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However, a 2000 NORML-MAPS cannabis study found that "water pipes filter out more psychoactive THC than they do other tars, thereby requiring users to smoke more to reach their desired effect". [8] In the study, smoke from cannabis supplied by the NIDA was drawn through a number of smoking devices and analyzed. This study looked at the tar to ...
It is a type of water pipe with a hose or drawtube for inhaling; the water cools and filters the smoke. The hose provides additional airspace for cooling. A screen embedded in the crater protects against drawing in burning particles to clog the interior. The marijuana is finely cut and placed on top of a clay cone, called "kutchie". [1]
Bongs are an example of user-specific paraphernalia, in this case for the use of cannabis. A bong (also known as a water pipe) is a filtration device generally used for smoking cannabis, tobacco, or other herbal substances. [10] Bongs have been in use by the Hmong in Laos and Thailand, as well all over Africa, for centuries. [11]
In the 1860s antiquaries attempted to date clay pipe bowls by their evolving shapes and sizes. [3] The bowls of ceremonial pipes used in some indigenous American nations are often carved from red pipestone or catlinite, [4] a fine-grained easily worked stone of a rich red color of the Coteau des Prairies, west of the Big Stone Lake in South Dakota.
Pipes have been fashioned from an assortment of materials including briar, clay, ceramic, corncob, glass, meerschaum, metal, gourd, stone, wood, bog oak and various combinations thereof, most notably, the classic English calabash pipe. The size of a pipe, particularly the bowl, depends largely on what is intended to be smoked in it.
In India and Jamaica, the most commonly used pipe is the chillum.; in the UAE, midwakh; in Morocco, sebsi. [citation needed] A one-hitter is a device used for a single serving (usually 25 mg). [citation needed] Chalice is a cannabis smoking pipe used most often by members of the Jamaican Rastafari movement.
Modern papers are manufactured in a range of sizes from a wide variety of materials including rice, hemp, and flax, and are also available in liquorice and other flavored varieties. [ 3 ] Joint size can vary, [ 4 ] typically containing between 0.25 and 1 g ( 1 ⁄ 112 and 1 ⁄ 28 oz) net weight of cannabis.
For example, in Willem Buytewech’s painting The Merry Company (circa 1620–1622), there are three young men and a woman sitting around a table with a tobacco pipe lying in the middle. [1] Additionally, in artist Adriaen Brouwer ’s portrait The Smokers (1636), he too was interested in the pipe.