Sensible Cannabis UseSome tips intended to keep enthusiastic tokers healthy and happy
- Try to set an example for others. Be a Functioning Pothead.
- If you consume cannabis, then moderate occasional use is safest.
- Less is More. Smoke small amounts of good marijuana. The less you smoke, the less you need. Try to have at least one or two days per week of not consuming cannabis. Limit being stoned to a few hours per day, and ensure that your cannabis use does not impair health, family, employment and education.
- Try to avoid lung damage. Most of the harm related to smoking cannabis comes from the heat, the tars that result from burning plant matter, and the smoke itself.
- Try other ways of ingesting cannabis, such as eating it, making tea, or using a vaporiser that gently heats the herb to release resins without burning.
- Deep tokes and long breath duration are harmful to the lungs. THC is absorbed quickly, and the longer you hold in the more tar absorbed.
- Water pipes and bongs cool the smoke, filter out solids, and absorb some of the most harmful tars in the water. Bongs can make the smoke very smooth, so avoid inhaling too deeply. Ensure that droplets of water do not come up as well. Replace bong water each time and regularly sterilise your pipe or bong. Meningitis and other diseases can be transmitted through saliva, so don't share spit on joints or pipe mouthpieces. Try using your hands like a chillum to hold the joint.
- Cannabis is best avoided by pregnant and breastfeeding women, or women who might soon become pregnant.
- People with a history of severe mental illness should try to reduce their cannabis consumption to a level agreed with their clinician, or try to avoid cannabis altogether.
- Mixing cannabis with alcohol can increase intoxication and make you feel more out of it than you intended. The anti-nausea effect of cannabis can mean people may drink excessively.
- Mixing cannabis with tobacco means more smoke damage to your lungs, and may make you become nicotine dependent.
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