Arbitrary omission of "See also" reference to One-hitter (smoking)

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This is one of over a half dozen deletions of "See also" references to the One-hitter (smoking) article from various other articles, as if intending to isolate that article from readers and steer them toward joint-smoking instead.  Note the apparently taunting editing statement.  

The same editor has repeatedly deleted from cannabis articles, including this one, (a) photos of small-dosage inhalant utensils which, properly operated, mostly vaporize rather than burn cannabinoids as compared with combustion-based "joint" smoking; (b) the Australian Department of Health warning against mixing with tobacco which can lead to "unintended nicotine addiction" (this "traditional" mixture is considered a prevalent meaning of the word "joint" in Europe and some other places, and children investigating cannabis get drawn into a life-shortening habit that has nothing to do with cannabis); (c) any references to articles on wikiHow.com which accurately describe how to make one's own dosage moderation utensils; (d) any possible text describing safer, more economical procedures of cannabis consumption than hot burning cigarette papers.  (Not surprisingly the same editor, quoted above, has prosecuted this writer on Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents for attempting to introduce such information.)

Admittedly there is a shortage of really clear, descriptive photos of one-hitter utensils available from WikiCommons, and the ones used until now, here and on articles like Cannabis smoking and One-hitter (smoking), were not ideal.  Editors are urged to find and supply illustrations that show (a) a really small crater 5.5 mm is best; (b) a long flexible drawtube so users can see what they are doing during the lighting process and get more vaporization, less combustion.

The promise inherent in the title "Cannabis consumption" includes a duty to inform Wikipedia readers of utensils which (a) are cheaper in initial cost than a plug-in electric vaporizer, though the latter is best; (b) are safer to use and less wasteful of extremely expensive herbal material  than cigarette paper; (c) can be made locally "in your garage" rather than purchased from monopoly corporations like Tops and Bugler; (d) can be used without adding tobacco ("Toke pure"), thus avoiding risk of "unintended nicotine addiction".