It’s nice to just chill and light up a fat one with your buddies when you’ve got some time off. Unfortunately, for the newbie pot smoker there’s a set of unwritten (was unwritten until now) rules that you need to follow in order to enjoy the smoking circle. If your friends are kind and you’ve known them awhile they should be glad to enlighten you on their rules. Certain groups have certain rules, so this guide is by no means definitive, but anything you need to learn with different people should be obvious from the start.
- Whoever packs the bowl AKA provides the weed or rolls the blunt gets the first hit. This is standard, the person packing the bowl is using their marijuana so why shouldn’t they get the first hit? If you’ve got the skills to roll a fine ass blunt, then you should get the first hit on that too, cause without your mad blunt rolling skills we would be stuck smoking out of a shitty bowl or a plastic homemade pipe that is less than satisfactory.
- Puff puff pass. When smoking a blunt only take two hits max, unless the person your smoking with doesn’t notice (not that I recommend it or anything). This rule is negotiable, but I know most people prefer two hits then a pass, cause two hits is enough for one person, and ensures that everyone in the circle still gets to smoke. If you’re using a pipe or a bong, typically you’d only take one hit then pass it.
- Never spill the bong. If you knock over a bong while smoking that’s probably the biggest party foul in the world. Not only does the nasty bong water get everywhere but it also smells like shit and is not fun to clean up.
- Don’t trash the place. Wherever your smoking remember to mind your manners and don’t ash on the floor, or throw your trash where it belongs, and follow all of the owner’s rules.
- Keep the rotation going. Pass the bowl or blunt in the same direction each time. It’s not uncommon to forget which way it goes so just ask. If the bowl is cached before everyone gets a hit it’s common practice to pack the bowl again and continue rotation where it left off.
- Let the next person know the bowl is cached if it is. This is just common courtesy, because noone likes trying to get a hit out of a bowl with just ash. If you’re unsure atleast let the next person know that it might be cached.
Some rules are meant to be broken and marijuana smoking is supposed to be a fun activity so don’t let it get bogged down by having a certain set of smoking rules. People aren’t going to want to smoke with you, and it ruins the fun of being able to just enjoy a good bowl or blunt. Some of these rules is just something that’s understood between lots of people round these parts, like puff, puff pass, because it’s necessary to keep the weed flowing and the circle going.
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I would have to agree with all of the unwritten rules above never had them thrown out like that, But you end up learning and its human nature to say “Hey man this might be cached.” or a more day to day example would be like “Hey watch out for that puddle.” they might even take it apon them selfs to try and get a hit from it. The spilling of bong rule also a big one! It’s hard to think of rules since your just use to doing most of these. One of my unwritten rules i guess would be if you smoke somone up you should be expected to get smoked back up some time in the future”do not become a mooch”-smoke people up dont just leech. I also dont like when other people’s spit gets on a bowl and or blunt/joint just gross frankly. Also never force the use of smoking weed I’ve found that my friends of many many years were very against smoking but i personaly never made it out to be like ‘oooooh i am smoking weed im soo cool uuuggh’ if im with a buddy i usually say hey wana hit this? if they say no its a done deal take it was a no dont force it they might even want to do it later cause of how u aproached them with it be calm and charsimatic while trying to get a active non smoker to try either way if they are a true friend they wont judge you for the use of marjuiana. But yea i like the rules “classic”.