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As the world continues to search for cleaner and purer methods to consume dry herbs and tobacco, glass blunts have exploded in popularity often taking the place of popular tobacco leaf blunt wraps. A glass blunt merely replaces the blunt wrap with a glass tube and a moveable object down the middle to push the burned ash out of the glass tube. I am by no means saying that smoking in glass blunts is good for your health, I am saying that smoking tobacco is bad and the glass blunt allows you to avo …

Torches have become an integral accessory to the current smoking community due to the increasing ubiquity of concentrates. Modern smoke shops offer a wide range of the common tabletop torches, however, there are smokers who would rather avoid these flame belching utensils due to fear of being burned. Many people are not comfortable making torches household items because of these fears and have begun exploring alternative methods of vaporizing concentrates. This has ultimately led consumers to be …

Lean or purple drank has become almost an epidemic in certain neighborhoods of the United States. The drink is a mixture of cough syrup with promethazine and codeine and sprite. Occasionally hard jolly rancher candy is added to increase sweetness. It is often abused and is an illegal use of a legal prescription based substance. People use lean to relax, slow down and release their minds from their problems. The lean slows them down so much that many users report feeling motor skill impairment, l …

The technology around vaporizing concentrates is constantly advancing, as a relatively new, high-tech method of consumption. Everything we know about concentrates continues to change as these advancements are made. From the materials used to produce them, all the way to the methods used to vaporize them we can see innovation. These advancements seem like they could change the way we see bangers entirely. In fact, some of the most recent advancements have changed the materials that bangers are ma …

With the proliferation of vaporization and its related tools and technologies, there has been a corresponding increase in the use of concentrates. The preferred method and device for most connoisseurs to smoke concentrates is in a dab rig. With few exceptions, when using dab rigs, concentrates are heated in a nail or banger, the various benefits and disadvantages of which were discussed in a previous blog post. The large majority of nails and bangers must be heated with a torch to raise the …

Low-temperature dabs have become an essential cornerstone in the concentrates smoking community. This is because the flavor is preserved at lower temperatures. So much of the innovation around bangers has been focused on achieving efficient vaporization that provides a terpene-rich flavor profile. Traditional nails and bangers relied on conduction to dab wax concentrates. However, as bangers evolve to more conveniently enable lower temperature dabs, convection is replacing conduction. The quartz …

Vaporization of concentrates now comes in many shapes and sizes due to the demands of the current market. Perhaps the most popular method of vaping concentrates has become pre-filled vape cartridges. These are simply small e-cigarette tanks or vape pen cartridges with a 510 thread filled with concentrate oil. For the rest of the article, I will refer to them by their popular name, “vape pens” or “vape pen cartridges.” Some people who wish to try this relatively recent inn …

Dry herb vaporization has become the pinnacle gold standard of healthy dry herb consumption. This trend has emerged because vaporized dry herbs do not create many of the carcinogens and tars that are released upon combustion during smoking. There are two types of vaporization chambers utilized in dry herb vaporizers: the most common is a conduction oven while others use convection. Conduction ovens achieve vaporization when the plant material inside is directly …

A nice overview of the best grinders for 2018. Grinders are an essential tool for any dry herb enthusiast. They allow the user to quickly and efficiently pick apart and sort their dry herb materials. They are also very simple to operate and typically come in many different shapes, sizes, and styles. With the high popularity of grinders, it is easy to see why there are so many companies looking to cash in on this market. The huge number of options leads many consumers to wonder what is the best h …

How To Shop For Quality Glass Pipes The durability of glass is something that is frequently called into question when people buy a new glass piece. When you buy a glass piece, you want to make sure that it is going to last as long as possible. The first thing to understand is that higher quality glass is going to be more expensive for many reasons. First, it is harder glass takes longer to blow and is more difficult to work with. The second reason is that when glassblowers use higher quality, mo …