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As I sit here racking my brain and a list I started making of hemp and cannabis related topics, I got to thinking. Perhaps I should start with a broader focus. I'm not gonna take a real "scientific approach" here. Just wanna share my personal preferences and in the comment section I'd love to hear your thoughts and opinions.

So what do I prefer? Well, I've been smoking weed since I was a teenager, with a few breaks here and there. From say 1990 until I learned how to make weed brownies in 2010, other than the occasional hash here and there, all I did was smoke weed. And mostly in blunts. Not even good blunts, Dutches and Phillies. And if I think about it now, not only was a majority of the weed I got on the streets early on regular-ass Mexican outdoor, I now wonder how much of it was hemp. To my recollection, I always got high, albeit not always a truly pleasant high.

I'm not sure the first time I heard of hemp. It certainly wasn't in school. The only thing D.A.R.E. and Just Say Not ever taught us about weed when I was a kid is that if you smoke it you'll wind up shooting heroin, selling your family's VCR and end up dead or in jail. I do recall, sometime in my early 20s, learning how the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were drafted on hemp paper. But I'll admit that I really dind't sink my teeth into learning all the ins and outs of cannabis until my late 30s when I began to view and treat it more as a plant with a wealth of usefulness rather than something to smoke and get high.

In 2013 I was introduced to dabs for the first time. I was selling bud out of my NJ apartment. A kid I met in college came over a bunch of times to buy some and smoke. One day he asked me if it was ok for him to take a dab hit in my living room. I figured sure why not? I'd been curious what all the hype was all about and was down to try it. He went to his car to get his rig. Looked like a perfectly normal bong to me. I had my back turned to finished doing something on my computer while he set everything up. I heard him tinkering around with the glass for a moment. Then I heard the sound of a torch being fired up. I turned around and was like wtf dude I got kids here! Long story short, I took one hit from the rig that day. I remember coughing my lungs up. I also remember how high I still was the next morning.

Of course, dabs doesn't quite knock me on my ass these days unless I smoke too much. And I can't really do that because it destroyed my throat and lungs unless I use a good clean pen with adjustable heat settings. And I've noticed recently that I have to take it easy when it comes to extract derived edibles.

These days I don't actually smoke weed the way I used to morning noon and night. I've slowed down considerably for a number of reasons. One reason is that I can't afford it the way I could when I was hustling. Another is that I'm learning to grow it now. I will be a pothead again one day. But I want to wait until I'm smoking almost my own weed exclusively. I want to make my own extracts for oral consumption and I often enjoy smoking a good strain of hemp now to supplement the consumed dosage. I also plan to grow enough hemp to make, paper, fabric and building materials. I look forward to reading your comments. Thanks for dropping by.

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