Sounds like some bullshit, right? Wrong. The title of this post is the title of a rational and well-balanced article written for Time Magazine. The article considers the health effects, both positive and negative, of marijuana and manages to paint our good herb with a light mostly positive. It’s time for change. Remember, if you live in California then there is currently a bill in queue that would legalize and tax marijuana. Look down a few posts for more details.

Have you ever heard of those mythical publications out of the sixties where spacey LSD-dosing scientists and essayists talk about drugs in the most official way possible? I had too, and today I found a glorious archive containing every volume of the ’60s publication The Psychedelic Review. Choice articles (PDF) include “The Pharmacology of Psychedelic Drugs,” “Four Psilocybin Experiences,” as well as “LSD and Sexuality.” The last one has a pretty trippy drawing on the last page, and in fact, most of the later issues are filled with all kinds of trippy content. Anyway, this place is awesome so go check it out. Leave any comments you may have below.

I first came across this article a while ago, but the contents remain fresh in my mind. This is one story that you’ll want to read all the way though. The One-Man Drug Company profiles a young white coke dealer as he makes a living (about $5000 a week, tax free) the hard way in Manhattan.

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From the article:

Every day he tells himself the same thing. You are doing nothing wrong. It plays through his mind on repeat, keeping his nerves in check. You have no reason to worry. Tonight, a Friday, he is walking down a cobblestone street in Soho, hands wedged in his leather jacket, his posture slump-shouldered, as if he’s curling in on himself. In his right-hand pocket, there is a plastic bag containing numerous smaller plastic bags—“tickets,” he calls them—filled with either a gram or gram and three quarters of cocaine. The smaller ones he calls “chiquitas.” They cost $60. The big ones, known simply as “big ones,” go for $100. He is heading to see a customer, a twiggy, doe-eyed woman who asked to meet outside an art gallery. He thumbs through the Baggies, able to gauge the weight with his fingertips, and secures her order in his fist, all the while humming along to the voice in his head.

My experience with vaporizing cannabis goes all the way back to when I started using it in the first place. I had a crude lightbulb vape—kinda like this one here:

but slightly more advanced with vinyl tubing and a water filtration chamber. After a couple months of regular smoking with the lightbulb device, I decided that a convection-style vaporizer was needed. (more…)

This article was written for the site by Lotus, who you may remember as the author of the article on driving while high. What you are about to read is a really, really bad idea. You should not attempt to do anything described in this article unless you want to die. With that out of the way…

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One of the greatest things about weed that I’m sure all smokers can attest to is how it makes almost every activity better in some way. From the sedentary lifestyle of sitting in front of the TV or computer screen to getting outside and exercising, everything just seems better. And, to most of us, we can do these things without much sacrifice to skill level or reflexes. 

So, with this in mind, I decided to combine my two loves: marijuana and motocross. To protect my identity, I won’t release the information about my bike. But know that I’m an intermediate level rider (to the layman, this is, in MX racing class terms, the level just under pro or expert) who has over ten years of riding and racing experience under his belt. My bike is a finely tuned race machine, and under inexperienced hands it has the capability to cause serious harm.

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by Lb13

Puff Puff Pass—This means take two puffs then pass it to the next guy. This is usually said when someone takes a bunch of tokes without sharing once. Usually everyone has a understanding that you take two puffs then you pass it to the right, but if someone violates that understanding someone will let him know by saying ”puff puff pass!”

Don’t Fuck Up The Rotation—Fucking up the rotation is never a good thing to do in any crowd. This usually happens when a person passing is too high to remember who’s next to get the blunt and passes it to the wrong person, at which point a good Samaritan will correct him by saying ”Don’t fuck up the rotation!”

You Touched It, You Hit It—This phrase in stoner culture means that if you touch the bong blunt pipe or joint then you MUST take a puff. This usually happens when there is a circle of pot heads standing around getting high off the same blunt joint or pipe and there is someone else standing there who doesn’t wish to smoke and he grabs the blunt to pass it to the next guy. Little does he know the next guy won’t accept it unless he takes a puff because ‘’he touched it, now he must hit it.’

I like these phrases because they were formed so everyone gets high and no one is left out. That sort of thought process is what sets potheads aside from users of hard drugs. Although these phrases are sometimes found used in reference to other recreational substances they are almost exclusively used within the stoner culture. 

If you have any thoughts, opinions or other phrases feel free to post a comment.

Reading this could very well keep you out of jail.

It sucks to get busted. The above document, which was written by VladTemplar, tells you exactly what to do when the police attempt a violation of your rights. Have you ever wondered where the best place to store your drugs while driving is? Wonder no more (the trunk). You will also be instructed on how to deal with police who bang loudly on your door when you’re just trying to toke and listen to a little music. More advanced topics such as search warrants and the ol’ stop and frisk are also covered.

What you’re about to read was written by our own dear member Lotus. You absolutely, under no circumstances, should in any way perform the actions described here. Now that the obvious is out of the way, I’ll tell you that Lotus is a very intense automotive enthusiast; he just loves cars.

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I should file this piece under Humor. The author makes one valid point (torch lighters are good) but then completely undermines his entire cause by saying “No, don’t buy those. They’re too expensive. Buy cheap lighters.”

At least my bowl gets roasted every time I exert a minimum of effort to roll the striking wheel on my Bic.

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In response to the Bic essay:

As a frequent marijuana user for the last few years and daily smoker for the last two, I have dealt with my share of lighters. There are many different styles, ranging from the common flint and butane, to the more expensive and more personal Zippo, and finally the expensive torch lighters which can cost up to and well over $100. With such an overwhelming amount of lighters, some people just give up and pick the cheapest and most popular of them, but this may not be the best choice.

If pot smoking is your thing, a Zippo probably isn’t. They are too expensive, and unless you smoke blunts and joints every single time, a Zippo wont be very appropriate most of the time. Sure, it is possible to spark up a bowl with a wick. But why, at 3 am when you’ve been smoking since 7, and those last few shots you took are reacting quite nicely with the vicodin [Editor's note: Try to stay away from drinking while taking drugs containing large amounts of acetaminophen, which is the case with Vicodin. You could die.]. Would you put yourself through that much effort to light your bowl?

No, you need something that is useful in all situations, and this is the torch lighter. These lighters can be very stylish and many are made for exotic car owners to light their cigars with. They can range from the reasonable $40 to the, well, to whatever you can afford. These are enticing they last forever since they’re refillable, they look really cool, nobody else will have one, and you know it’s going to work every single time. Also, you can smoke Salvia with it. [Editor's note: You can also smoke salvia with a regular Bic. I have done it.]

Unfortunately, unless you are the most responsible stoner ever, you will lose it, or someone will steal it. You can have one at the house for personal use, if you never have people over, or if you trust your friends to not drunken or highly put it in their pocket. This is why we can’t have nice things.

So we must settle for the cheap disposable type. To me, if you’re going to cheap out on the lighter, you might as well go as cheap as possible. My lighter of choice? Scripto (the normal sized one, flint strike). I know stoners all over the world are warming up their keyboards to berate me for this, but hear me out.

—I cannot keep a lighter to save my goddamn life. I don’t know if the entire world of pot smokers is out to get me, but I rarely ever come away with extra lighters, and I always lose them. A pack of Bics might last me a week, and I’ll have to go get some more. This doesn’t happen, however, with my Scripto.

—I take one Scripto to a party, I leave with the same Scripto. Nobody wants to steal a Scripto, and at the end of the day when my friends both thought they had red lighters, I know exactly which translucent purple lighter is mine. [Editor's note: before I was enlightened enough to buy bics, I l got my Scriptos stolen all the damn time.]

—They are so cheap, how can you afford NOT to try them? Really though, they are cheap. I think an 8 pack costs less than 4 dollars. The last Bic I bought was over 2 dollars. That’s 4 for the price of 1 Bic. If you don’t believe at least 4 out of that package are going to work, anecdotal evidence is against you. In the last few packages at least 5 of the 8 lighters have worked for me. The bad ones weed themselves out early, and the good ones last till the very last drop of delicious butane.

—You can totally make the flame like a foot long.* This sells me on the lighter. If you are a respectable stoner, it would sell you, too. 

—Lotus

*I don’t recommend modifying the product to make a larger flame. However, if you do and it doesn’t strike, use a different one to light it with.

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Based on this story by the New York Times about salvia. I’m sure that most of you, by virtue of the fact that you chose to visit this site, will probably get the point of the story immediately. Others, however, may not have done much thinking about—or have a vested interest in—US drug policy. Let these people read this story.

Originally written by a person known as Phyzzle.

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