Hash-Pipe Smoking Health Issue

Hi!

Been smoking a four-inch long brass and aluminium "hash pipe" lately, after years of smoking scoobies, and reckon pipes of the kind just described, may be too harmful to the throat and oesophegoose (?) in terms of the heat hitting the back of the throat, burning it etc., to be used, especially as a replacement for joints, as joints often are, smoked often, smoking pipes too regularly seems likely to be very bad.

As an Issue of "Ethics", i.e., by doing what we can to reduce as much as possible, any harmful effects caused by smoking marijuana comes the question for Nimbin's shops to, sort-of, stop selling them.

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Begs the question, "What do we replace pipes with?"

How about a modernised, scientificly designed bong?

The water cools, yes. And catches the crappy bits.

But are messy and inconvenient to travel with, from park-bench to park-bench.

Design, guys, design!?

The classic design for bongs sucks, I reckon.

The top, mouth hole is too big, so spoils the unsucked smoke in the chamber when the air mixes with it. The classic "Hooker" smoked in old Arabia, has the benefit of having the mouth hole, on the end of a much more convenient flexible hose, a mere four or five millimetres in diameter. So the smoker pops their thumb over the hole between puffs keeping the smoke "pure" if-I-may, for the next, and the next and-on.

So why not adapt this small mouth hole design to the new pipe?

Hmmmm? It's already got one maxxxx?

Hmmm? The problem is the distance from the heat source, the lighter and the cone, to the mouth, tongue, and throat?

Sam of the HEMP Bar has small ex-perfiume bottles set-up with 2-or-3mm dia., plastic pipe a la an hooker, in bong fashion in the top, passing through a rubber stopper etc.

Small, convenient, but not the best finish. But the concept may be a big improvement on these little pipes. And mine little $5 pipe is the longer of those available.

An Issue, of Health Care of our Customers?

Of Ethics?

"Alternative" doesn't necessarily mean forgetting "Ethics". It isn't such a big thing to do, to stop selling these small pipes.

It may be however, that most buy them for the trip, or such, with their ol' Faithful monster biong at home.

But a loosely designed monster, I'll bet.............

Someone here in Nimbin surely, with a lathe and a bit of brass rod etc, could design a mini-hooker-type bong, like these ones Sam has on the counter for sale ($20)?

Might sell for $15 to $20 each, and about $2 to $3 make. Maybe $5.

The Medical profession are down on smoking, especially when its trumpeted as "medicinal", so it stands to reason that we of the smoking brigade do everything to curb as many unhealthy aspects of the act and art and Spiritual Event of chugging on marijuana, that we can.

Ummm..., Issues of holding the "flame" of the lighter on the cone only to light the mull and NOT while one is drawing in the smoke, is cooler of course, but some mull doesn't burn that well, does it?

Hmmmmm?