From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: RFD: Recipe FAQ
Keywords: d{
Date: 24 Jul 92 08:43:08 GMT
Organization: 'Operation: Mindcrime'

gaspar@inf.ethz.ch (gaspo) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.182804.1@vax.sonoma.edu> feinstei@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>>I was wondering if there is any interest in a FAQ containing recipes 
>>appropriate for this group... Any comments?
>
>I don't know if a seperate FAQ is neccessary, but perhaps a seperate
>section on the "mj consumption FAQ".
>
>If somebody is willing to compile,...
>
>well, shit.  I'll compile recipes if anybody has any.  I have my own
>bronwie recp, and a handfull of non-written ones, but can always use
>more.
>
>--gaspo.

Here comes everything in one big fucking post.  The files FAQ-MJ-Consumption,
marijuana-consuption, marijuana-hash and marijuana-howto.

I've got some other brownie recipies and shit lying around which will go
into the FTP site once I have some time...

From:  rml3362@venus.tamu.edu 

I am a popular commodity amoung some people I know, I am the only one
who knows how to roll a joint. Now this is because I tend to be older
than most of the people who smoke dope around me and have a bit more
intense life lesson than others.

I like rolling joints. It is a very viscereal pleasure, you get to
play with the nifty green stuff and it gives your hands something to
do. This is especially nice if it is good if you don't wanna get
really stoned but just catch a nice buzz and instead of keeping your
hands busy smoking you keep 'em busy rolling.

I like that green stuff. It's cool, kinda like oregano or some other green 
bulk spice but you know it aint. It has the smell, strange how
so many people don't groove to it, ahh well learnd response, like
appreciating good scotch. It reminds me of harvest day, right after
the fruit has been reaped and the oils and esthers fill the air. Very
good green homey feel to it. Then you get into carding the stuff to
take out the seeds and stems and to break it down so it will roll
effectively. It has to feel right, a bit drier than the best feel,
where it is so sticky with resin that all you can do is load it into
a bowl and do bong hits until your brain goes numb. 

You gotta decide how fine you are gonna sift the shake. I know some
who remove everything until nothing is left but a fine red dust. I
don't like that, it takes too long, and casues too many volatiles to
be released as you card it, and makes really lousey joints that pack
too tightly and don't draw worth shit. We all roll joints to match our
personality, my joins tend to have stuff in them that shouldn't be
there, leave things on the tray that SHOULD be, double paper walled,
kinda fat in the middle, nice where it meats the mouth, and fulla
garbage that gets burnt. 

Once you got the grass ready you them have to get you papers in order.
The way I learned to make a joint was to make a boat out of the paper.
Take the paper in you hand so that the gummed side is up and the
crease is away from you, the short sides are called edges and the long
sides are called sides. You fold the end towards the side, each in turn. 
First you take the left edge and you fold it about the top corner of
that edge, bringing the lower corner up to where it meets the top side
and the edge is perfectly in line with the side. Then you do the same
thing about the bottom corner, and then you do it for each of the
other corners on the other side. You have to make sure all the creases
are away from you, then, from where the two bisectors meet on out to
the edge you fold agains the crease, you fold in the same place but in
the other direction of the original crease

You do that with each edge and you get a little paper boat into which
you can shift your sift. After having thoughly raked the herb you wind
up with a little mound of grass, how big depends on how strong the
grass is, how big the papers are, and how stoned you wanna get. I
usually use a bit more than would fill a large bowl. You pick the
gras up between you fingers and dust it into the paper boat. Try to
get it even but don't worry about it you can fix it. Towards the
bottom of the mound you run into stuff too fine pick up with your
fingers, I consider it a point of grace to card once, and once only,
it back into a smalled mound and then try to get at least one good
pinch or two from it and let the rest of the shit go back into the
baggie until one is scaping for anything green that burns. As you load
the paper you are gonna spill dust, just let it go. Make sure you load over 
the tray and you will either get it with the cleanup card or smoke it
some other time.

Now you take your boat full of dope and begin leveling it. Stir it
about with your finger to balance as much as possible and then you
will begin rolling it. Make sure the gummed side is away from you if
there is one. You roll it to settle the grass and get it
even, and ya try to get it to spread out towards the edges. This is
where people who use doller bills use them, I always thought it was
too much hassle to fuck with. Once you have it spread to suit your
desires you then have to roll the paper up into a joint. This is the
tricky part. I always try to finish rolling it so that it is very near
the ungummed edge and then to just fold that over and roll it up. Try
to get it a bit tighter than you wanna some cause it will looesen as you
roll it up. Just before your finished you have to lick the gum. The
best I ever saw anyone do that was this little oriental girl I knew
who had the most pointed tounge that was always moist. She had absolute
control over her tounge, she could make it do things that would give
you an orgasm just watching the movements. I being who I am tend to
either slobber a bit too much or not get enough on there, it could be
better but it works. You finish rolling it up and and then you gotta
close the sides.

The best way I have found to close the sides is to just roll one end
and figure what gets caught gets caught and turn it so the other end
is upright and then use a small poker to pull out things which stick
out and push in the stuff that needs to go inside. Roll the ends
counter to each other and lick to close. I got friends that stick half
the damned joint in thier mouths, and others who just touch it to
thier tounge. I am undecided, the wetter it gets the better the joint
is but it just grates my aesthetics. Let it dry and you gotta joint. I
tend to double wrap mine, by rolling that joint in annother, it
strengths that fragine middle section and generally keeps a tight nice
looking joint. I also tend to tear off that messy end, the one that
caught what got caught, to suck on, and use the flashy paper tail to
light it.

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From:  mgr@anhep2.hep.anl.gov

	Last week I celebrated my promotion (like getting tenure at U of
Chicago).  After giving every one a "Hemp Saftey Course" including the
video of "Hemp for Victory" I brought out a batch of brownies.  The "pro's"
in the group said they tasted like "liquid hash".  Most people said they
felt good till 4pm the next day.  So I thought I'd share the recipe with
the net:
	Start with Hershey's Premium Baking Bar Unsweetened Chocolate.
On the back is a recipe for brownies which includes 1 cup butter, 4 squares
of chocolate, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup of flour, and vanilla extract.
Start with dry hemp leaves and grind them in a coffee grinder to a fine 
powder.  Put in a measuring cup until ~75 ml of "green flour" is made.
Fill to the 1 cup mark (250 ml) with regular flour.  Proceed with recipe
on box: Heat oven to 350 F, Grease 13x9x2 (inch) pan.  Heat butter and
chocolate and stir with wooden spoon until smooth.  Stir in sugar.  Add
eggs one at a time.  Add vanilla extract and stir in flour mixture.
Add nuts if desired (a very nice touch I think) and bake for 40 minutes.
It seemed to take 10 minutes longer than the box suggested (30 minutes)
to be completely baked through.  Makes 3 dozen brownies.  Take 2 and wait
an hour.  Take 4 and cruise for 12 hours.  Enjoy!

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From: kudwarf@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 13 Sep 91 10:37:37 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.drugs

In the interests of making marihuana use a little bit safer, to prove that 
use does not automatically equate to lung cancer, here are two use methods 
that bear attention:
 
The Dual-Chambered, Hot-Cold Bong

[it was noted in a followup that a hot-hot bong would supposedly be better
 because the temperature is not the key, its the water vapor.  Experiment
 and figure out for yourself what works better  -- Lamont]
 
Basic Design (can be modified to fit different styles):  
 
               Suck In
               Here
             |         |             +---------+
             |         |             |         |
             |         |             |         |
             |         |             |         |
  Carb Hole ==         |             |  /      |
             |         |              /  /     |
        +--+ |---------| +--+       /  /       |   \Bowl /
        |  | |  Water  | |  |     /  / --------|    \   /
        |  | |         | |  |   /  / |         |    /  /
        |  | |         | |  | /  /   |  Water  |  /  /
        |  | |         | |  /  /     |         |/  /
        |  | |         |  /  /       |        /  /
        |  | |          /  /         |      /  / 
        |  | |        /  /  |        |       / |
        |  | |      /  / |  |        |         |
        |  | |       / | |  |        |         |
        |  | |         | |  |        +---------+
        |  | |         | |  |         | | | | | 
        |  | +---------+ |  |       +-----------+
        |  |             |  |       | Hot Plate |
        |  |             |  |       +-----------+
        |  +-------------+  |
        |   Cooling Coils   |
        +-------------------+
 
Basically, the principle goes like this: Most of the carcinogens in 
marihuana smoke are water-soluble.  THC is not.  Therefore, the bong was 
invented to remove carcinogens and to cool the smoke.  However, warm to hot 
water does tend to remove more carcinogens than does cold water, so using 
hot water would seem to make the smoke much safer to breathe (and still 
avoid lung cancer), except that the point of cooling the smoke is lost.
 
Thus, the Dual-Chambered Bong was designed to remove the most carcinogens 
as well as cool the smoke for inhalation.  Basically, the first, hot 
chamber is filled to the brim with water, and beneath it is placed some 
form of heating unit (or inside it, or whatever can be done to keep it hot).
Next, a short distance away, the second, cold chamber is placed with some 
way of keeping the area the smoke passes through really cold (such as: cold 
water with icepacks around the chamber; ice packed around a coiled tube; 
liquid nitrogen or dry ice poured/piled around the coiled tube; cold water 
in the chamber with cold water being pumped around the outside through a 
tube coiled around the chamber; etc.) to cool the smoke.  Then you keep the 
marihuana in the bowl lit by your favorite method, and treat it like an 
ordinary bong.  Since this apparatus is fairly complex, it is suggested 
that you disguise or have disguised the D-C Bong as some form of dualistic 
statuary (such as a couple kissing, where the point at which their lips 
meet is the link between the two chambers) to prevent police busts from 
wasting your investment on materials and design.
-----
For the baker or cook with less of a turn for smoking marihuana, the 
following is a recipe for marihuana brownies suggested by Timothy Leary.
 
Brownie Recipe
 
        Start with Hershey's Premium Baking Bar Unsweetened Chocolate.
On the back is a recipe for brownies which includes 1 cup butter, 4 squares
of chocolate, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 cup of flour, and vanilla extract.
Start with dry hemp leaves and grind them in a coffee grinder to a fine 
powder.  Put in a measuring cup until approximately 1/3 cup (~75 ml) of 
"green flour" is made.  Fill to the 1 cup mark (250 ml) with regular flour.
Proceed with recipe on box: Heat oven to 350 F, Grease 13x9x2 (inch) pan.
Heat butter and chocolate and stir with wooden spoon until smooth.  Stir 
in sugar.  Add eggs one at a time.  Add vanilla extract and stir in flour
mixture.  Add nuts if desired (a very nice touch I think) and bake for 40
minutes.  It seemed to take 10 minutes longer than the box suggested (30
minutes) to be completely baked through.  Makes 3 dozen brownies.  Take 2
and wait an hour.  Take 4 and cruise for 12 hours.  Enjoy!

From:  harmon@Metaphor.COM

> what is 'hash oil'? 

Its a thick black oil made from hash.  The hash is heated and pressed to 
release the oil.  (Same process used to make hash from marijuana, but carried
to an extreme.)  Its almost like a tar; very sticky, very thick.

> how is it used?

I've never seen it in the US, but When I lived in England, some 10 years ago,
it was occasionally available.  It came in two forms; sometimes it would be
in a little plastic vial.  Other times it would come in a piece of aluminum
foil.  From what I recall, the point was not to burn it, as that would burn
off the active ingredients; but you wanted to inhale the vapor from it.

The usual procedure was to get some heat resistant tube; the favorite was a
the clear plastic tube that is the body of a bic disposable pen.  Pull out the
end cap, and pull out the ink/ballpoint thingy.  Result: a clear plastic tube.
Then, smear a small amount of the oil on a piece of aluminum foil.  Hold the
foil with pliers.  With the oil on top, heat from beneath with a lighter.
Hold the end of the tube above the patch of oil.  As you begin to apply heat,
suck like hell.  The pliers (or something) are necessary because foil is
an excellent conductor of heat, and you can burn yourself.  It may take
several heatings to use up all the oil from a smear.  (You'll note this takes
three hands!)

For a nicer piece of equipment, take an old tablespoon.  Bend the handle so
that the handle bends away from the bowl, and then back so that it is pointing
up away from the bowl.  Attach same pen tube to the handle so that it points
down into the bowl of the spoon.  Smear oil into bowl of spoon, and heat
spoon from bottom. (This only takes two hands.)

Another technique, if you roll your own cigarettes, is to smear a streak of
oil on a cigarette paper, and then roll a cigarette with this paper.

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From:  harmon@Metaphor.COM

I grew up in England, and when I was in high school (pun intended? ;-) there,
all we could ever get was hash.  For some peculiar reason, no one ever thought
to use pipes.  So we had to roll cigarettes with roll-your-own tobacco, and
put crumbs of hash in them.  Sometimes, to avoid the tobacco, we'd use
disassembled clove cigarettes, or herbs like tarragon.

If you've never used hash, (which I've never seen in the US,) it comes as a
brown-green brick, which is VERY hard.  You warm a corner over a lighter to
soften it, and break crumbs off of it.  You can't roll j's with this stuff; its
solid.  (Sometimes, good stuff is very dark in color, even black; this is
usually very soft, and if squeezed, drops of hash oil may sweat out.)

I don't seem to recall it being very common to find head shops where you could
buy smoking equipment proper, but tobacco and rolling papers were very common.
I don't think equipment was common, because I do remember a couple of pieces
of homemade equipment; one friend of mine made a bong in his ceramics class.  I
made one with a thistle tube, cork, glass tubing, and erlenmeyer flask from
a chemistry set of mine.

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From:  cavasin@convex.com

>> what is 'hash oil'?
>Its a thick black oil made from hash.  The hash is heated and pressed to 
>release the oil.  (Same process used to make hash from marijuana, but carried
>to an extreme.)  Its almost like a tar; very sticky, very thick.

No, make that very, Very, VERY sticky.  Sticks to everything.  stays under
your fingernails for weeks after you've tried everything imaginable to get
it out (and you try everything imaginable because the milligram or so that's
stuck there is worth some money).  It ruins clothes; the only thing that
will take it off your skin or countertops is denatured alcohol or a similar
solvent.  The stickiest shit I have ever seen.

>> how is it [hash oil] used?

It turns up at dead shows occasionally.  A "friend" had some that came from
jamaica, which is where he assumes it was made.

"friend" says the smoke is better than the vapor.

>The usual procedure was to get some heat resistant tube; the favorite was a
>the clear plastic tube that is the body of a bic disposable pen.  Pull out the
>end cap, and pull out the ink/ballpoint thingy.  Result: a clear plastic tube.
>Then, smear a small amount of the oil on a piece of aluminum foil.  Hold the
>foil with pliers.  With the oil on top, heat from beneath with a lighter.
>Hold the end of the tube above the patch of oil.  As you begin to apply heat,
>suck like hell.  The pliers (or something) are necessary because foil is
>an excellent conductor of heat, and you can burn yourself.  It may take
>several heatings to use up all the oil from a smear.  (You'll note this takes
>three hands!)

Don't use a ballpoint pen unless you like to waste money (oil, same
difference).  This stuff costs a fortune--"friend" says $35/gram when you can
get it.  It's really not worth it at that price.  Anyway, as far as heating it
vs. warming it, "friend" says he's tried it both ways.  Both ways it's real,
real hard on your throat (worse than the harshest weed--almost as bad as that
"black morrocan" lettuce O shit).  It's a little harsher if you do the vapor
thing.  "friend" says seems to be more effective smoked, plus you waste less.

best vapor method:  put an old knife on a stove burner ("friend" used an
electric stove; use a gas job at your own risk).  let it get nice and hot (red
hot isn't too hot, but of course you don't wanna deform the knife...).  Get a
paper towell tube or similar-size tube.  GATHER EVERYONE AROUND CLOSE.  use a
real thin screwdriver or similar instrument to get a little dab of oil, stand
ready with the tube, press the screwdriver against the hot blade and suck.
don't take too much; it's got incredible expando properties.  The stuff will
smoke uncontrollably till it's gone, so make sure everyone gets in their suck
without letting too much go to waste (it's good if everyone has their own
tube). 

The aluminum foil method is okay, but "friend" thinks it's a little more
wasteful.  Eventually ya gotta throw that foil out.

"friend" says best way to do it is to roll it with some herb (tobacco kills).
Another good way to smoke it (according to friend) is to line a screened bowl
with rolling paper or leaf and put a drop in there.

However you do it, take SMALL hits.  the shit is lethal on your lungs.

Actually, now that friend thinks about it, the best way to do it is to put
about 10 grams in a 13x7" brownie pan with your favorite brownie recipe.  cut
into ~1.25" squares.  Eat one and have a wonderful night (sex is highly
recommended).  Eat two and become part of your favorite couch for 5 hours or
so.  Eat 5 or 6 and find out what heroin's like without having to mess with
needles. 

Of course $350 is a hell of an expensive pan of brownies.

>I always found that hash oil was much stonier than hash. (Whatever that
>means.....)  It gave me more of that feeling in my eyes of being in a smoky
>room when I was stoned on plain hash or mj leaves.

friend likes good hash better.  Easier to smoke, tastes better.  Right about
the buzz tho.  VERY intensly relaxing, almost paralyzing.

>Of course, this was all long ago, and I don't do that sort of thing anymore....

Of course, neither does friend.
:^)

A word of advice (from friend):  BE CAREFUL when buying this shit.  It's real,
real easy to get ripped off, and doling out $35 for a gram of roofing tar is
quite a bummer.

Is hash oil mentioned in a faq?  I'm too lazy to look.  If it's not it should
be. 

Oh, friend tells me to add one more thing: heating up the vial will make the
stuff a lot easier to deal with (liquifies it).  Also makes it more prone to
spillage, so take great care when handling it in its liquid form.  You can
heat the vial with a lighter or put it on an electric stove burner.

God, my friend is such a drug-craving unAmerican lowlife.:^)

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From: kph@cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert)
Date: 13 Sep 91 03:22:48 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: How to purify THC from leaves?

This comes from a friend of mine that doesn't have net access, so I won't be able to supply further details...

1. Run all leaf through a wire mesh sifter (such as a kitchen flour sifter)
2. Completely soak the leaf with ethyl or isopropyl alcohol for about 4 or 5 days.
3. Strain resultant product through silk (used for silk-screening)
4. Evaporate remainder by applying very low heat from kitchen stove
   Caution: be very careful - the product is *quite* flammable
5. After evaporating, there will be a remaining "goo". This is the hash oil.

[It was noted in a followup that ispropyl alcohol is generally sold denatured,
 so that its vile to drink.  The chemicals which denature it, however,
 *should* get evaporated by step 4, and further combusted when you smoke it.  
 Therefore the effect of these chemicals *should* be minimal, but since I
 don't have the foggiest idea of what the chemicals actually are, use at your
 own risk -- Lamont]

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From: goddard@cat55.cs.wisc.edu (Denis Goddard)
Date: 15 Sep 91 20:33:53 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: How to purify THC from leaves?

In article <1991Sep13.032248.2685@csl.sri.com> kph@cisco.com (Kevin Paul Herbert) writes:
>This comes from a friend of mine that doesn't have net access, so I won't be able to supply further details...
>
>1. Run all leaf through a wire mesh sifter (such as a kitchen flour sifter)
>2. Completely soak the leaf with ethyl or isopropyl alcohol for about 4 or 5 days.
>3. Strain resultant product through silk (used for silk-screening)
>4. Evaporate remainder by applying very low heat from kitchen stove
>   Caution: be very careful - the product is *quite* flammable
>5. After evaporating, there will be a remaining "goo". This is the hash oil.
>
>Kevin

 Use acetone instead of alcohol. THC is SUPER soluble in acetone - soak
 the ground-up leaves in acetone, then distill it off. best purity from
 any solvent I've ever tried. Next best choice is petroleum ether. Seriously,
 alcohols are too H2O - soluble for really good purity - lots of other
 nonpsychoactive stuff gets in the oil.

  P.S. once you've got the oil, it's REALLY sticky & hard to handle. mix with
  2 parts powdered leaf to form good hash.

   you're welcome.

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From: djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1991 20:51:52 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: THC extraction

Just for fun.  Here are some exerpts from the Experimental section of
a paper by Adams, Hunt, and Clark, JACS 62, 196 (1940).

    The hemp used in these experiments grew wild in Minnesota during
    the season of 1938.  It was cut in August, after flowering had
    begun but before seed had "set" in the female tops.  It was stored
    for six weeks in a room where a fan assured circulation of air in
    order to dry it completely.  No molding occurred.  The material
    was then beaten and shaken to remove the coarse stems which ammount-
    ed to about one-third of the total dry weight.  The stems were dis-
    carded and the relatively fine material that remained was extracted
    with 95% ethanol [equivalent to Everclear] in the manner described
    below.

    Four 20-gallon (75-liter) crocks, each holding approximately 23 lb.
    (10 kg.) of material, were set up in series for countercurrent
    extraction.  Each crock held approximately 61 liters of solvent of
    which about 41 liters were withdrawn at each transfer, the remain-
    der being retained by the hemp.
    ...
    The operations just described were carried out by Dr. John R. Matchett
    and his assistants in the Narcotics Laboratory of the Treasury
    Department, Washington, D.C.  They kindly furnished us with a gener-
    ous supply of ethanol extract. [don't you wish you had connections
    like that?]

The rest of the procedure involved removing ethanol and low boiling
components under reduced pressure (about 30 mm) and gradually increased
temperature (up to 200 C).  The remaining oil was distilled at 3 mm,
between 100-220 C.  This crude oil (180-200 g) was disolved in petroleum
ether (b.p. 30-60 C) and washed twice with water.  The pet. ether was
distilled off and the oil distilled at 2 mm, collecting the fraction
boiling at 175-195 C, yielding 90-110 g of "purified red oil."

So that's how the big boys did it back then.  University of Illinois
students and alums should note that the author Adams is none other than
Roger Adams for whom the chem lab is named.

At the time this paper was written it wasn't known just what the active
ingredient in pot was.  Cannabinol was the first compound identified in
red oil, and cannabidiol had just recently been isolated.  From the
conclusion of the introduction:

    Red oil probably contains other products closely related to canna-
    binol or cannabidiol in structure, such as partially hydrogenated
    cannabinols, isomers of cannabidiol, or molecules like cannabidiol
    with less unsaturation.  A large number of closely related compounds
    is possible.  The active marihuana principle or principles may be
    among this group of substances.  On the other hand, the possibility
    of the presence in red oil of a very potent active compound, entirely
    unrelated structurally to cannabinol or cannibidiol, is not excluded.

Very soon after that is was determined that THC was the active principle.
Roger Adams synthesized THC and several related compounds, some of which
were several times more potent than THC.  Roger Adams has a number of
interesting papers, Joe Bob says "check it out."

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From: lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu (Lamont Granquist)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1991 04:05:13 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Anon Post:  Makin' Hash

the following is an anonymous post which was forwarded to me by e-mail.

You haven't seen this yet, even though its quoted.
  
anonymous@somesite.somewhere sez:
>The following details an attempt at making hash from MJ stems..
> 
>  On friday I took a handfull of stems I had left from a QP we got
>about 6 months ago.  The MJ itself was by far the worst I've ever
>had..  I and 2 friends went through a half ounce without catching
>a good buzz.  But, I did keep the stems for some reason (Maybee
>I thought it'd be nice to have a foot long stem for cleaning bowls..
>Who knows..)  Anyway..  This is what I did..
> 
>  Fraday..  Put one handfull of stems in a jar filled with rubbing
>alcohol.  (It's hard to get everclear when you're under 21)
> 
>  Saturday..  Decided not to waste a month just to find that the hash
>was garbage, and did the following..
>  1: Put jar of Stems/Alcohol in a pot of boiling water (Leaving
>     the top of the jar open and above the surface of the water)..
>     I let it boil for about 30 minutes then decided that this was
>     going a bit too slow..
>  2: Strained Stems/Alcohol mix through 2 paper towels into a glass
>     pie plate.  (I was going to use coffee filters, but couldn't
>     find any..)
>  3: Put plate on stove and heated liquid until all of the rubbing
>     alcohol was gone.  (This took aprox 45 minutes on Med-Low
>     heat..  The Alcohol was gone after about 30 minutes. <The mix
>     did not have an alcohol smell>)
>  3.1 Caught one of the strangest buzzes ever while the mix
>     was evaporating..
>  4: Scraped up what looked to be a dark-brown oil with a razor blade.
>  5: Rolled the oil into a ball (This was no easy task..  The oil
>     seemed to liquify whenever I touched it..)
>  6: Smoked the oil in a pipe..  One drag and I was buzzing.  Another
>     and the pipe was clogged up.
>  7: Used a match and pulled out the remaining oil.
>  8: Used another match to set the remaining oil on fire..  It bubbled
>     and burnt on its own.
> 
>  Now for some questions about what happened..
> 
>  -Was it the Alcohol or MJ that was getting me stoned while I
>   was evaporating the mix?
> 
>  -Does rubbing alcohol leave behind any residue when it evaporates?
> 
>  -Does anyone out in net-land know of a better way to smoke the
>   oil?  I'd rather not mix it with tobacco or MJ.
> 
>  -Someone on the net was saying to leave the MJ in alcohol for a month.
>   What I experienced today would tend to make me believe this
>   unnecessary.  Did I lose alot of THC by boiling rather than waiting?
> 
>  -At what temperature does the THC itself start to break down?
> 
>                   Thanks for any help you can offer.
> 
>ANON

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> 
> Awhile back on alt.drugs you posted about having references for how to
> purify MJ into hash.  I was thinking this would be really good to add
> to the ftp site, along with the brownie recipies, etc.

I don't personally own these books; I just saw them in a "books by phone" 
catalog along with a bunch of other books--you know, Knuth's _Art of
Computer Programming_ volumes 1-3, Wirth's _Algorithms + Data Structures_...

_Cannabis Alchemy_, by Gold, 1990

_Great Book of Cannabis by Cherniak_, 1983

_Marijuana Chemistry by Starks_, 1990

I realize the above info is vague, but that's all the books by phone catalog
listed.

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Anonymous writes:

(1)	to utilize leftover marijuana components - sticks, water leaves
	and the like - simply put it in a double boiler with some butter,
	and let it simmer for a few hours, then strain out the butter and
	put it into a plastic container in the fridge. It's easy to make
	several cubes' worth of pot butter in this fashion ... and half a
	cube is about the amount of margerine or butter one uses when one
	is making brownies. No vegetable material actually enters the mix,
	such that the resulting brownies are substantially safer to carry.

	i've spent maybe ten years playing with petroleum ether and sundry
	other solvents, and it's really a waste of time trying to make hash
	with small amounts of marijuana. the cost : effect ratio just isn't
	justifiable. whereas the same materials, when invested in pot butter,
	not only utilize _every_ component, but can get a whole room full of
	people high ... or keep you sane for a few weeks, one a day.

(2)	although this is not confirmed scientifically, i have read that it
	is believed that, when marijuana is burned, some of the CBN or CBD
	is converted to THC by the heating process. i have applied this to
	my own life by taking a handful of water leaves from said plant and
	microwaving them for about three minutes on defrost ( 40% duty cycle,
	which may not correspond to any other microwave oven manufacturer's
	energy usage profile ), blowing on them and stirring them around to
	evaporate the moisture this elicits, then nuking 'em for another
	similar period of time. this seems to make the resulting smoke just
	a bit stronger.

It's really a shame that the Establishment doesn't apply itself to teaching
people how to use drugs intelligently and creatively, since, clearly, such
paths to competence and maturity exist. If I had known ten years ago what I
have learned through much reading and thinking, I would have saved myself a
lot of money, and, more importantly, a lot of grief and self-destructive
behavior which I have, fortunately, survived.

Please perpetuate this information as widely as possible, the better to teach
people how to avoid addictive behavioral sequences while continuing to explore
the realms of awareness in a mature and thoughtful manner.

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anonymous2@anothersite.somewhere.else writes:
>anonymous@somesite.someplace writes:
>>(1)	to utilize leftover marijuana components - sticks, water leaves
>>	and the like - simply put it in a double boiler with some butter,
>>	and let it simmer for a few hours, then strain out the butter and
>>	put it into a plastic container in the fridge. It's easy to make
>>	several cubes' worth of pot butter in this fashion ... and half a
>>	cube is about the amount of margerine or butter one uses when one
>>	is making brownies. No vegetable material actually enters the mix,
>>	such that the resulting brownies are substantially safer to carry.
>>
>>	i've spent maybe ten years playing with petroleum ether and sundry
>>	other solvents, and it's really a waste of time trying to make hash
>>	with small amounts of marijuana. the cost : effect ratio just isn't
>>	justifiable. whereas the same materials, when invested in pot butter,
>>	not only utilize _every_ component, but can get a whole room full of
>>	people high ... or keep you sane for a few weeks, one a day.
>
>I have to disagree on the the 'waste of time' comment. In the past, I
>have had (through an act of GOD) the great fortune of having multiple
>ounces of green leafy material in my possession. As this material was
>not quite suitable for smoking (taste reasons...), I sought out to 
>find a way to make use of it. 
>
>The best method I ver used was really quite simple.
>
>First, I used a blender to turn the material into a fine powder. Then,
>combine the material with enough acetone to completely cover it. Let the
>mix soak for at least one or two days, covered and not near ANY flame
>source. Then, strain the acetone into a crock-pot (slow cooker). It's
>perfectly fine to have some of the finest ground material in the strained
>acetone when done, as this helps the pseudo-hash burn nicely. Now, cook
>the mixture on low heat until ALL the acetone has evaporated. Voila! You
>now have the closest thing to the real mccoy, and it came from LEAF! If
>you want to take it a step further, use a press to make small blocks. This
>is more time consuming than it's worth, though.
>
>Works like a charm, and the result is quite pleasing, to say the least.

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EDITORIAL BY:  lamontg@milton.u.washington.edu

Also, there was much discussion of "double boilers".  You use a double boiler
whenever you are trying to heat, and evaporate volatile liquids.  It should
be reasonably obvious that this is necessary to boil off the [acetone|alcohol|
isopropyl alcohol] which you would mix with the hash.  A double boiler is
simplely a large pot with water in it, which contains a smaller pot with the
"pot" in it.  The water in the large pot boils, heating the smaller pot but
never exceeding the temperature of the boiling point of water.  Thus, there is
a much smaller risk of blowing yourself up.  

When dealing with flammable liquids like these solvents, proper ventalation
is required, and flames are an absolutely contraindicated.  There is a stupid
text file running around the net on how to "make" Methamphetamine, which is
actually a procedure for extracting psudoephedrine.  One of the brilliant
suggestions by the authors of this article was to evaporate by placing a
solvent on a hot water heater.  This is dumb.  Real dumb.  Particularly if
you've got a gas hot water heater with a pilot light.  (Can you say "Kaboom"
boyz & girls?  I knew you could...).  Be a little careful. 

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FROM:  Anonymous
                                     
I don't ever touch marijuana anymore, but I had to comment on the correct
method of smoking hash oil. When I was younger I had a girlfriend who lived
in Calumet, in a little house on the edge of town. Across the road was
an old tailings heap covered in long grass that waved in the wind. Anyway, 
she loved to drink ginger brandy and she loved to get high. She had some
hash oil that summer and we smoked it together. Actually, I had more fun 
smoking it being high afterward. It was really too strong. But the smoking
method was a kick, and it didn't waste any of the oil. 
    We would sit at her kitchen table and heat a small, thin glass pipe
with a crook in it, but no bowl (there had been a bowl once, but it had
broken off, and it was not needed for the method) and heat the lower part 
WITH A PROPANE TORCH. Once the glass was glowing red, one of us would 
dip a wire loop into the hash oil and apply it to the inside of the lower
extremity of the glass tube while the other person inhaled.
    The oil vaporized instantly, but some always precipitated on the inside
of the pipe. After a few hits, we would 'cook' the pipe with the torch along
its length to get this resin out. 
    I maintain that this method, as opposed to others described, is truly
efficient and easy--AND YOU GET TO WAVE A FLAMING PROPANE TORCH AROUND
WHILE GETTING UNREASONABLY HIGH!!

[Disclaimer:  If you need a disclaimer to point out the potential danger of
 doing this, then you're too dumb to live and we can just think of it as
 natural selection in action -- Lamont]

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From: fiend@sideways.welly.gen.nz (Fiend)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 14:24:01   Y
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: HASH EXPERIMENTATION

I read with interest a compilation of older net messages regarding the usage of
hash oil and hash block.
.
What I say here may not be 100% correct, but if not, I'm sure someone will
straighten me out a few points. Spelling etc etc etc is not my strong point, so
please bare with me.
.
If you have heard it all before, let me know! I'll keep my big trap shut next
tyme! Similarly, NZ supplies of things may be different from USA.
.
OIL.
.
Usually brought in capsules that used to contain prescription drugs. It is very
dark in colour (darker usually is the better quality) but has a slight
brown/green tinge to it depending on process used to make and the quality of
ingrediants.
.
It just so happens that this particular oddity is almost as common as grass in
New Zealand, and represents better value for money. The average J over here
would set you back $6 NZ - That's 1/3 of a B @ $20NZ. I have never payed more
than $40NZ. This represent a good deal of stoning, about double value for money
from the original green!
.
BLOCK.
.
This stuff is not as common as the above. Harder to make, and best made in
*large* quantities - Thus the home manufacturing idea goes out the window,
unless you are charging the earth.
.
Again, $30-40NZ for an average block, although occasionally one or two come
along a little more expensive. I think the expensive stuff (well... These are
street prices, so I know it's ALL looking expensive... Work out our exchange
rate by the way...) comes from inland resources, where as the cheap is Jamican
origin, or therabouts.
.
My prefered of the two? Well, let's just say that you loose $5 worth of hash
for ever $30 you manage to intake. You probably loose less (money speaking) of
oil than block. For that reason - OIL!
.
However, (oh gawd, here we go!) block is truley magnificient when dropping
shavings of the stuff straight onto an element. It isn't really a portable
drug, block, as it needs a lot of work to take.
.
CONSUMPTION.
.
Don't know about you guys, but we just use some sort of funnel placed over the
approx area of burning. Works fine, never bothered with anything more
complex/expensive.
.
A tip for the outdoors - Tin Foil held up by some sticks over a candle, and
just drop block onto it. For oil - Try a laying out some decent size spots (1x1
inch) and get all your mates around with straws!

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                        Marijuana Smoking Guide

                   By: Reefer Man and the Chamelion

Warning:Smoking pot is illegal in the united states.  Marijuana is
chemically not addictive, but CAN be psychologically addicting.  Do
not smoke pot when you are working with dangerous equiptment.  When
smoked, pot lasts about 4-5 hours.  However, it is detectable in the
blood stream for 14-30 days.  Marijuana is about 5 times as harsh as
cigarette tobacco on your lungs.  On the other hand, not many people I
know smoke a pack of pot everyday.  Enjoy the T-file!!

    I recently realized that there aren't any GOOD files out
here on smoking Ganja, so I decided to write this.  Enjoy.

Joints:

I hope you don't need instructions on how to roll a joint.  I
personally don't use them very often, unless I'm in a very
casual place and have a lot of shake on me.  They are very
wasteful, but there's nothing like smoking a joint while listening
to Bob Marley.  If your not a skilled roller, you can pick up
automatic rollers at your local tobacco shop.   You can even use
dollar bills as joint paper.

Bowls:

Probably the best way to smoke.  There are many, many different
ways to make them.  If you aren't to creative then just buy
a pipe. Bowls are great because they are easy to carry and conceal.

        The only tip I have to give you is to make sure you have a
metal screen in it or you'll waste a lot of shake.

        Here are a few interesting improvised bowls I have seen
        lately:  Take a 12 ounce aluminum can, drink the contents and
        rinse out.  Lay it on its side and take a 1-3 cm hardback book
        and press it in the center so you have a indentation about half
        way down.  Use a pin to poke a lot of small holes into the
        indentation.  Put the weed on top of the holes, light it and suck
        through the hole where the tab was.  Recently I was fooling
        around with sticks and trying to make bowls out of them.  I found
        that if you use a stick 1 1/2 - 2 cm in diameter it works best.
        Cut it off at your desired length (the shorter it is the easier
        it is to drill and conceal (mine is 7 cm long)).  Use a 1/2 cm
        or smaller) drill bit to drill down the center.  Leave one end
        closed.  Use about a 1 cm drill bit to drill a hole from the top
        down until it reaches the other hole.  Shove a screen down there,
        paint it, carve it, stain it... do whatever you like to
        it.

Water Pipes (or bongs):

A water pipe is a complex bowl that cools down and filters the
smoke, allowing you to keep it in your lungs longer.
                       _____
Diagram:             > ----.\   ____
                    /      ||   \  / <------ bowl
                   /     __||____||___
                  /     /__||____||___\
              pipe      |  ||    ||   |
                        |        ||   |
                        |^^^^^^^^||^^^| <------ water line
                        |        ||   |
                        |             |
                        |             |
                        \_____________/

        As you can see it is not that complex.  You need some sort
of jar (any type of material is ok) with an air-tight seal. Drill
two holes into the top and insert two tubes (also of any material,
but the more heat resistant, the better) of different lengths.
Attach a bowl to the top of the longer tube.  Any bowl
will do, just make sure the opening is on the bottom and it has a
fine screen.  Fill the bottle with water, so the longer tube is
under water and the shorter one isn't.  Fill the bowl with some
fine weed, light and suck from the shorter tube.  Due to pressure
differences the smoke is pulled through the water (you'll hear
the bubbling) and cooled.  You can usually get two hits where you
could normally get one because the chamber fills with smoke.  You
can improvise a lot of the bong and still have it work.  Be
creative.

Gravity bongs:

With one of these contraptions you can get an extreme amount of
concentrated smoke in your lungs at once.

Diagram:                  ____
                          \  / <)))))) bowl
                           ||
                          /  \
                         /    \
                     |  /      \  |
   water line )))))> |^/^^^^^^^^\^|
                     | |        | |
                     | |        | |
                     | |        | |
                     | |        | |
                     \____________/

        Start with a 3 liter bottle of your favorite drink.  Drink
it.  Get a 2 liter bottle of another drink.  Drink it.  Cut the
top off of the 3 liter using an exacto knife, right where
it starts to slant up. Throw out the top. Cut off the bottom of the
2 liter right above the black thing on the bottom.  Remove the cap
and drill a small hole in it.  Now, scrape out the plastic inside the
cap.  Place your bowl over the opening, and tape it down to make a
seal. Fill the 3 liter with cool water to the top, leave about an inch
free so you don't spill water.  Before you put on the cap, place the 2
liter bottle in the 3 liter, letting it slide slowly down.  Put on the
cap (with attached bowl), place the screen in the bowl, and fill with
pot.  You don't need that much,  overdoing it just wastes the stuff.
Place your lighter over the bowl, and light it, while slowly lifting
up the 2 liter bottle.  This creates a vacuum inside the 2 liter bowl,
which draws the flame into the bowl, and the smoke into the bottle.
Go slowly, and remove your lighter.  Keep pulling up, and the vacuum
will keep the pot burning.  Once the entire bottle is filled up (being
carefull not to go to far), carefully unscrew the cap.  Place your
hand over the mouth of the bottle, to stop smoke from comming out.
Breathe out almost all your air, and then place your mouth over the
bottle.  Slowly push the 2 liter bottle down, forcing all the smoke
into your lungs.  Make sure you don't go down to far and get water in
your lungs, it's the worst.   If you have decent pot, you should get a
major high pretty quickly, you will only need about 2 hits.  Warning :
It's not possible to O.D. on pot, but if you are inexperianced, this
much pot will bring you to a very high peak, to the point where you
loose many of your senses, and find it hard to speak or understand
anyone.  It has the possibility of being a bad experiance.  On the
other hand, it can be a truly great experiance.

Eating Weed:

        I'm not to sure about this one (never tried it), though I've
learned a lot about it.  Take a good amount and put it in some
water to let it soak for a couple of minutes. Microwave the mush
for about 5 minutes (or until it gets dry again).  This will
break down the cell wall to aid in digestion.  It will probably
take an hour or two to take effect.  There are many other ways of
eating pot, on crackers, brownies, etc.  The main difference is that
you will not peak as high, but will be high for much longer, around 8
hrs.

How to beat the drug testing:

1. Drink lots of fluids.
2. Urinate and perspire often.
3. If suprised, empty the nearest water cooler.

If going to a test:

1. Have a friend fill a Bard Dispoz-a-Bag Drainage Bad, and tape it to
your abdomen.  Run the tube down to your fly.  The piss must be fresh.
2. For women, a urine filled condom or vanilla extract bottle inserted
into the vagina can work wonders.
3. Distract the distributor, or bribe him.
4. If your really fucked, add toilet water to your sample, or a few
draino crystals to lower your pH.

After you've been tested:

1. List over the counter drugs medications which are cross-reactive,
such as Advil, Nuprin, Motrin, or Mydol.

Remember: Using drugs at work is wrong when you are operating heavy
equiptment, or are responsable for people's lives.

PS2- Caught by your parents?  Don't admit it!  There's no way they can
prove your st0ned, just say you feel sick!.

                                        L8r, Reefer Man
                                             Chamelion
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Author: rml3362@rigel.tamu.edu (Michael Litchfield)
Subject: Marijuana consumption
Last Update: 6 Jun 91 19:30:02 GMT


    This paper is an exposition on the consumption of marijuana for its 
psychoactive effects. Covered will be the two primary methods used in America
today, smoking and eating/drinking, with smoking being the more common method.
There are a whole lot of lies, half-truths, myths, and supposition about the
consumption of marijuana this is an attempt to clear things up as much as
possible.

Smoking
-------

    Smoking is the quickest but least efficient method of ingesting marijuana 
and experiencing its effects. Marijuana smoke contains a number of 
carcinogens, many of  which can be removed if the smoke is filtered through a 
water bong but it will still contains some carcinogens and can be an irritant. 
Studies have shown THC has a bronchiodialator effect, which may be effective in 
purging the particulates from the lungs.

Joints

   Joints, marijuana cigarettes, are the perennial favorite of many people. 
They are "shake", marijuana which has had the stems and seeds removed, which 
is inside a fold of rice paper and then rolled into a cylinder. This is the 
singularly most portable method to smoke grass once the joint has been rolled. 

   When a joint has been smoked down to the point that it is difficult to hold 
it is called a "roach" and wide variety of paraphernalia exists which are 
designed to hold the roach without burning oneself. Collectively known as 
"roach clips" they include tweezers, alligator clips, forceps, needle nose 
pliers, and ceramic pieces with holes through them. There are a number of 
devices available to facilitate rolling a joint. Absolutely essential is a 
cleaning tray to remove the stems and seeds from the lose marijuana. There 
are a number of papers available with which to roll ones joint, varying in 
color, pattern, size, and presence of gummed edges. There are rolling 
"machines" which make the process of rolling a joint much less ticklish, but 
with practice and skill at rolling joints these tend to hinder more than help. 
One of the more intriguing techniques of smoking a joint is taking what is
known as a powerhit. This is accomplished by having an accomplice surround the
burning end of the joint with their mouth, taking care not to allow their skin
to come into contact with the glowing end, and blowing while one takes a hit
from the other end. This can be somewhat dicey, but is one of the more intimate
ways of sharing a joint.

    Etiquette requires one to pass the joint in a circular fashion through 
those present. No one is required to take a toke if they do not care to, but 
they are expected to pass it on if it comes to them. "Bogartting", hoarding 
the joint when it comes to you, is a SERIOUS breach of protocol. People too 
stoned to smoke the joint let alone pass it are expected to be skipped over 
and a joint can (politely) be removed from someone if they do not seem to be 
sharing the consensus reality.

Bongs

    Bongs, or water pipes if you are in a head shop, pass the smoke through 
water to cool and filter it. Grass is put into a bowl on the end of a tube whose
other end is in a sealed container partially filled with water. The end of the
bowl's tube is below the level of the water so that as the smoke exits the
pipe it is bubble through a layer of water. The air pressure in the chamber is
lowered by breathing through another tube that stays above the water level in
the chamber. When the air pressure inside the chamber is lowered, air from
outside the chamber passes through the bowl and its tube and bubbles through the
water. Bongs are not particularly portable, as they tend to be awkward,
delicate, and heavy. Sizes range from the size of a small pill container to
eight foot tall escapees from a mad scientist laboratory. Principally made from
glass, plastic, ceramic, and metal they can be an art form unto themselves. The
principal benefit of smoking grass through a bong is that the smoke is cooled
and several carcinogens are removed without removing the active ingredients.
One can put any number of liquids in the chamber to filter the smoke, and beer
or other forms of alcohol are often used, but this is not recommended. The
active ingredients in marijuana are fat and alcohol soluble and when filtered 
through such substances the active ingredients go into solution. In addition 
the carcinogens in marijuana smoke are water soluble so that when smoke passes
through some liquid other than water one loses active ingredients and gains 
carcinogens in the smoke entering your lungs. One method recommended is to
put ice water in the chamber, the cooled water is not quite as effective at
removing the carcinogens but the additional cooling is favored among
smokers. Carburetors are small openings in the chamber that are covered during
the hit and towards the end opened to allow all the smoke to escape the chamber.
Occasionally one finds a bong designed so that carboration is accomplished by
lifting the bowl slightly and allowing the air to enter the bowl tube.

Pipes

Pipes are the simplest devices used to smoke marijuana. For the most part
they are similar to pipes used to smoke tobacco but marijuana pipes should be
made of heat resistant materials such as stone, ivory, metal, glass, and
occasionally harder woods. Grass does not tend to stay lit in pipe so
flame constantly has to be applied to bowl which heats it up more than pipes
with tobacco in them typically are heated. A common variant of pipe is the 
stash pipe, a pipe where one may store a small amount of grass. Some stash 
pipes are constructed in such a manner that the the smoke passes through the 
stash area so that the grass inside is bathed in the smoke and acquires a 
coating of resin which contains THC thus making it more potent when it is turn 
is smoked. There are glass hash pipes which are used to smoke hashish and 
hashish oil, the materiel is placed in the bowl as with other pipes but 
instead of heat being applied to the top of the substance it is applied to the 
bottom of the pipe.

One-hits

One-hits, or dugouts as they are sometimes called, are a highly portable
method of smoking grass for someone who does not want to smoke an entire joint
at one time. A one-hit is a small metal tube that has a small cavity at one 
end and a mouthpiece at the other. One presses the cavity into a small 
container of cleaned grass to fill it and then is lit somewhat like a 
cigarette and inhaled steadily until the grass is gone. One only gets one
inhalation or "hit" per filling thus it is called a one hit. A dugout is small
wooden container which has a space for the cleaned grass and another space for
the one-hit itself.

Gas Pipes

Gas Pipes are open ended tubes with a small bowl mounted near one end
perpendicular to the main axis of the tube. The end near the bowl is covered
with your hand and the smoke is drawn into the tube until the bowl is burned out
then the hand is removed and all the smoke in the tube rushes into your lungs.
These are usually made from glass, though occasionally one will find plastic
pipes.

Gravity Bongs

   Gravity bongs are more a style of smoking than a particular apparatus for the
consumption of marijuana. With a gravity bong one uses water pressure to
create the vacuum in a chamber rather then one's lungs as with water pipes and
gas pipes. A gravity bong is made by placing a cylinder that is open at one and
and closed except for a place for a bowl at the other. The open end is placed 
in a large  container of water until the chamber of the cylinder is filled with 
water. The filled bowl is then attached and a flame is applied to the 
marijuana in it. The cylinder is lifted slowly up. As the cylinder is lifted 
up the water trapped inside will seek to escape out the open end into the 
container due to the force of gravity. This creates a vacuum at the top of 
the chamber near the bowl, this vacuum sucks the smoke from the burning 
marijuana into the chamber replacing the water. A tube may reach from the 
bowl to near the base of the cylinder making it a true bong or the end may not 
actually enter the water so that is is similar to a gas pipe. after the
material in the bowl has been burned and the smoke has filled the chamber the
bowl is removed and the cylinder is pushed back down into the container. As the
water re-enter the chamber it forces the smoke out where and hopefully into an
expectant individual. This is the most common form of a water bong but any
number of similar schemes exist which can use the vacuum created by the
exiting water to draw the smoke, and then use that water again to force it out
of the chamber.

Tilt Pipes

    Tilt pipes are pipes which have a heating element built into the pipe at
the bowl, the element heats the marijuana to sub-flammable temperature but 
which will activate and release the cannabanoids, or active ingredients, from 
the plant material. Most smoking accessories apply an external flame to the 
marijuana which vaporizes and breaks down many cannabanoids before they can be 
consumed, thus wasting a portion of the active ingredients in the marijuana. 
These device tend to be very rare usually only found among connoisseurs. They 
are called tilt pipes because one tilts the pipe to bring the marijuana into 
contact with the heating element.


Eating & Drinking
-----------------

    The active ingredients in cannabis are fat and alcohol soluble so they can
be extracted and added to foodstuff entering the system through the digestive
tract rather than through the lungs. This type of consumption of marijuana tend
to be both slower and more efficient than smoking it. Further the noxious
effects of consuming heated smoke are completely eliminated. For these reasons
this is the favored method of marijuana consumption by many people. 

Eating

    Marijuana must be heated before being consumed to activate the cannabanoids
so one cannot simply eat raw grass. The traditional method of eating it is to
cook it in a brownie, especially when it is in the form of hashish, though it
can be used in any number of things. The recommended method of eating marijuana
is to saute it in butter or margarine over medium heat, then to strain the
remaining solids out and use the butter to cook with. One can use this
marijuana butter to make brownies, cook vegetables, or however else one might
use butter to cook with, one can even spread it on a slice of bread. Many
people will mix the the residual solids in with whatever they are cooking in
hopes of making use of whatever cannabanoids might still be in them, but if
done properly this in not generally valuable. A typical ratio for making the
marijuana butter is one stick of butter to one eight of an ounce of marijuana,
and headed for fifteen to twenty minutes.


Drinking
--------

    One may extract the active ingredients from marijuana using alcohol and
then use this tincture to make a potent drink. The highest proof alcohol
available should be used, preferably 190 proof grain alcohol, since the water
in the alcohol will dissolve other chemicals in the marijuana that one
wishes to avoid. Some suggest soaking the grass in warm water for a period to 
remove those chemicals but that presents a whole host of other and is not
really recommended. One may simply place the marijuana into a bottle of grain
alcohol and let the canabanoids leach out, but this takes 2-3 weeks of time. A
faster method is to heat the alcohol to sub-boiling and stir in the marijuana.
Great deal of care should be taken if this method is chosen as the alcohol is 
highly flammable. The resulting tincture, often called "Green Dragon", is a
light to emerald green liquid, which can be drunk straight, but this is not
recommended. Highly lauded is a drink of 3 parts lemon lime soda, 1 part green 
dragon and a dollop of honey served over ice.

-Michael


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