The Cannabis Evolution

Cannabis Evolution…

*subtitle: legalized cannabis

Do you all remember using soda pop cans as a pipe? Or what about taking knife hits off the stove burner? Those are just a couple- oh the different fruit and vegetables used as pipes too. A carrot, an apple, and a potato. When smoking resin was a delicacy. The cannabis culture has definitely shifted throughout the years and bringing innovative scientific ways to society.

I remember when no one would have a pipe or papers so we would have to improvise. We would usually drink the pop or the beer. I would usually pop off the metal piece that pops the can open to drink. I would bend the metal piece til it would break off and turn into a poker. Then I would indent the can in a way to hold the weed. I would then poke five holes in the can and make sure they weren’t too big so the weed wouldn’t fall through. Then I would poke a bigger hole near the bottom of the can but still on its side. This is what they refer to as the carb. Now we had our own make shift pipe. I wouldn’t recommend it only in hard times.

The fruit and vegetable pipes would be created the same as a can pipe but would need to dent in the fruit or vegetable. We would just cut a hole in the inside and connect it to the top and create a little bowl for the weed to sit in. And sometimes create a carb off to the side but connected to the hole for air flow.

Nowadays there are many different pipes from glass to a type of rubber plastic type pipe.

For the knife hits, man I remember I took a hit and could not quit coughing. I was coughing so hard, I went out in the snow and laid there coughing. I thought I would never stop coughing. What we would do is scrap the weed pipes for resin. We would ball up the resin in tiny resin balls. We would heat the stove up with electric burners and put the knives under them inside the rings and let them heat up. We would then cut a plastic bottle top off so we could use it as a inhaler for the smoke. Once the knives were heated up we would then grab the knives off the burner and place a resin ball on one of the knivves and use the other knife to squeeze the resin ball. Once the smoke start forming we would take the bottle top and suck up the smoke. And this would create a massive hit and total highness in a matter of minutes.

Nowadays they have a process to extract thc and create dabs depending on the method. Now there are dab rigs and people usually use a torch. This is where the idea of crack weed might have came from. Because of using a torch. Insert laughter here.

Something else i forgot to mention is when taking a ‘hit’. I remember when smoking a joint everyone would hold the smoke in there lungs for 3 to 5 seconds and then blow the smoke out. Nowadays people just inhale and exhale like smoking a cigarette.

Another thing I come to disagree with is how some say thc must be activated by heat in order to feel a ‘high’. They call it THCA. THCA is the form before heat activation. From personal experience with eating cannabis raw, I became high as hell when I ate an eighth. I was stoned to the bone for a day and half. Maybe it depends on the person because cannabis effects everyone different. It’s like how people favor strains over other strains due to the effects. It’s amazing to see cannabis culture evolve.