Smoking
There are several methods of smoking cannabis. The most popular include the spliff or joint, the bong, the pipe, the shotgun, and the one-hitter. Smoking is the most popular method of ingesting marijuana. Although being the quickest method, it is also the least efficient one, as marijuana smoke contains a number of carcinogens. Many carcinogens can be removed if the smoke is filtered through a water bong, but still some will remain, and can be an irritant. Studies have shown THC to have a bronchiodialator effect, which may be effective in purging the particulates from the lungs.

Joints
Joints, marijuana cigarettes, are the preferred method of marijuana ingestion for many people. The cannabis buds are broken apart, the seeds and stems removed, leaving only small marijuana pieces, called "shake", which is then rolled up into a cigarette using rolling paper (where available). Brown paper, newsprint, and other assorted paper products can be used, but these often contain harmful chemicals. Cannabis cigars, or blunts can also be created by using the wrapper of a standard cigar. Flavored blunt wraps are quite popular and enhance the smoking experience. Other rolling paper variations include color, pattern, size, and presence of gummed edges.

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A shotgun or blowback involves two people. One person takes a hit then puts the joint or blunt ember first into his mouth. Another person then places his mouth over the front end, and first person exhales through the joint, blowing both his smoke and the joint’s smoke into the other person’s mouth. More efficient variations of shotgunning involve both members curling their hands to form a 'shotgun' chamber. Simultaneous exhaling by one member and inhaling by the other member will effectively transfer smoke between the two people. Many consider this to be a very intimate practice.

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

A bong is a water pipe through which cannabis smoke is filtered. Variants include the gravity bong, which consists of a cone atop a perforated or cut water bottle, and the revolutionary BUKKET - a dry gravity bong which operates without water. This method of cannabis smoking is one of the most efficient, as the presence of a chamber and carburetor reduce smoke waste.

Smoking from a bong is somewhat different than smoking from a pipe or cigarette. Bongs are designed to cool the smoke before it enters the smoker's lungs, to build up a large buffer of smoke which the user inhales quickly, or to filter unwanted chemicals from the smoke before inhalation.

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 bubbled 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, acrylic, ceramics, and metal they can be an art form unto themselves.

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The water helps filter out some of the undesirable substances found in smoke, such as tar, and many other carcinogens as these are water soluble. It also helps cool the smoke down before it enters the lungs, allowing for a smoother and deeper inhalation. Some bongs are designed with twists or traps for ice in the neck. Some people have experimented by replacing the water with fruit juice or alcoholic spirits or have a preference of using steaming water, if their bong can withstand the heat of the water.

A few bongs have a small hole; a carburetor or carb (also called a shotty (from 'shotgun'); choke; or rush (hole)). This is simply a valve that the user places his finger over when inhaling allowing the chamber to fill up with smoke. If the user releases the carb then he or she is no longer having to pull the smoke through the downpipe and water so it is easier or more relaxing to smoke. Some bong users allow fresh air to rush rapidly in through the hole. The fresh air mixes with the smoke and forces the smoke into the users lungs more rapidly than just normal inhaling would do. Inhaling a lung full of smoke is known as a hit. Often, bongs are smoked in two hits; first a "lit hit" when smoke is allowed to fill the chamber, then, after a short break, the "chamber hit" or the "clear", when the user inhales smoke.

Gravity Bongs
A gravity bong (also known as bucket bongs, buckets, g-bongs, GBs, sinkers, torpedoes, depth-charges, aqualungs, or turbos) does not necessarily filter the smoke through water but instead use water to generate a slow and constant vacuum in the chamber. This offers the same benefit of delivering a concentrated charge of smoke to the user but are much more effective at making the smoke denser, hence, more chemicals can be absorbed.

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 steel, aluminum, brass, 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 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
A "one-hitter" is a device that allows smaller amounts of cannabis to be smoked. This method of smoking grass is good 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. Cannabis buds are loaded into the cavity, often known as a "dugout". The smoker then lights the grass and and inhales steadily until the grass is gone. This is repeated for each hit. One only gets one inhalation or "hit" per filling, thus it is called a one hit.

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.


Vaporizers
Vaporizers, commonly called 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 which will activate and release the cannabanoids, or active ingredients, from the plant material. The active chemicals vaporize into a "thin mist" but will not burn. This mist is then captured in a compartment, ready to be inhaled whenever you want to. The vaporizer is much more efficent than most smoking accessories which apply an external flame to the marijuana which breaks down many cannabanoids before they can be consumed, thus wasting a portion of the active ingredients in the marijuana. These devices tend to be rare and somewhat expensive, usually only found among connoisseurs.
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