(Part 2) Top products from r/Marijuana

I always suggest The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby to any new photographer. Well, actually, I've only had my SLR a couple years, I'm new too.

There are two volumes out, and another being released in August. He explains most everything in terms of how to get a specific shot, and through that you learn what the different settings of your camera can do. It is geared toward SLRs, but most point and shoots also have many of the same settings.

Anyway, good luck!

"Smoke is often exhaled before most of the THC from the smoke in the lungs can be absorbed by the bloodstream. The smoker might not hold the hit for 20 to 30 seconds, exhaling too soon or coughing. Smokers rarely absorb a majority of the THC that is in a toke"

-Robert Conell Clarke, "Hashish". Pg. 270 under the heading "Smoking Efficiency"

People are weary about having smoke in their lungs for a long period of time due to the byproducts of burning plant matter and resins. The science still doesn't make people totally comfortable with it, especially with the hysteria centered around the tobacco - lung cancer links.

Don't take anyone's word for it. Not mine. Not Clarke's.

Do a test for yourself:

Fast from Ganja for a week to clear your head. Wake up and have a good healthy breakfast. Get baked. Smoke a fixed amount in one sitting (however much you like to smoke in a sitting), holding in your tokes for 5 seconds before exhaling. Note the effects. Be sure to save that amount of the same herb for the second part of the experiment.

Fast from Ganja for a week. Wake up and have the same healthy breakfast. Smoke that same fixed amount of the same strain, holding for >20 seconds. Note the effects.

Be sure you do the same things in both sessions. Eat the same foods. Smoke the same strain. Use the same apparatus to smoke from. Your high is greatly influenced by your overall well being, mentally and physically. If you put some nasty ass food in your stomach and then smoke, you can often trigger a not-so-pleasant high.

IME with this experiment the longer I held the hit, the higher i got.

There are also a lot of other ways to get more out of a toke if you're freaked out about lung damage:

PROTIP: Exhaling through the nose is a fantastic way to incorporate the olfactory bulb into the equation. This will also give you different effects and can often induce a lot of non-cannabinoid related, positive psychological effects.

TIPTWO: Don't torch the fuck out of your bowl. Heat destroys THC. Corner it lightly. A light, airy, lungful of smoke will go much farther than a thick, milky, dense hit will. The latter will give you more of an effect due to lack of oxygen than it will from the THC. The lower the temperature that you can heat the herb at, the more effectively you will transfer the THC without destroying it.

In his book Mr Nice, Howard Marks writes about a time when he was caught in a street riot in Hong Kong, while carrying around 2 million dollars in a pair of suitcases. He was too exhausted to carry them any longer, and collapsed sitting on them.

I forget what happened next, but he got away OK in the end. Perhaps the Police offered him a lift to the Hotel? If anyone has the book to hand, do let me know :)

Validate and enhance the experience by reading some literature on the subject.
The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook and
Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life

Both great books that our boss at work picked up for us so we could learn a bit of shit about the stuff that we were selling and the clients that we were selling too.

Language, movies, books, songs, artists, techniques, how-to, events, things-to-do-while-stoned, etc. Great books, particularly the High-Times one but both are really quite good.

/my 2¢

>i honestly found the Lord of the Rings books to be too much of a chore to read.

The Lord of the Rings books are child's play compared to The Silmarillion!

Really dig this [one](http://www.amazon.com/Still-Life-Woodpecker-Tom-Robbins/dp/0553348973/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253576547&sr=1-3"It's never too late to have a happy childhood.").

Marijuana Time

A Falkland's War veteran gets posted to Belize. Not much war going on, but there is industrial quantities of weed. A light read, but very entertaining.

https://www.amazon.com/Reefer-Madness-Larry-Ratso-Sloman/dp/0312195230

Here's the link to the original on Amazon, from the Seventies.

that's a good one, here's my favorite.

You might want to read A Child's Garden of Grass, though some of the advice may be a bit outdated, given the increased potency of modern strains (at least, that's what Ernie Lundquist tells me).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399578986/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Too true and so sad. I'm in the process of reading James W. Loewen's "Lies my teacher told me". It is making me think that government run education, at least when it comes to social topics and history, is a SERIOUS conflict of interest. Generation after generation entering society just to become slaves.

Right now I'm reading Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. In fact I haven't checked, I'm sure there are some recipes I could substitute hemp in.

Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market is probably the best book on understanding why MJ is illegal, while things like alcohol are legal.

"Eric Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation) returns with an exposé about the black market in the United States in Reefer Madness. He details three areas of the underground economy: marijuana, pornography, and illegal immigrant labor. He charts the growth of these industries as part of the country's economy and the hypocrisy of those who rail against these industries and yet spend their money within them. He refers to marijuana and pornography as "two commodities that Americans publicly abhor, privately adore and buy in astonishing amounts." Salon.com says, "Reefer Madness is more of a guided cultural tour, by turns infuriating, depressing and weirdly entertaining, than a polemic."

A classic Carlin rant, but the "fuck everybody" line at the bottom sums up how shallow it is.

If that's true, then the question to me would become how/why did those noble-minded baby boomers who broke so many barriers, did so much good, stopped the Vietnam War (along with a couple million dead Vietnamese!) turn into selfish semi-rightists?

And to me, there's 2 big factors in that: (1) the mass media, owned by the rich and constantly preaching capitalism and "greed is good," and (2) Reagan's seizure of power in the 1980 "October Surprise" presidential election.

Those 2 factors today are still impacting us.