How to Smoke Cannabis Flower: Steps, Dose, Methods

How to Smoke Cannabis Flower

Grind the flower. Load 0.25 g to 0.5 g into a pipe, or roll it into a joint. Touch the flame to the edge of the material. Inhale for 2 to 3 seconds. Wait 15 minutes before the next hit.

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What You Need

• Dried cannabis flower, 0.25 g to 0.5 g per session
• Grinder
• Glass pipe, rolling papers, bong, or one-hitter
• Lighter or hemp wick
• Water for a bong

Steps

1. Grind the flower to pieces 2 mm to 4 mm wide. Ground flower burns with an even draw. Whole buds burn uneven.
2. Pack the bowl to 70 percent full. Loose packing lets air pass. Tight packing blocks the draw.
3. Hold the flame 1 cm above the bowl and pull. Touch the flame to the edge, not the center. This is cornering. It saves the rest of the bowl for later hits.
4. Inhale for 2 to 3 seconds. Pull smoke into the mouth first, then the lungs. A full lung hold is not needed.
5. Hold for 1 to 3 seconds. Most THC transfers to the lungs in the first seconds. Longer holds add tar but little THC.
6. Exhale. Wait 15 minutes. Inhaled effects start in 5 to 10 minutes, peak at 15 to 30 minutes, and last 1 to 3 hours.

Dose

Flower in US stores tests between 15 percent and 30 percent THC. One gram at 20 percent THC holds 200 mg THC. Combustion destroys part of it. Absorbed THC is about 10 to 25 percent of the total. A 0.3 g bowl at 20 percent THC holds about 60 mg THC in the plant material. One to two hits is a start point for a new user. Wait 15 minutes between hits.

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Methods

Joint

A 0.5 g joint with 20 percent THC holds about 100 mg THC. Paper adds smoke. Part of the joint burns in open air between puffs.

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Pipe

A glass pipe runs 10 cm to 15 cm long. Smoke from a short pipe is hot. A longer stem cools it.

Bong

Water cools the smoke and traps some particles. It does not remove THC in full.

One-Hitter

Holds 0.05 g to 0.1 g. One hit, no leftover.

Dry Herb Vaporizer

Heats flower to 315 F to 430 F. This is below combustion. THC boils at about 315 F. The output is vapor, not smoke. It carries fewer combustion byproducts.

Heat and Combustion

Flower burns above 450 F. A lighter flame runs 1,300 F to 2,000 F. Smoke contains tar, carbon monoxide, and irritants. Combustion creates these. Low-heat vapor does not.

Safety

Cannabis is illegal under US federal law. State law varies. Legal sales require age 21 or older in most states. Smoke from any plant harms airways. Chronic bronchitis and cough link to regular cannabis smoking. Do not drive after use. Carbon monoxide in smoke raises blood levels.