A question about weed consumption (serious)

[Homeless Nutter]

I don't know what kind of ditchweed the guys overseas are making hash from, or what process is used to make it, but over here we have no-shit-lab-tested hash oil that is 60-90% THC. [...]

We don't have weed-stores in most of Europe. Most hashish is cheap shit, of unknown origin laced with horse-tranquilizers and such.
That's one of the problems with prohibition - no quality control.

[CapnAwesome]

Weigh in on the weed vs hash potency. Hash potency depends on the weed potency it's made from. I can go pick Neb ditch weed and make hash but I'll never get high.

^^^ This ^^^

I don't know what kind of ditchweed the guys overseas are making hash from, or what process is used to make it, but over here we have no-shit-lab-tested hash oil that is 60-90% THC.  I've been smoking weed for going on four decades and the first time I smoked "dabs" (a.k.a BHO or butane hash oil [butane is used as a solvent to extract the THC]), two big hits and I was way more stoned that had ever been in my life, and that's saying something.  Bedtime for me.  By way of comparison, the strongest weed I've ever smoked was 33% THC (strongest that was tested for potency, that is - but subjective experience says that it was indeed the strongest).

There's a handful of weed stores around my home (recreational weed is legal and regulated here), and for the most part, most of the sellers don't mess with much sub-20% - and 20% THC is very good.  There's one seller downtown who seems to be targeting the lower end market and that store stocks stuff as low as 10% THC.  It's cheap, but I don't see any reason to buy it unless I was pretty broke.  I don't like to cough, and the cheap shit has to be inhaled so deeply and held so long to get high it's just not worth it to me.

Outside of the US and Canada, it's all ditch weed. USA IS NUMBER ONE!! (When it comes to good weed.)

[brewer]

I don't know what kind of ditchweed the guys overseas are making hash from, or what process is used to make it, but over here we have no-shit-lab-tested hash oil that is 60-90% THC.  I've been smoking weed for going on four decades and the first time I smoked "dabs" (a.k.a BHO or butane hash oil [butane is used as a solvent to extract the THC]), two big hits and I was way more stoned that had ever been in my life, and that's saying something.  Bedtime for me.  By way of comparison, the strongest weed I've ever smoked was 33% THC (strongest that was tested for potency, that is - but subjective experience says that it was indeed the strongest).

There's a handful of weed stores around my home (recreational weed is legal and regulated here), and for the most part, most of the sellers don't mess with much sub-20% - and 20% THC is very good.  There's one seller downtown who seems to be targeting the lower end market and that store stocks stuff as low as 10% THC.  It's cheap, but I don't see any reason to buy it unless I was pretty broke.  I don't like to cough, and the cheap shit has to be inhaled so deeply and held so long to get high it's just not worth it to me.

I'm, unfortunately, old school. The best pot we got your hands on was maybe 7% tops. That's why we liked hash better, less tokes to the high. Never had any oil, only blocks/chunks. Devised some interesting smokers for it. Cheapest one was a Pringles can. Best was a separation flask/condenser tube from the chem lab. Smooooooth!

Got some new pot last summer. Two hits and I could do nothing but sit on the couch and drool. Was told it was 23%. Afraid those days have passed me by.

[paulpablo]

         Another point I forgot to say that your friends are right it's essential to smoke hash with some tobacco.

I know this from experience of trying to put too much hash into one joint and it was impossible to smoke. I don't mean it wasn't to my taste so I found it impossible to smoke, I mean you would have to suck on the joint with an industrial vacuum cleaner to get any smoke out of it, it just gets packed too tight and doesn't burn like weed leaves burn.

Another thing that makes hash crap is that during the processing of hash some people are lazy and just throw entire plastic bags of weed into whatever process it is that makes it, meaning that there's plastic sheets in with the weed that you smoke, again this is something I've witnessed from experience, finding little bits of plastic in my hash.

[Jackalope]

         Another point I forgot to say that your friends are right it's essential to smoke hash with some tobacco.

I know this from experience of trying to put too much hash into one joint and it was impossible to smoke.

Another thing that makes hash crap is that during the processing of hash some people are lazy and just throw entire plastic bags of weed into whatever process it is that makes it, meaning that there's plastic sheets in with the weed that you smoke, again this is something I've witnessed from experience, finding little bits of plastic in my hash.

You eurodudes have some very strange notions about weed.

[brewer]

         Another point I forgot to say that your friends are right it's essential to smoke hash with some tobacco.

I know this from experience of trying to put too much hash into one joint and it was impossible to smoke.  I don't mean it wasn't to my taste so I found it impossible to smoke, I mean you would have to suck on the joint with an industrial vacuum cleaner to get any smoke out of it, it just gets packed too tight and doesn't burn like weed leaves burn.

Another thing that makes hash crap is that during the processing of hash some people are lazy and just throw entire plastic bags of weed into whatever process it is that makes it, meaning that there's plastic sheets in with the weed that you smoke, again this is something I've witnessed from experience, finding little bits of plastic in my hash.

You don't smoke hash in joints. Stick the chunk on a pin, light it, inhale. If you put the pin through something to make it stand upright (i.e. matchbook) you can cover the pin with a glass, let the smoke accumulate, lift one edge of the glass and inhale. Take it a step further, make a smoke chamber with two carburetors, one to suck the smoke out, one to let the air in.

I suggest that you stop smoking crap hash.

[Faith No More]

It must be true. They do everything differently across the pond.Things like putting tobacco in hash or weed would be considered sacrilege over here. We treat weed with reverence over here.

At least we're good at something! USA! #1!

[paulpablo]

         Another point I forgot to say that your friends are right it's essential to smoke hash with some tobacco.

I know this from experience of trying to put too much hash into one joint and it was impossible to smoke.  I don't mean it wasn't to my taste so I found it impossible to smoke, I mean you would have to suck on the joint with an industrial vacuum cleaner to get any smoke out of it, it just gets packed too tight and doesn't burn like weed leaves burn.

Another thing that makes hash crap is that during the processing of hash some people are lazy and just throw entire plastic bags of weed into whatever process it is that makes it, meaning that there's plastic sheets in with the weed that you smoke, again this is something I've witnessed from experience, finding little bits of plastic in my hash.

You don't smoke hash in joints. Stick the chunk on a pin, light it, inhale. If you put the pin through something to make it stand upright (i.e. matchbook) you can cover the pin with a glass, let the smoke accumulate, lift one edge of the glass and inhale. Take it a step further, make a smoke chamber with two carburetors, one to suck the smoke out, one to let the air in.

I suggest that you stop smoking crap hash.

I don't smoke weed at all I think it's a huge waste of time, energy and money.  But when I was a student and I thought I had time energy and money to burn I can guarantee people did smoke hash in joints and most likely still do now.

Also hash where I come from, Manchester England, is called sputnik or sput for short.  When a person has brown crumbs all over his fingers from crumbling in the hash it's called sput fingers.

Personally if I was in the mood to get stoned again, which I never really am, I'd just eat weed instead of smoking it.

[Dystopia]

Like someone people said, weed and hash in Europe are probably worse. I have no intention of consuming weed in the near future unless I suddenly decide to try it out as a 21 years old young man - But I was curious. Bongs and pipes are more usual now, but rolling papers are the standard cheapest way to go.

[Reforged]

Tobacco burns more easily. Keeps it alight, also means you can fill a spliff up without using up everything.