With as much traction this is getting in thirty minutes. I would love to eat drink or smoke pot with the lot of you potheads lol much love to you all keep it coming
A joint and a pipe are very similar.
A bong is the same thing but you can smoke way more at once so it hits you harder and faster.
A blunt is basically a giant joint but it’s wrapped in tobacco paper so you get a little extra tobacco buzz alongside the weed.
The biggest difference with edibles is that because you eat them and they have to go through your digestive system (rather than through your lungs), there’s like a 45m delay before you feel anything. That means is really easy to eat some, think ‘i don’t feel anything, I should double up my dose’ and then get way too high.
That being said there is also evidence that when cannabis is processed through the digestive system there are enzymes that turn them into different cannabinoids, so you edibles probably do genuinely produce a slightly different high
All accurate, for completion I would also add:
Joints are just weed wrapped in a thin paper, smoked like a cigarette.
Bongs have water which cools the smoke down a bit and allows for bigger hits. You also inhale the smoke straight into your lungs as opposed to pulling it into your mouth and then inhaling like with a joint.
A spliff is a joint mixed with tobacco, gives you more of the tobacco buzz but hits much harsher than a blunt
Edibles can also last a lot longer than smoking (and obviously better for your lungs). Smoking gets everything in your system at once, lasting for up to an hour or two (at least for some people), while edibles start working while they’re being digested and continue working for a few hours at least.
In my experience, the high is just slightly different with each method, with the biggest difference being between smoking and eating edibles.
One will get you high, the rest will get you high
Well, edibles not only give a delayed effect that can last longer, but they also feel much different. I personally am not a fan of edibles as they give me anxiety where inhalation doesn’t. They feel more “intoxicating” in my experience. Others have pretty much nailed the difference between joints and blunts. Bowls (pipes) tend to waste less weed than joints and blunts and emit less smoke while not actively hitting it. Bongs have also been pretty accurately described by others, but a fat bong rip will knock you on your ass way more than the aforementioned three.
There are other methods as well. There’s dry herb vapes which basically “cook” the flower, releasing the compounds as vapor than smoke. It’s much less harsh on the lungs and protects some of the more delicate compounds responsible for flavor and the exact feel of different strains. Then there’s concentrates, which have a bunch of different methods of inhalation - pens and dabs are the main ones, with dabs having many different means of inhalation. Pens are the easiest to control the dose of, you can take little hits for just a light buzz or rip the hell out of em to get blasted quick. They tend to wear off quicker. Dabs are the strongest. Not really for beginners.
Apart from the instant versus delayed effects of smoke against edibles, it’s basically a lot like booze. Drunk is drunk, but there’s a difference between beer drunk, keg drunk, whiskey drunk, tequila drunk, etc.
Same thing.
Firstly you have 2 different categories: edibles and smoking. These are completely different processes with different chemistry and biology.
Since there is plenty of good info here, I would only say this:
The difference between different options in tge same category are just how fast and how efficient they are, that’s really it. The speed can make significant differences in feeling but usually all options can be used to get all of the same results, just some are better at one thing while others are better at another.
Joint is when it’s too hot and too much with my low tolerance. I need a couple hits, so not my choice.
Pipe is hot smoke, so meh. Last resort option, for when you go somewhere and want it to fit into a pocket.
Bong is a sweet spot - not hot, and you can put however much you want.
For all the three, effect is the same, so only really depends on how much you smoke.
Edibles: for me the effect is slower and more even throughout the time. And if you make edibles yourself it’s kinda waste of product because some of the wffect is lost when you cook stuff (bake brownies, etc). But is the best option for non-smokers.
There is also an option of mixing tobacco and weed/hash with tobacco in a usual cigarette, it was a good way to not have a full joint of weed for me, but I quit smoking years ago and I don’t want to accidentally get back to it.There is no consistency and no standards. It’s actually a big problem. Customers don’t have any reliable way to know what kind of dose they’re getting. And even experienced users can get surprised.
There needs to be regulation on dosage and packaging. If marijuana was more dangerous, this would be killing people. Can you imagine ordering a drink and not knowing if it was beer or liquor until you started to feel the effect?
your example of beer vs liqueur is not a good one …
ordering a beer and getting non-alcoholic vs upto 8% would be more appropriate… not changing the product entirely.
I’ve never bought weed, and gotten hash or the same effects as hash… which would be more akin to your whatever.
what said, fuck regulations… it’s nature, no one is being hurt or killed… sometimes nature makes good fruit, sometimes it’s shit. GMO curated bullshit needs to stay the hell away from plants.