Subject: Re: Question for Bao  
Author: Samson
Date: 2000/08/23
Forum: alt.drugs.hard 
            

crafty bernardo <craftybernardo@netzero.net> wrote:

>  Man, I understand the concept of vaporization, but don't understand
> how the O. pipe can accomplish it. Explain please, I don't know why
> this is making me crazy. You take the pipe, put in a ball of O. and
> apply the flame. How does this vaporize it? I am missing something.

Vaporize == boil. The flame is applied to the chamber
containing the opium, melting and then boiling the 
contents.

When you smoke any drug -- THC, morphine, nicotine, 
whatever -- you are actually vaporizing and not 'burning' 
it. Combustion is a chemical reaction; the combustion 
product(s) of drug X is not the same as drug X. Drugs 
which come with cellulose fibers (i.e., leaves) attached 
to them evade combustion, because, either due to the lower 
heat at which cellulose burns or the greater surface area 
of the fibers being exposed, the drug gets 'boiled off' 
the burning leaves before it burns. (Of course, some gets 
burnt -- aside from what gets lost in the air, about 50% 
of the THC in a joint is destroyed before you even have a 
chance to inhale it.) 

How you go about smoking a drug just depends on how much
you're willing to sacrifice, how much hassle you're 
willing to go through in order to minimize the amount 
you're going to destroy, and the chemical and physical
properties of the drug and the medium in which it comes.
(The purer the drug, the less medium there is to 'boil
it off' of, the more you'll tend to waste by applying
flame directly.) 



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