I’m thinking about getting my first hand pipe and have been looking around. When I roll a joint, I always roll with charcoal filters, and I’d like to keep using filters when smoking a pipe. Now, this is the absolute standard for tobacco pipes, but for weed bowl pipes, it’s apparently not?

I don’t get it, it filters out harmful stuff, it’s cheap, easy, already normal for joints, but somehow, no nice glass bowl pipe I find has a mouthpiece that allows for charcoal filters.

Am I dumb and there’s a trick to using filters with those pipes I’m not getting?

  • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    If you don’t want to breathe in harmful combustion products, your best bet is not producing any. I suggest you consider buying a vaporizer. And I don’t mean the concentrate pens, but dry herb vaporizers.
    Since you’re not burning your flower you can actually taste the various terpenes and it’s much easier on the lungs.

    • GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely. You have to be so careful with the extraction methods and diluent agents when it comes to vaping concentrates (that includes regulated vape carts–not just black market carts).

      [Cannabis] extracts are not diluted in propylene glycol or glycerol like nicotine due to their hydrophobic properties. Instead, various forms of oils including vegetable oils, terpenes, and tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E acetate) have been reported as diluents. In most reported cases of EVALI, additional flavoring additives are also added to products.

      Although many of these diluent agents and flavorings have been “generally recognized as safe” for oral ingestion by the FDA, recent research shows that when heated to form an aerosol and inhaled, conditions including bronchitis, bronchiolitis, acute hypoxic respiratory distress, lipoid-associated pneumonia, and pneumonitis may result. [1]

      The terpenes used in vape carts to dilute and reintroduce flavor and aroma (which is lost in some extraction methods, like BHO) also produces harmful byproducts when vaped. [2]

      Another problem with vape pens and e-cigs is the cheap atomizers/coils used. There have been confirmed cases of these coils/atomizers leeching heavy metals into the vapor produced.[3]

      Dry herb vaping is the only medically endorsed inhalation method of marijuana consumption. Plus you get to keep your already vaped bud (AVB) to make edibles! If health is truly a concern for people, then dry herb vaping and edibles are really the only options. But that’s not to detract from the risk mitigation approach. I will very occasionally smoke a joint or a bowl. No more bong rips for me ever again tho.

      • Psychonaut1969@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Rosin extracts produced by heat pressing buds or hash through a filter bag doesn’t use any solvents. Vaporizing it off a hot nail/banger(dabbing with an enail) is the way to go w concentrates.