What is cannabis?

Cannabis is a drug which comes from the Indian hemp plants such as Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica. The key active chemical in cannabis is THC. Cannabis is a sedative drug. Sedative drugs do not essentially make you feel unhappy. Rather, they slow down the activity of the central nervous system and the messages going among the body and the brain. When big doses of cannabis are taken it may also produce psychedelic effects.For information on synthetic cannabinoids, see our “Legal high” facts page.

Cannabis is also known as reefer, dope, herb, mull, buddha, ganja, joint, stick, buckets, grass, pot, hash, weed, cones, skunk, hydro, yarndi, smoke and hooch.

Different ways to consume cannabis

Smoking

Smoking is a common method of using marijuana. The method is to roll into a cigarette using tobacco rolling papers and then smoking it. You can also be smoked in a pipe or a bong. Many people smoke marijuana in bubblers (mini-bongs). One of the oldest methods of smoking weed is tobacco, hash, and other substances-is with a hookah. Marijuana can also be smoked in a blunt that is a cigar that has been scooped out to replace the tobacco with marijuana or a mixture of marijuana and tobacco.

Gravity Bongs

Other way to smoke weed using usual household items is a gravity bong, it’s sometimes called a bucket bong or waterfall bong. These bong are made from plastic bottles, buckets, milk jugs and two liter soda bottles. The household gravity bongs use gravity to tug the smoke into the compartment using water, or sometimes wine or beer.

Vaping

New method of consuming marijuana is by vaporization. Vaporizers heat the marijuana to a point just below the point of combustion. The active ingredients can be breathe in as a vapor, rather than as more damaging smoke.

Dabbing

Dapping method is similar to vaping. It may be in oil form (hash oil or honey oil), a soft a hard solid (shatter), solid form (wax or budder), or a hard solid (shatter). A glass pipe or bong is heated with a blowtorch. Into the pipe when the resin extract is placed into the pipe, it produces vapor almost instantly. Dabbing is supposed to produce a superior high than smoking marijuana.

Oral Ingestion

Marijuana is being baked or added to many types of food. Marijuana edibles are being formed and promoted now that medical marijuana is authorized in many states and recreational marijuana use is legal in some. Oils extracted from marijuana plants can be used in baking, cooking, or simply mixing with food to create a variety of products that can be ingested taken in capsule form orally.

Sprays

One more new method of using marijuana includes infusing liquids with THC or CBD to make sprays that users can spray under the tongue. This method is classically used by medical marijuana users who want to avoid the damaging effects of smoke.

Sprays are also used in areas where marijuana is still prohibited because they are problematic to notice. Some use sprays in conjunction with smoking marijuana, by spraying the inversely flavored spray on blunts or joints.