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I have this vaporizer and absolutely love it. I started smoking cannabis when i turned 25, and I'm now 30 so it's all relatively new to me as well.

This is the third vaporizer I've owned and without a doubt the best one. My previous two were "Da Buddha" and the original "Pax". The pax is a phenomenally portable vaporizer and easily fits in your pocket but just didn't hit hard enough for my liking. "Da Buddha" hit well but was a bit finicky as far as the set up goes. The "Plenty" the one I linked above is super simple to use and is manufactured by a quality company in germany.

Simply grind your herb, put said herb in chamber, plug in, turn on, and inhale once the little "oven light" turns off. My wife and I usually pass it back and forth 5-6 times per session and we get 3 sessions per filled oven. Cleaning is as simple as taking a few pieces apart and rinsing with alcohol.

I chose this particular vape after reading several pages and pages of review lists. One review that sold me on it and I agree with said "If you are a daily smoker that's worried a vape won't hit hard enough, this is the vape for you." It's vapor so it's far less harsh than smoking from a pipe or bong and while I no longer have a nasty cough throughout the day, it WILL still make me cough while vaping.

All that being said I still smoke from a pipe if I'm walking out the door and don't want to wait the 3 minutes for the plenty to heat up, or I use THIS AWESOME DUGOUT which stashes its own mini lighter (I especially use this when golfing or driving), and lastly, for parties and social gatherings and watching sunsets i enjoy a nice pre-rolled cone, it's just easier than rolling a joint AND it has the little filter built-in for easier passing and smoking without burning ones lips.

My in-laws switched to cannabis a few years ago because my FIL was drinking way too much and it was taking a toll on his body. He'd been using cheap, no-name vapes and buying replacements when they broke. I finally convinced him to get a Plenty like mine because it has a three year warranty and this one will last longer than all the cheap ones he keeps buying.

I hope I helped. Please let me know if you have any other questions. This link is a good source for understanding vaporization. Oh and lastly, if you don't want a corded vape like my plenty, the same company makes two portable vapes as well with the same quality. One is more discreet and portable than the other. Regardless, I encourage you to do your own research and read reviews so you can find a vape that suits you.

I'm not a chemist; I'm currently studying ChemE at university. I'm also the "science mod" over on /r/trees, so I think I can help out a bit with this one.

The science behind cannabis and how it works is extremely interesting, but it won't help you with 99% of Biochemistry.

Everything we know about cannabis can be learned pretty quickly, provided you have the backgrounds in chemistry, biology, and preferably a bit of pharmacology.

What you can is do is study drugs and their functions as a whole to supplement and enhance your studies in biochemistry; I know that it's granted me a new appreciation for the human body and the processes that regulate it. These fields are vast and expanding at an astonishing rate.

The field of pharmacology is huge, but in a nutshell you can break it into pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. They focus on effects and the relations between dosage and response (dose response curves, etc.) as well as the mechanisms through which the drug is processed and how the drug passes through the body, respectively.

In short, pharmacokinetics studies what the body does to a drug, while pharmacodynamics studies what the drug does to your body.

As a Biochemistry major, these topics will likely be right up your alley. You'll still have to do the mundane, but perhaps some background along these lines will provide you with a new perspective on the processes you are studying in class.

If this sounds like your thing, I'd recommend the following text, provided you already have a good grip on molecular biology and a little electrochemistry: Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience

If you like this text or you just want something to supplement it, Caltech, easily one of the top research universities for this field, offers a course taught by Dr. Henry Lester via Coursera, here.

It's a highly informative course that pairs very well with the text I linked above. You'll touch on everything from drug addiction to recreational drugs to the different receptors and how they are activated.

It's not active right now and I'm not sure when the next session will be, but you can go onto Coursera and watch Professor Lester's lectures which are, by far, the most integral part of the course. I went through it last session (January - February) and I was very satisfied with both the material and the way it was presented.

Tl;dr: You can supplement your classroom material with all sorts of interesting studies related to drugs, but if you're not interested in the material you're studying in class at all, it may be time to rethink your field. You can't tie everything to drugs, but you can use the study of drugs to enhance your appreciation for the "macro" systems you're studying.

He has some interesting thoughts and I'm sure that the perpetuation of marijuana's illegality certainly has something to do with industry profits, but I think it's a hefty claim to say that "marijuana is illegal because anyone can grow it"...which is a simplified version of what I hear him saying.

"The Marijuana Conviction" goes into intimate detail regarding the intricate history of marijuana's legal status in the United States. If there were strong industrial influences on Harry Anslinger's drug policies or the revitalization of these policies under Nixon then they certainly aren't mentioned strongly in this book, if I'm not mistaken. Rather, the book describes the ways in which marijuana was demonized and considered extremely harmful and how this perpetuated it's illegality.

I have a second argument as well: I think it's a red herring to claim that an industry could not make money off of marijuana. If the argument is that marijuana is "easy to grow" therefore it is non-profitable then why do companies get by selling things like potatoes or carrots (I leave corn out of the argument because it is heavily subsidized). The answer is: because people might not have the space or the inclination to grow these products. I'd love to grow weed, but even if it were legal I would probably pay someone who really knows what they are doing to grow something truly dank for me. Besides, the marijuana industry seems healthy in The Netherlands.

So I think Chomsky is a little off the mark, here. I think what he says, yes, does have a grain of truth, but I really think he is delivering what he thinks his audience wants to hear. Which, admittedly, is the mark of a great speaker.

I started with 100 bucks bought 4 t8 shop lights from home depot, 2 pieces of plywood, and 4 5 gallon buckets. Used organic miracle grow and was in business.
I got like 4 ounces of bud from that investment, but it was a pain too use and I had so many problems, that the 2nd and 3rd harvests; were so bad I was dry for 3 months.

But I've learned a lot since than if you have the money, these items will save you the bullshit that i went through.

600w grow light $200

[Carbon Air Filter]
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0052ZPMAG/ref=oh_details_o09_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) $175

Some Bubble pack insulation at home depot $50-100

[General Organics]
(http://www.amazon.com/General-Hydroponics-Box-Starter-Kit/dp/B004PS4B08/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367524539&sr=8-1&keywords=General+Organics) $40 starter box will last one cycle

these should get you through your first grow np. and I've already recouped all of the money I've spent on these items with the first harvest, I was paying 350 an ounce before hand to a dealer and now for way pennies on the dollar I have the dankest dank around and it's fucking awesome fucking awesome.

Reading is ok but once you get started you'll realize that most things people post are bs and the best way to learn it is to just do it, and experiment on your own; most things look much harder than they actually are.

I feel so liberated now that I can produce my own and the money that you save omfg the money you save.

Milton Erickson was the greatest therapist of the 20th century. Contact his foundation to hook up with a worldclass therapist, dedicated to helping your son, as opposed to a therapist who wants to stretch out the therapy to as many profitable sessions as possible. https://www.erickson-foundation.org/institutes/
''As all passionate endeavors, the Milton H. Erickson Foundation began with a dream.

In 1974, a young, earnest psychologist named Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. had a noble aspiration. He wanted to hold an educational meeting of mental health professionals. For six years, Dr. Zeig, along with other colleagues, trained and mentored under Milton H. Erickson M. D., the world’s foremost authority on hypnosis. Dr. Erickson never charged his students, so to express his gratitude and to offer Dr. Erickson an opportunity to witness the tremendous impact he had made in the field, Dr. Zeig organized the first Congress. As plans were underway, the need to establish a more formal non-profit educational foundation was recognized. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation was incorporated October 29, 1979. Unfortunately, Dr. Erickson died nine months before the Congress but was able to appreciate that 750 had already registered. The Congress, held in December of 1980, attracted more than 2,000 and was the largest meeting ever held on the topic of hypnosis.

Over the next 30-plus years, the Foundation has grown to offer more Congresses; conferences on brief therapy and couples therapy; an Evolution of Psychotherapy conference; training workshops, including the Intensives and Master Classes; a rich and expansive archive; the Foundation Press which offers information resources and studies of Dr. Erickson’s methods and Ericksonian related topics; an Erickson Center for Hypnosis and Psychotherapy where patients pay on a sliding scale; a newsletter published three times a year; and more recently, a museum, formerly the home where Dr. Erickson lived and worked the last decade of his life.''
https://www.erickson-foundation.org/about-us/
Read this book, and offer a copy to your son. Hypnosis is fascinating,and your son may become interested and start reading about therapy, which is quite therapeutic. https://www.amazon.com/Frogs-into-Princes-Linguistic-Programming/dp/0911226192
The book is not boring, not stiff, but rather, entertaining and funny.
What's it about? http://www.nlp.com/what-is-nlp/

First book I recommend to any programmer, no matter what they're working on, is The Pragmatic Programmer. Excellent stuff.

If you don't get a shot at low-level coding at work, get yourself an Arduino kit and just hack away. Apparently the language is similar to / based on the C programming language. I use C every day.

To do well with embedded systems, real-time, device driver, or kernel type stuff, you have to really, really, really, understand what the hardware is doing. I was able to learn gradually because I started programming when there was one CPU and no cache memory. Each hardware operation was straightforward. Now with multi-core CPUs, multi-level cache memory, multiple software threads, it becomes a bit more complex. But something like the Arduino will teach you the basics, and you can build on that.

Every day I have to think asynchronously - any operation can happen any time, and if they share memory or other resources, they can't step on each other. It can get hairy - but it's really fun to reason about and I have a blast.

There's a lot more I'm sure, but get started with some low-level hacking and you can build from there.

If you want to get meta, many of the best programmers I know love Godel, Escher, Bach because it widens your mental horizons. It's not about programming per se, but I found that it helps my programming at a meta level. (and it'll give you a lot to meditate on when you're baked!)

> ...after a couple of months started smoking daily

> On the weekends I’ll often smoke all day.

> I’m currently on a moderation break ... It’s harder than I thought it would be.

My habits are nearly identical to yours, and due to the fact you sound like how I do regarding my habit, it is best you get a hold of your habit before your habit grabs a hold of you.

For me, (to which I'll emphasize), smoking "all day," on any particular day, is the quickest way to build tolerance. By the end of that particular day I'll smoke back a third bowl for only a short marijuana intoxication. For me, I found simply waiting until the early afternoon to toke up helps reduce m-j tolerance. Also, speaking from personal experience, and having read similar accounts on several "trees" related sub-rs, smoking at night directly before bed is yet another way to boost tolerance quickly.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to get high, but please be aware body tolerance is your body's way of telling you "You're smoking too much." Due to the fact I'd be completely irresponsible with my own habit I had to buy myself a kitchen safe. [https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Safe-Locking-Container-Height/dp/B00JGFQTYQ/] A kitchen safe is a fail-safe electronic self-locking container. If you can't control your habit, control your access to your vice. With a kitchen safe I can stretch my stash of weed from six weeks to thirteen! It worked for me.

I'd also suggest not* smoking every day. Yes, getting high is fun. You're highs will be more potent if you spread out your habit and regulate yourself.

Get some 190 proof Everclear / Golden Grain / Pure Grain Alcohol.

This stuff is made for human consumption, so I would use that. Then for bud, you would wash the herb a couple of times quickly in fresh alcohol.

Then you get a small cheap crockpot from Target for like $12 and use that to evap off the alcohol.

You still need to decarb the herb, so you can do that in two ways. Get a temperature gun from Amazon -- they are super useful. This one is less than $20 and should work fine.

Then you want to decarb the THC. Do this either before you wash the herb in alcohol or you can decarb the tincture after you have made it. You turn the crock pot on high and that will put it around 230 degrees f, and you decarb it for an hour or two. If you decarb the tincture after you have made it, then all the alcohol will evaporate and you will want to pour fresh alcohol into the crock pot.

Make sure to use the crock pot in a drafty place if you are evaporating off any alcohol -- you don't want a fire or explosion to happen, so you need fresh air.

THC dissolves very easily in alcohol, so making a tincture this way is easy and pretty fast, except for decarbing.

Did you get the same kind? Make sure you're pointing the right part of the thermometer at the banger (you're using a quartz banger?). It's not the laser pointer part, it's the opening below it. Usually from about 6 inches away, it'll read pretty consistently. Since it's so close, DON'T USE THE LASER POINTER! Or at least don't pay attention to where it's pointing. You want to aim the sensor opening at the banger, not the laser.

Also, it reads in real time, you don't have to hold and release!

Yes, it jumps up and down a little bit at the beginning, probably because it's reading the heat of the air rising around it. But you should be able to read a downward trend, especially after it cools down slightly.

Message me back if you don't figure it out, I'd be happy to post a video or something. I'm super-happy with mine, and would be glad to help you get your working. Good luck!

Maybe some budtenders can, but most are full of BS when it comes to advising customers. They act like they know what they're talking about, but usually don't.

My recommendation is to buy some high THC weed and also some high CBD/Low THC weed and then play around with mixing them until you get the right head. Even better if you get three strains into the mix. For me, a good sativa, a good indica, and some CBD-heavy weed.

That way you can experiment and learn what you enjoy/need at any given time, and then mix up the right stuff when loading your vape or pipe. I use a very, very tiny spice measuring spoon set to measure it out. The ones labeled drop, smidgen, pinch, dash, and tad. Here's a link:

https://amazon.com/New-Star-Foodservice-42924-Stainless/dp/B00KH9PSNI/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1468181696&sr=8-6&keywords=spice+measuring+spoons

Mixing up blends is far superior to trying to find the perfect strain. Make your own.

For best maintenance of cannabis moisture (think cigar humidor) get a glass Mason jar and throw a 62% RH Boveda pack in there and your buds well stay fresh for months. The packs are like $10 for 12 and they last a long time so it's a no-brainer purchase. They are two-way humidity control, so they will both absorb moisture to dry out buds that are too wet (to a certain degree) and release moisture to hydrate dried out buds.

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Amazon link to 12x 62% Boveda Packs with Prime, $13.49
Amazon link to 10x 62% Boveda Packs with free regular shipping, $8.99

Seriously, buy them if you like fresh cannabis, they're so cheap and so effective you'll wonder why you didn't use them before.

I use a grow of Roots Organic Original Potting Soil +2 part formula of RX Green Solutions part A&B for Veg and Bloom Enhancer Hydroplex for flowering.

My lights are a standard LED for plants. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GNWK2XO/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1499738249&sr=8-11&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=plant+LED

I have had relative success with this formula. It is good for single grow operations. It is enough for me. A few ounces every 3-5 months. That's good enough for me as of right now.

I cut costs massively, and it worked for me.

Amazon has them in packs of 10-15. I strongly advise doing it this way and testing every 2-3 days and plotting your results. This way in the future you'll have an idea of how long it takes to clear your system (since this varies from person to person)

Some people could test clean in as little as a week. Personally it took me about 3 weeks to get consistently clean after smoking 2-4 times a day for 3 months. For reference I'm in my mid 20's with low body fat.

The exact tests I used

Vaping is great for inside the house and for less impact on your lungs. There hasn't been much studies of the effect of second hand marijuana smoke. So

There are devices such as the smoke buddy which do an excellent job eliminating smell and smoke. I live in a dorm at university and heavily smoke in my bathroom with one of these and have never had a problem. Even with stingy Resident Advisers. Combined with Ozium it is fool proof.

https://www.amazon.com/Ozium-Glycol-Ized-Professional-Sanitizer-OZ-15/dp/B001BAL7W8/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1467204038&sr=1-1&keywords=ozium

https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Buddy-Personal-Filter-Blue/dp/B00478UIB2

When it comes to choosing a pipe is form and funciton. Things to keep in mind when buying pipe are the size of the bowl (where you put your herb), the size of the hole in the bowl, placement of carb cap, and make sure your eyebrows wont get burned when lighting. When it comes to hand pipes i prefer dry pipes (not bubblers) The minuscule amount of water in them doesn't do anything for me and they get really smelly and dirty. I think a small little spoon pipe will do you great! Probably some typos in there but i am really stoned and don't care happy blazing!!

Or if you're looking for something better than a spoof, grab something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Buddy-Personal-Filter-Blue/dp/B00478UIB2

This? https://www.amazon.com/AUTOMATIC-PAPER-ROLLING-79MM-PACK/dp/B01M0PIOG4/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=zen+rolling+box&qid=1572291152&sr=8-4

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Any idea how many points you can stuff into each jay? And is this appreciably faster than using the rinky-dink hand rollers?

This thing might be worth looking into, it's almost like an electric slap chop

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https://www.amazon.com/Ninja-200-Watt-16-Ounce-Chopping-NJ110GR/dp/B00HL3TBDQ/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=slap+chop&qid=1564873918&s=gateway&sr=8-7

Thought this was an excellent book on mindfulness and marijuana.

The Mindful Marijuana User: A New Perspective & Realistic Approach https://www.amazon.com/dp/1941768199/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_r5zRub07P9V61

Get some boveda packs to add to air tight mason jars stored in a cool, dark place. Should last you a long time!

Buy some home tests. This is the only way you'll know for sure.

toss some of these packs in an airtight jar with your bud for longer term storage https://www.amazon.com/Boveda-62-Percent-2-Way-Humidity-Control/dp/B00JV27MF4?th=1

You can buy them on Amazon, but most local headshops should sell them.

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