If you’re looking for more natural smoking experience than what your glass blown bongs or metal pipes have to offer, try making a cantaloupe bong. By using all-natural materials you are guaranteed to be one with mother nature as you take huge rips from this cantaloupe water bong.

What You Need For A Cantaloupe Bong

• A cantaloupe
• Toothpicks
• Knife
• Icepick, chopstick or similar pointy tool

Making Your Cantaloupe Bong

1. Put your cantaloupe on its side and cut off the one-third of the cantaloupe, just above the dimple, in one smooth cut, leaving the cut side of the cantaloupe intact. Set it to the side you will use it in a minute.
2. Scoop out the cantaloupe seeds and discard them.
3. On one side of the cantaloupe, close to the dimple, use a knife and carve a small cone shaped bowl just below the rim.
4. Using an icepick, or a chopstick, poke a hole through the bottom of the bowl to inside the center of the cantaloupe, and angle the hole closer towards the bottom of the cavity.
5. Take your knife and cut two holes around 1/2 inches in diameter in the cantaloupe lid. One closer towards the bowl for the carb, and one towards the back of the cantaloupe lid for the mouthpiece.
6. Fill up with water to just below the level of the bowl and put the lid back on. Use toothpicks to hold the lid in place.

A very simple cantaloupe bong that will get you baked. It only takes about 5 minutes to make and uses mostly all natural ingredients, this bong is great to make when you have a cantaloupe handy, and don’t want to take the time to fashion a more permanent pipe or bong.

The Hot Box Vaporizer is a great, low-key vaporizer, with a very stylish design shaped like a cube, or a ‘hot box’. The Hox Box Vaporizer is constructed out of ceramic which enables it to have a much lower price than other similar vaporizers. Since the Hot Box is made out of ceramic you will need to be careful ’cause ceramic tends break if you drop it, but the Hot Box is a sturdy vaporizer design so it may survive a few of those falls.

The Hot Box was manufactured in the United States by One Source Products, and was originally introduced into the vaporizer market around early 2002. The Hot Box Vaporizer uses a hands free direct inhalation system and a ceramic nichrome heating element. You inhale the vapor through a glass wand that connects to the Hot Box

The Hox Box uses a patented temperature regulator to heat up your herbs. This enables it to keep a desired temperature for multiple hours of use without having to find a specific vaporizing temperature. This is good and bad, good because you can simply turn it on, let it heat up, and forget about the temperature. The bad, because you can’t adjust the temperature when using different herbs and qualities. You can adjust the vaporization rate by using lung power which in turn adjusts the temperature.

The Hot Box’s ceramic nichrome heating element heats up the Hot Box up about 4 minutes, a fairly short time for a good quality vaporizer. Once the Hot Box has achieved the optimal vaporization temperature it will remain at the temperature during the entire vaporization session. It takes about 7 minutes for the Hot Box to cool down after use.

The Hot Box Vaporization is an efficient vaporize that vaporizes marijuana and other herbs very well, once it has reached the desired temperature a dense layer of vapor rapidly occurred. Like other vaporizers you can reuse whatever’s left over in a pipe or bowl, or just for more vaporization to completely vaporize your herbs.

The Hot Box Vaporizer comes with a one year manufacturers warrant that is restricted to normal use. Those with a budget looking for an efficient high quality vaporizer the Hot Box is for you. It isn’t made out of plastic like most vaporizers, and quite durable due to its well-constructed ceramic shell. Some people like to fiddle with all the knobs and bells and whistles on their vaporizer, but if you’re the type that like to set-it-and-forget-it so you can focus on enjoying your bud the Hot Box is a perfect vaporizer for you. The Hot Box is available in several different colors and designs so you can pick out the Hot Box that you prefer.

Some male smokers might be a little freaked out about the idea of a tampon pipe, but I’m sure female smokers always on the go will love this idea. Why not use something that mostly every female has atleast one of with them all the time? This tampon pipe is a very creative solution to smoking on the go, it’s also small, compact and not very noticeable, though it may look weird to other people that you’re sucking on a tampon.

What You Need To Make Your Tam-Pipe

• Tampon with cardboard applicator
• Aluminum Foil, or metal gauze
• X-Acto knife, or a razor blade, or some other sharp pointy tool

How To Make Your Tampon Pipe

1. Take the tampon out of the applicator and discard the tampon.
2. With a knife, cut a 1/2 inch hole about 1/2 an inch away from the end of the larger half of the cardboard tampon applicator.
3. Cut a strip of aluminum foil about 1 1/2 inches wide and 6 inches long.
4. Wrap the aluminum foil around the tampon applicator, so it completely covers up the hole.
5. Work with the aluminum foil into the hole to make a bowl, sometimes its better to form the bowl first then just put it in the hole and wrap the aluminum foil around the applicator. If you have a metal gauze you can simply work the metal gauze around the hole so it stays on.
6. Using your knife, a pen, or a mechanical pencil poke some small holes in the bowl to create a screen.

To smoke your tampon pipe, simply place your finger over the end of the tampon closest to the bowl while lighting the bowl, then remove your finger to release the smoke. This tampon pipe probably took you all of 2 minutes to make. It actually works really well for a simple homemade pipe, it can easily be used and reused again, or you can simply discard it when you’re done and make another tam-pipe when you need it.

The snap inhale is a neat smoking trick that anyone can learn with just a bit of practice and time. It’s fairly easy and straight forward to do. For those of you that don’t know what it is, Seth Rogen does it in Pineapple Express, where you blow out a compressed ‘ball’ of smoke, then quickly inhale it back in before it dissipates.

How To Do The Snap Inhale:

1. First, take a big hit from your blunt, pipe, or bong, the thicker the smoke you can get, the better for your smoking trick.
2. With the smoke in your mouth, curl your tongue upwards to the roof of your mouth.
3. Open your lips a little bit to make an ‘O’ shape.
4. Snap your tongue down and the smoke will float out of your mouth.
5. Then quickly inhale the smoke before it gets too far away from your mouth.

Here is a video of the snap inhale so you actually know what it looks like, gotta love Youtube:

The Vapir Mini Oxygen Vaporizer was introduced to the vaporizing market in 2005, and manufactured by the same people that brought you the Vapir Air ONE vaporizer, Vapir Inc. The Vapir mini portable vaporizer is very similar to the Vapir Air ONE in that it succeeds in giving you a very portable vaporizing solution without sacrificing quality. The Vapir Mini Oxygen Vaporizer has a digital temperature controller, so you know exactly what temperature you are vaporizing your favorite herbs. No more guessing by using some weird dial that doesn’t tell you exactly what temperature your vaporizer is operating at.

Vapir Incorporated are well-known for producing quality vaporizers and this Vapir Oxygen Mini Vaporizer is no different. It comes with a set of full-color and illustrated instructions so you can get to vaporizing as fast and efficiently as possible without wasting any of your precious herbs.

There are two temperature control buttons on the Vapir Oxygen Mini right beneath the LCD temperature display. The left button will lower the vaporizing temperature, while the right button raises the vaporizing temperature. Once your vaporizer has reached the desired temperature just push the button on top of the LCD display and your vaporizer will begin vaporizing. It only takes around 3 minutes for the vaporizer to heat up, which is considerably faster than most models.

The Vapir Oxygen Mini Portable Digital Vaporizer comes with a standard 1500mAH battery pack that will give up to an hour of continuous heating when it is fully charged. When you first use the vaporizer be sure to charge your battery overnight for no less than 12 hours, but be careful and do not charge it for more than 24 hours in a single charging session as this will void your warrant, because the battery will be overcharged. If you’re not satisfied with just the standard battery pack that comes with the Vapir Oxygen you can purchase the Vapir Mini Oxygen Portable Battery Pack that comes with an extra rechargeable battery and a power adapter so you can charge on the go. Another great thing about the Vapir Mini Oxygen is that you can plug it into a car adapter and use it pretty much anywhere your car can go.

This portable vaporizer comes with a 90 day manufacturer’s warranty which covers normal use of the vaporizing unit, which isn’t bad if you happen to get a dud, or your vaporizer craps out on you after a month of using it. Once your original warranty has run out you can get an extended warranty, which is a great way to protect your vaporizing investment. The Oxygen Mini Vaporizer 2.0 is only about 6.5 inches long and 2 inches in diameter. It can easily fit in your pocket and go with you wherever you need to go. The price is very affordable for even the most frugal marijuana smokers, and with the portability you get from this vaporizing unit, it is a must have for any true smoker who wants to save his lungs.

Rolling joints are the best ways to impress your friends and smoking buddies with your master rolling abilities. There are several different kinds of joints you can roll using a variety of techniques, like the cross joint, a joint out of a cigarette, knee trembler joint, and now we’re going to show you how to roll the windmill joint. A windmill joint is similar to the cross joint in that it uses atleast two joints, but the windmill holds four different joints. The windmill is tricky to make, but the holder of the windmill can be used time and time again.

What You Need For A Windmill Joint:

• 10cm x 10cm piece of light cardboard, or thick paper, or an index card
• Scissors, razor blade, or an exacto knife
• 8ish rolling papers

How To Roll A Windmill Joint:

1. First, take your 10cm x 10cm piece of cardboard, and roll a wide cone, then secure it with tape and trim the ends to make a good-shaped cone.



2. Seal your perfect cone with large rolling papers, making sure that you leave about 3cm of excess rolling paper at the end of the cone.



3. Now, make four cross cuts around the end of the cone, one in the top, bottom, right side, and left side.



4. Take another rolling paper or two and make a long, narrow roach out of it about pencil length. Seal your roach with rolling papers or tape.



5. Cut your pencil length roach in half, then cut out a section from the center of each segment.



6. Insert your two roaches into the cross cuts you made previously in the cone. Make sure the cut outs are completely inside the cone and facing the narrow end of the cone. Seal any holes or gaps with gummed strips from rolling papers.



7. Seal the wide end of the windmill joint with excess paper using string, tape or even more rolling papers, depending on what you wanna do.

To use your windmill joint, just roll as many joints as you want, up to four, and stick them in the protruding roaches, light the joints and enjoy your joint rolling masterpiece.

THC oil is a very potent form of marijuana that is made by extracting essential ‘THC’ oils from different parts of the marijuana plant. The result of this extraction is a dark, oily liquid that has 70%+ pure THC, which will get you baked from just a little bit.

It is easy to extract while using easy to find materials and just a little time, and it has several advantages to smoking your marijuana normally:

• No hot, harsh smoke to bother your lungs
• No tar that stains your teeth and fingers
• Very little smell
• Five times as much THC enters your bloodstream
• Get more highs out of it compared to what you spend on regular marijuana
• No carcinogens to give you cancer

Materials Need for THC Oil Extraction:

• A glass jar that has a watertight lid (widemouth mason jars work really good)
• A metal measuring cup with handle, around a 2 cup capacity is recommended
• Bottle of 190 proof grain alcohol, like Everclear
• Any kind of marijuana and any quality, you can use anything from a gram up to a couple of ounces
• A coffee filter or a 1′ x 1′ piece of sturdy cloth that you can use for straining
• An eye dropper bottle (something like a bottle for contact lenses would work great)
• Electric stove and overhead fan

Extracting The THC Oil From Your Marijuana

1. Chop up or grind the weed and buds until it looks like grass clipping AKA finely ground.
2. Remove any seeds, because they have their own oils that we don’t want to extract.
3. Dump your grass clipping into your mason jar.
4. Pour in just enough of your grain alcohol until the marijuana clippings can float freely in the mixture.
5. Put the lid tightly on the mason jar and shake the jar a few times.
6. Let your alcoholic marijuana mixture sit for a couple of hours, shaking it every once in awhile. The mixture should have a dark green color and when it is shaken should form oily bubbles on top of the liquid.
7. Place your coffee filter or cloth over your metal container and press it down to form a filter in the metal cup.
8. Pour your marijuana mixture into the coffee filter that’s in the metal cup, making sure you get the majority of the marijuana out of the jar.
9. Picking up the cloth by the corners and bringing them in squeeze the cloth and marijuana to get as much of the liquid out of the marijuana clump as possible into your metal cup.
10. Go back to step 1-9 and perform them again with your left over marijuana so that way you can get as much THC as possible from it.
11. Now, take your metal cup and put it on your electric stove (make sure it is an electric stove as a gas stove is dangerous to use with alcohol).
12. Turn on the exhaust fan to remove excess vapors from the alcoholic marijuana mixture and turn the burner on low.
13. Keeping a close eye on your alcoholic marijuana mixture make sure it only boils slightly and never put the the burner settings above medium low. Cook the mixture until it is slightly thick. It may take a little while.
14. When the marijuana mixture thickens and darkens remove it from the burner. Try not to let it get too thick or it becomes hard to work with, if you do by accident make it too thick add a little bit of grain alcohol to the mixture and swirl it around until it thins out.
15. Let the marijuana mixture in the metal cup cool down to room temperature.
16. Pour your mixture in the eye dropper bottle. Its ok to have some grain alcohol left in the mixture so you can work with it, it will not affect the potency of the oil or the smoke.

Note: If you don’t have an electric stove do NOT use a gas stove to cook the alcohol. Alcohol is extremely flammable and adding a gas stove to the mix is a dangerous concoction. You can still make your THC oil without using a stove, but you will need to put the mixture in the metal cup somewhere it won’t be disturbed and you’ll have to wait for the alcohol to evaporate. This may take days.

Smoking Your THC Oil

• You can put a drop or two in a cigarette, let it dry, and smoke it up, you can’t smell it and you can get high stealthily in public places where it only looks like your smoking a cigarette, perfect for a smoker on the go.
• You can also use aluminum foil, a straw or pen tube, and a lighter to smoke the THC oil. First, make a bowl out of the aluminum foil. Drop a drops of the THC oil into your aluminum foil bowl and hold it about 4″ over the flame. Let the THC oil boil slightly. Once it turns a very dark brownish color and starts making crackling sounds, lower the aluminum foil bowl directly over the flame. Hold your straw or pen tube about 1″ over the cooked THC oil and inhale. There will be white smoke coming up from the oil, that is vaporized THC. You can feel the effects of the oil almost immediately. Enjoy!

The knee trembler joint is great for breaking the ice, and getting over awkward situations. It only uses two rolling papers, and is very quick to roll with some practice.

1. Stick two rolling papers together at a 45 degree angle.



2. Add your marijuana mix and a roach, the roach is optional, but helps the smooth out the smoke.



3. Now onto rolling the joint, lick the first paper and roll it up tightly leaving the second paper intact for now.



4. Lick the second rolling paper and wrap it around the first one then seal it up.

That’s it. It doesn’t take long and isn’t too hard once you get the hang of it. The knee trembler joint will definitely make your knees tremble and amaze your friends at your master rolling abilities.

Tulip joints are mostly found in Amsterdam, usually in the hands of a half-conscious tourist that can’t even finish it. They’re quite easy to roll, but it looks harder than most joints. The smoke from a Tulip joint is smooth and is a pleasure to smoke.

First, you’re going to make a really long roach about the diameter of a pencil. The roach’s length should be about the length of one rolling paper from tip to end. Seal your roach with a large rolling paper or two.

Now, take two more large rolling papers and stick them together to make a square with the gummed strip running along one size.

Fold the top right corner of the paper all the way down to the bottom right corner, making a diagonal fold, and forming a triangle, but make sure the gummed strip is uncovered.

Lick the strip and fold it over to seal up your rolling paper triangle. You should have a flattened paper cone afterward.

Open up your cone and tightly pack it with layers of your marijuana mix, make sure it is ground up well so you won’t have any issues with stems or large chunks poking holes.

Crimp together the excess paper at the end of the cone, leaving enough of a hole open for your roach to fit inside.

Gently, push the roach in the center of the cone, crimping the paper to hold the roach inside the cone.

Last, but not least use a rubber band or a string around the crimped paper with the roach in place, while trying to keep it all as tight as possible. Voila, you have a perfect Tulip joint, now just get some buddies to smoke it and enjoy this amazing joint.

Half the battle to rolling the perfect joint is getting your marijuana mix right. Most people don’t use a mix, but it’s a good way to save your money, bud, and add different types of buzzes as well as a variety of strengths to your joints. Some people prefer quantity over quality, but if you have good quality then you simply won’t need as much, period.

The best part of the marijuana plant to use is the female flower tops, they are by far the most potent part of the marijuana plant. Thanks to years of marijuana growing and strain cultivation there have been many breakthroughs in different marijuana strains that determine the strength, quality and nature of the high that can vary enormously from strain to strain.

If you use imported bud you can simply break it up and crumble it into your joint rolling mix, because it is mostly forced-dried, and compressed to be transported and stored. When using better quality marijuana, make sure you handle it with care to protect the THC glands. Much of the crystals and trichomes are lost when the bud is ground up or handled roughly. Preferably use a grinder with a kief catcher, a razor blade, or sharp scissors to break up the marijuana. Store the rest of your good quality bud in a cool, dark place, mason jars work best since they are air tight. Get rid of any seeds or stems, unless you’re really desperate to use up as much weed as you can without wasting any. The seeds or stems usually have very little THC and are harsh on the throat to smoke. If you store your fresh marijuana incorrectly, mold can develop, if you encounter any mold on your marijuana, throw it away, if you smoke it you can develop infections and damage your lungs.

To get a good marijuana mix combine weed with tobacco, marijuana leaves, or a good quality herbal smoking mix to let it ‘breath’ in the joint. When using high quality marijuana strains to smoke, you should use caution until you’re familiar with the weed you’re smoking, and you may only need a little bit to achieve the effects you’re used to or want.

In commercial weed, one can find many marijuana leaves, which can be surprisingly potent, but the taste is a little off. Make sure to use only well-cured leaves and get rid of your stems before adding them to your joint rolling mix. Don’t use the larger fan leaves from the bottom of the plant because they are too harsh for joints, and would be best smoked in a water pipe.

Hashish can be found in many different parts of the world and come in very different forms and qualities. Hash is usually heated with a flame, crumbled into a power then added to the rolling mix. Good hashish should light very easily and crumble easily too. If you have soft hash you can roll it into a long thin cylinder to be placed along the length of the joint. Don’t over-fill your joints with hash or use large chunks, it will cause the joint to burn badly and most of it will be wasted.

It’s hard to find genuine marijuana resin oil, but if you can get it, it is extremely potent and often comes in the form of a brown, black or transparent oily fluid that can be smeared across the rolling papers or added to the mix.

In Europe, mostly everyone uses tobacco in their joints. Europe has easier access to high quality weed and hashish so it is often used to add taste and fill out the joint, because you don’t need that much weed for your joints if it’s really high quality, but be careful since it’s really addictive and can cause lung cancer and respiratory diseases.

Last, but not least there are many herbal smoking blends available online and in head shops. Some like, K2/K3 and the Spice products are known for having an effect like marijuana. You can greatly enhance your joints by adding these herbal blends to your marijuana mix to get a buzz of two different kinds. There are also several herbal smoking blends that have some signs of mood change, and effects, but not nearly as much as K2/K3 or marijuana by itself, but can make great additions to any joint mix.