releases water vapor, and the cannabinoids as vapor, not as smoke. smoke is particulate.
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Vapor and smoke, molecularly speaking, are the same thing. Again, the quetion is of content. THC and a hundred other chemicals from within the plant sublimate and then condense when cooled, forming tars/resins in the lungs and throat. Its unavoidable, indeeds, its how you ingest THC in the first place!!
The vapor cools almost instantly in the lungs and condenses to a solid.
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I find after 3-4 drags off the SSV vape I am cool for several hours, and clear headed, and not sleepy at all.
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Interestingly, some folks have asserted that vaporizing is more potent, but there isn't any math to support this, because simply put, if a solid THC boils at 476 degrees, then when you burn it at 700-1200 degrees you inherently vaporize all of the THC within the smoke content. Perhaps some people aren't as skilled at inhaling the rougher smoke and can better handle the cooler and non-sooty "vapors" but when you "smoke" its the same thing as when you "vape" THC and the other 11 psychoactive cannabinoids speaking..
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