Is 'Dabbing' the Crack of Pot?

[Taylor]

Interesting article. I've never tried dabbing or any types of concentrates!

[USbongLord]

Dabbing s over. Get a vape pen...

[redeyezman]

Worst. Title. Ever.

No, because grass is not comparable to powder that can cause heart failure.

[geekymonkey]

I have to admit this hype just gets more and more stupid to me. Wax is/can only be about 5 times stronger than weed. It can't be more than 100%thc. So, no, it's not like crack at all- it just enables people to smoke a lot more a lot faster. Weed still can't kill you, but idiots getting super high and then going to the hospital is unfortunate for the legalization movement.

[Uncle Ron]

I have to admit this hype just gets more and more stupid to me. Wax is/can only be about 5 times stronger than weed. It can't be more than 100%thc. So, no, it's not like crack at all- it just enables people to smoke a lot more a lot faster. Weed still can't kill you, but idiots getting super high and then going to the hospital is unfortunate for the legalization movement.

+1...
The story can be summarized in one word - rubbish.
Let me break it down to its simplest form - bud has plant material and trichomes, remove the plant material and what remains is hash, regardless of how it's removed from the plant material. Butane, Hexane, CO2, ice, water, etc..., do not change the potency of the trichome. Alcohol analogy - rum and coke versus straight rum... the coke doesn't change the properties of the rum, primary purpose is taste and watering-down effect. Have one drink containing the mix and one pure, both using 2 fluid ounces of rum. How much rum did I drink? Next.... logic perhaps, makes sense though...
So an argument is being made for or against the use of a mixer, in the context of the story, not removing the trichomes from the plant material. The Dutch authorities have outlawed the sale of these concentrates, and they are wrong because all they have done is outlaw a form of hash. I understand the argument ref. residual chemicals that may harm the consumer (poorly made), and to some extent I agree.
As drinking rum straight isn't for everybody, so to may it be said about hash in general, concentrates in particular. Scooby snack for thought...
Happy Dabbing...
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[ohm sweet ohm]

I was highly amused by the whole affair at this 420.. I assume people actually smuggled this cannabis oil into Amsterdam?! Is it some sort of dick waving contest for growers? Smuggling cannabis INTO Amsterdam? Something the Dutch classify as 'Class A' / hard drugs! Beyond belief!
Maybe next time, someone could donate some to DAB on tutti's skin cancer?

[USbongLord]

Some of us wanna get high while we are visiting here's my dick

[Panog]

I have to admit this hype just gets more and more stupid to me. Wax is/can only be about 5 times stronger than weed. It can't be more than 100%thc. So, no, it's not like crack at all- it just enables people to smoke a lot more a lot faster. Weed still can't kill you, but idiots getting super high and then going to the hospital is unfortunate for the legalization movement.

Well I don't wanna defend this article but if crack is dangerous it's because you can smoke it and it gets you really high quick and without nose bleeding. Now if bho allows you to get high super fast by vaporizing the thc it kinda like the crack of weed

[USbongLord]

bobby black is in it for women..nothing else..we met him,he was too worried about which miss hightimes he was gonna bang that night..all he talked about was the girls hes got thru the magazine that wanna be miss high times that he bangs and dumps...real no nothing ...no respect ,total scum bag...anything he says carries no weight

[Weedus]

I never did this Butane stuff,but there is a good Method what you can do with Weed-Garbage,branch remains inside the Bud and Plants.When you for example Gather branches and Leaves from close to the bud for 1 Year,you can put it into a Bowl,and fill it up with Iso-Propanol,which is the type of alcohol used to desinfect Wounds,the medicine use grade.
It will solve the THC from the Plantstuff and then fully fly away into the Air,leaving golden brown honey looking stuff.
Of course you get much more and better when using Buds instead of Garbage

[Uncle Ron]

big time, i forgot to mention (so did the author of the story) that crack cocaine is HIGHLY addictive, cannabis isn't.
Overdose on cannabis? Sure, some call it experiencing a "Whitey", but there are those who cannot tolerate THC/CBD/etc..., and are the ones most likely found in emergency rooms.
When a typical stoner experiences overdosing of weed, they stuff their faces with food and drink, then go to sleep.
I fully support educating the masses about cannabis, but the "Reefer Madness" and "scared straight" approach failed decades ago.
My take is that we in the cannabis community haven't begun to see what will happen next. Opponents will be pulling out all of the oldies and goodies, and probably make up some more along the way.
Happy dabbing, if that's your thing...
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[Uncle Ron]

I never did this Butane stuff,but there is a good Method what you can do with Weed-Garbage,branch remains inside the Bud and Plants.When you for example Gather branches and Leaves from close to the bud for 1 Year,you can put it into a Bowl,and fill it up with Iso-Propanol,which is the type of alcohol used to desinfect Wounds,the medicine use grade.
It will solve the THC from the Plantstuff and then fully fly away into the Air,leaving golden brown honey looking stuff.
Of course you get much more and better when using Buds instead of Garbage

Why would you chose to use a poison such as Iso?
Neutral grain alcohol like Ethyl (the drinkable alcohol) is much safer, not to mention that the residue can be drunk.
If anyone rationalizes that cost is more important than health, no need to explain any further. Says so much...
Happy dabbing...
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[thompaw]

bobby black is in it for women

High Times is sort of like practice pornography... stands to reason he might act like Mr. Hefner.

The one time I tasted it, I had to wait 15 minutes while my friend explained that this is the future of ingesting, not just marijuana but also tobacco, fixed the pipe he was using to melt this concentrate. It was some sort of push button, battery operated vaporizer (?) that looked like a ballpoint pen which had fallen apart. Once he managed to fix the pipe he then worked on loading the pipe with a dab of this stuff, which now seems a little too complex to me, compared to just smoking, because now one needs an extra dental instrument to handle the wax and load the pipe.

Maybe this will be the future, as he claims, I doubt it though as the time it took to fix and load this thing, I could have smoked a bowl and an after cigarette, happy in a buzz and a satisfied nicotine addiction.

In any event, I found the taste to be lacking in anything pleasant, more chemically and the burst of high to be fleeting.

[Slip & Sal]

Isopropyl alcohol does not cause an anion gap acidosis (in which a lowered blood serum pH causes depletion of bicarbonate anion) unlike ethanol and methanol.

From Wikipedia.

then,

Ethyl Alcohol Rubbing Alcohol

The other type of rubbing alcohol consists of 97.5-100% denatured ethyl alcohol or ethanol with water. Ethyl alcohol naturally is less toxic than isopropyl alcohol. In fact, it is the alcohol that naturally occurs in wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages. However, the alcohol is denatured or made undrinkable in rubbing alcohol, both to control its use as an intoxicant and because the alcohol has not been purified to make it safe to drink. In fact, in the US, additives make it as toxic as isopropyl alcohol.

from http://chemistry.about.com/b/2013/01/27 ... lcohol.htm

I think they are both pretty bad.

and just for reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetaldehyde

[sensismiler]

I never did this Butane stuff,but there is a good Method what you can do with Weed-Garbage,branch remains inside the Bud and Plants.When you for example Gather branches and Leaves from close to the bud for 1 Year,you can put it into a Bowl,and fill it up with Iso-Propanol,which is the type of alcohol used to desinfect Wounds,the medicine use grade.
It will solve the THC from the Plantstuff and then fully fly away into the Air,leaving golden brown honey looking stuff.
Of course you get much more and better when using Buds instead of Garbage

Why would you chose to use a poison such as Iso?
Neutral grain alcohol like Ethyl (the drinkable alcohol) is much safer, not to mention that the residue can be drunk.
If anyone rationalizes that cost is more important than health, no need to explain any further. Says so much...
Happy dabbing...
...

Although I agree, its very hard to get grain alcohol here. I dont use iso for the reasons you mention but if I wanted to do an alcohol wash it would have to be with iso or another non drinkable solvent