Now that we’ve talked about the process of dabbing in general, we can get down to the specifics of the concentrates dabbing uses. But what, exactly, are concentrates and how do they get to be so awesome? We’ll answer that in the next section. So we mentioned the fact that butane hash oil is a concentrate with a pretty powerful kick. In fact, the extreme potency was the reason this new process was given the name dabbing…because just a dab’ll do ya. Now multiply that high by four and you can quickly see why the difference in potency is so important. Think about how high you got last time you smoked your favorite strain of Girl Scout Cookies. That’s a huge difference! Concentrates are three to four times more potent than regular buds that are smoked or ingested. Regular herb – Between 15 and 20% on average.But let’s take a moment to touch on what makes dabbing so special…and so controversial: butane hash oil.īHO is a cannabis concentrate (again, we’ll get to that in a minute) that can exhibit an average potency much higher than the herb you smoke. Sure, they both fly, but that’s where the similarities end.ĭabbing gets its name from the tiny dabs of concentrate (BHO or otherwise) that are used in combination with the oil rig to get high. So yeah, you could say it’s kind of like smoking, but that would be like saying that a Boeing 747 is kind of like the Wright Brother’s first plane. What Is Dabbing?ĭabbing is the process of heating butane hash oil, or BHO (we’ll get to that in a minute), using a special rig (a bong equipped for the purpose also known as an oil rig), and then inhaling the resultant vapor. But before we get to that, let’s delve into dabbing so we know what this method of getting high is all about. It’s in dabbing that we first encounter the questions surrounding shatter vs. Now, though, a new method of consumption is gaining in popularity: dabbing.
So smoking and ingesting have been the primary means of marijuana consumption since the very beginning. the early 20th century), we damn near perfected the development of the pot brownie. Though weed tea never really caught on in the United States, in modern times (a.k.a. In fact, weed tea has been, and still is, a common cannabis staple in many east and southeast Asian countries. It’s not hard to imagine an ancient Chinese emperor plucking the leaves off a cannabis plant to steep as a tea for the psychoactive and medicinal benefits it holds. We don’t know for sure if it was ingested or smoked first, but we do know that cannabis was already in use in China between 10,000 and 2,000 B.C. Ingesting marijuana like food (oregano?) may have been the way cannabis was originally discovered. In fact, after consuming some prehistoric bud, I wouldn’t be surprised if some mile-high caveman had the bright idea to invent the wheel (we’ve all had those strokes of “genius”, right?) because he needed a faster way to make his munchie runs. It’s an age-old, tried-and-trusted method that probably originated soon after the caveman figured out he could make fire. Smoking marijuana has been around for a long time. wax, not the omnipresence of Jerry Garcia and his cohorts-we’ve put together this article that outlines the difference between cannabis concentrates and talks about why they are so great.īut before we can talk about the present, we need to talk about the past and how marijuana consumption morphed into what it is today. The question has become so ubiquitous it recently topped the list of most-common questions (right above the long-time king, “Who are the Grateful Dead and why are they following me?”). At this point, we’re waiting for the question to arrive via psychic waves. wax-what’s the deal?” We get asked that question, in one form or another, at least twenty times a day via face-to-face conversations, email, fax (yes, fax), text message, IM, and every other form of conventional and electronic communication you can think of.
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