Jungle Fever: Smoking Paraphernalia & Legal Highs

A bong is the most popular means by which you can inhale the substances which can give you a legal high.  Once you have tried it a few times, a bong is easy to use, but it can look complex at first.

A bong is a water-filtered apparatus that offers the cleanest, safest and smoothest way by which to use a legal high which can be smoked.  Therefore, the bong is becoming increasingly popular.

To get your legal high, first you need to fill the bong with water.  This is what will cool down the smoke, making it easier on your lungs.  You can also add ice to your bong, but you need to make sure there is enough water in there so that it bubbles when you inhale through it.  You can also use hot water, as the steam helps to take moisture into the lungs and avoid coughing when the lungs dry out. 

Make sure you don’t have too much water in the bong.  Make sure it doesn’t spill out as you bend to inhale the legal high.  However, it should be deep enough so that all the smoke runs through the water.

You are now ready to pack the bowl with your legal highs.  Pack it reasonably tightly, but not overly so.  You want enough legal high in there to get a good length of smoking time; however, you also need to be able to pull in air through the legal high substance.

When you are ready to smoke, put your mouth to the pipe, sealing your lips around it so the legal high vapour does not escape without being breathed in.  Hold the bong with one hand covering the hole in the side of the bong.  It will probably be most comfortable to sit and rest the bong on your chest.  Hold the lighter to the bowl containing the legal high and inhale at the same time as lighting it.  Inhale until you fill the chamber with the amount of smoke you want.

After that, uncover the hole in the bong and take the pipe from your mouth for a few breaths.  After that, leave the bong hole uncovered and inhale the smoke from the bong.  If you are sharing a bong, make sure none of your smoke is left in the bong before you pass it on.  Try to inhale the smoke and hold it as long as possible in your lungs to experience the maximum legal high.

Bong water pipes have been used for centuries in Laos and Thailand but became popular with Australian travellers and surfers as an economical method of smoking.  The image for years was that of a surfer lying by his board on an Australian beach and smoking his bong, just hanging out with the waves. 

Bongs can now be bought online and enjoyed across the globe.  There are a number of reputable online retailers that sell bongs and the herbal mixtures that makes using these contraptions such as pleasant and enjoyable experience.

When you go online you will see that there are loads of bongs that you can choose from.  There all different shapes and sizes, and they are made of several different materials.  Your bong can be made from glass, acrylic, ceramic as well as the original Thai bamboo.  You can even pick the size of the bong that suits you.  You can have one that fits discreetly in the cupboard, or one that has multiple pipes so that your smoking session can be a shared experience, which is great for parties. 

Acrylic bongs are a good buy if you are just starting out and are not too sure of your preference.  These types of bongs come at great prices and are also ideal if you only smoke on an occasional basis.

If you want to enjoy a cooler smoke then plump for a glass bong, because the glass can withstand higher temperatures.  There are also a mini bongs that can fit into your pocket or purse so that you can enjoy your legal highs wherever you travel.

A bong is a device that has become associated primarily with illegal substances, although in truth it can be used to smoke many other products, including tobacco and other legal highs. Bongs can come in all shapes and sizes.

While bongs are traditionally made out of glass, the acrylic bong has become increasingly popular due in part to the fact that they are a lot easier to clean and a lot harder to accidentally break than the more common glass bongs. Acrylic bongs are also often quite a bit cheaper than their glass counterparts, and are available in a more interesting variety. Glass bong users, such as fans of roor bongs, claim that they give generally smoother ‘pulls’ than their acrylic rivals. Bongs have been around for a very long time, having been used for a great many centuries in countries such as Thailand and Laos. Often, multi-pipe bongs are used in cultural ceremonies.

The appeal of the bong, as opposed to other methods for smoking various substances, is that the water in the bong helps cool the substance, thus cutting down the chances of burning either the mouth or the lungs. The water can also help to trap heavier particles and some soluble minerals, giving a kind of “filtration” effect and preventing some of the more toxic elements of the substance from entering the user’s body. There are several studies that do indeed back up this widely held belief, suggesting that smoking with a bong is safer than smoking unfiltered.

In some countries, the bong is sold specifically as a tobacco inhaling device, thus allowing them to remain on sale.

Bongs, or water pipes, use a filtration system involving water to smoke plant products, tobacco and various other substances. They resemble hookahs in their construction, and the results are similar too. Bongs are made from a wide range of materials and come in various shapes and sizes.

You can actually easily make your own bong using any container that is air- and water-tight, by the addition of a screened bowl and slide apparatus, and making a hole in the lower part of the bong to allow air to get in.

The term ‘bong’ has a Thai origin, where it refers to any tubular pipe or container cut from bamboo, and bongs have been used for many centuries across Laos and Thailand.

Users of hookahs and bongs claim that the cooling effect of the water makes smoking through them safer than smoking cigarettes, and incidentally keeps larger molecules out of the smoker’s system.

Independent research however has found that the bongs and hookahs actually are more efficient at filtering out the desired psychoactive elements in herbs and less good at filtering out tars, so it takes longer to achieve the mild sedative effect that the smokers are after.

Glass bongs are preferred by purists because there is no residue that burns off with the smoke as can occur with wood, acrylic, aluminium and other materials used for bong construction.

Acrylic bongs, on the other hand, are cheaper and less likely to break when you and your fellow partakers start to get into the party mood.

Bongs are similar in construction to the familiar water pipes or hookahs that have been used for many centuries across the Middle East. Bongs come originally from Thailand and Laos where they, like hookahs, incorporate the use of water as a coolant and filter for the smoke produced by herbal mixtures. The cooling effect of the water makes for a more comfortable smoking experience, and various aromatic additions enhance the relaxed mood.

The water is effective in filtering out harmful toxic substances such as the larger molecules that make smoking tobacco so dangerous, say enthusiastic users of the bong. You may add to this that using a bong is less addictive than smoking cigarettes, and is part of a communal experience, with multi-pipe bongs very popular as the centrepiece of a gathering. 

Roor bongs are the aristocrats of the bong world. These hand-blown glass bongs combine supreme functionality with exquisite design to make Martin Birzle’s Roor bongs some of the most sought-after pieces of equipment in the bong world. They can be used as decorative items as well as used for smoking herbal mixtures. These cult objects offer the ultimate experience for using legal hallucinogenic herbal products.

Acrylic and aluminium, as well as the traditional wooden bongs, are popular, but glass bongs are generally considered the most pure form of bong because no material residue caused by the heating process is contributed to the smoke.

Using bongs is a great alternative to cigarette smoking, and the bongs themselves are often highly prized as works of art in their own right.

To keep your bong in perfect working order, you will have to give it some TLC to make sure that the device is maintained and working properly.  There is a whole list of accessories that you will have to buy to keep it clean and working efficiently.  Bong brushes and bong cleaners are just a couple of the things that you will need to consider when you buy a bong.

Bong Brush

First of all, you will need a down tube cone bong brush.  When you have used your bong you will have to empty and clean the device.  The brushes come in different sizes, dependent on the size of your bong, and can get to these difficult to reach places.  The brushes have stiff bristles to make sure that they can clean even the most stubborn stains.

Bong Cleaner

There is a range of cleaners that are specifically designed to clean your bong.  Make sure that the product that you buy is meant for your type and make of bong.  Bong cleaners are non-toxic and can be safely used on any part of your bong.  No smell or aftertaste is going to spoil your next bong experience.

Air Freshener

Now that you have cleaned your bong, you can freshen up your room.  Any reputable legal high shop or website will be able to help you choose a suitable product.  A spray into the air or on to any fabric will soon eliminate any lingering odours.

The term “bong” tends to conjure images of stoned undergraduates, laughing gormlessly and talking drug induced claptrap. But bongs aren’t exclusively for the use of illegal drugs – you can experience perfectly legal highs by using them.

The principal behind them is simple: fumes are inhaled only after they have passed through a vessel of water, a process which is believed to enhance the smoothness of the flavour and experience of smoking, much more so than, say, using a traditional pipe.  So, completely legal substances such as tobacco can be passed through a bong.

The water cools the fumes and partially filters them as they pass through it, absorbing some of the more toxic substances before the burned gases reach the smoker’s mouth and lungs (other liquids besides water can be used).  It would, however, be a mistake to conclude that smoking with a bong is a risk-free business: it does not make smoking tobacco, for instance, safe – it merely cools the smoke and removes some, not all, of the toxins.

Because the principal is so simple, making bongs depends entirely on the creativity and ingenuity of the individual who wants to try the experience out.  If cash-strapped students can fabricate them at the drop of a hat, anyone can.  Generally speaking, though, most people tend to buy them ready-made just for convenience.  They vary from exquisitely well-crafted and elegant hand-blown glass water pipes (although these tend to be on the expensive side) to functional, acrylic mass-produced versions and relatively cheap “travel” bongs.

Legal highs are becoming increasingly popular, with users preferring not to go down the criminal route with all that entails, and also wishing to avoid the harm to health inflicted by hard drugs.

Those seeking legal highs are predominantly law-abiding citizens who wish to take advantage of the mild hallucinogenic effects of certain legal and naturally occurring herbs in the safest way possible to gain some respite from the pressures of daily life. This is no more harmful than having a few pints, and can actually be beneficial to the health in terms of opening up airways and achieving a calming effect.

Various types of equipment are used, usually to inhale smoke and vapour from plant substances such as legal herbal mixtures. Bongs are very popular, and like hookah pipes they use water as a coolant and filter method to get rid of harmful chemicals in the smoke. If you want a fast high then a bong is probably not the best idea because the water is also efficient at filtering out much of the mildly hallucinogenic element you’ll be after. Hookahs and bongs are for social gatherings where you have time to sit around conversing as you smoke, and indeed there are multi-pipe bongs to facilitate this social element to these activities.

Vaporizers are much better at delivering the pure content at the heart of an herbal mixture, and they do so faster than most other methods. This is because the material is not heated to the combustion point and therefore no smoke is produced.

Bongs originated in Thailand and the Laos region of the Far East, where the term ‘bong’ has long been used to describe any tubular structure made from bamboo. Bongs nowadays are readily available from specialist companies in the high street and on the internet, and are an attractive alternative to smoking cigarettes.

The advantage of using a bong – which is rather like a hookah, hubble-bubble or water pipe – is that it utilises water to cool the smoke and filter out harmful toxins such as the larger molecules associated with some cancers. The use of various aromas such as rose petal helps foster an atmosphere of quiet contemplation in the company of friends.

Glass bongs are usually preferred by those who take their bonging seriously, as glass does not contribute any substance to the smoke, as wood and other materials do, so that the resulting active ingredients from herbal mixtures are about as pure as you can get.

Acrylic bongs are probably the most popular bongs in use these days, as they are much sturdier than glass bongs and less liable to break.

Multi-pipe bongs are ideally suited to a group experience, and you’ll find the conversation flowing as the mildly hallucinogenic properties of your legal herbal mixtures start to take effect. Amongst maturing hippies, however, there’s probably still nothing quite like passing it around, as the act itself has overtones of selflessness and brotherly (and sisterly) sharing that ‘Bogarting’ your own pipe doesn’t reflect in quite the same way.

Bongs and hookah pipes have much in common, and are essentially variations on the same theme. Whereas hookah pipes, or hubble-bubbles, are familiar in the cultures of the Middle East, where they have been used for centuries in cafes, bongs derive from Eastern Asia and have a similar distinguished history across Thailand and Laos. The term ‘bong’ is in fact derived from a general Thai term for a tubular structure made from bamboo.

Both bongs and hookah pipes use water as a part of their operation, to act as a coolant and filter for the smoke produced by burning various herbal products. The water purifies the smoke, removing harmful products like the larger molecules that are responsible for cancers in cigarette smoke. Bongs and hookah pipes have a cultural function in their countries of origin, where smokers chat and take their ease whilst puffing at the pipes, and there are even multi-pipe bongs that can be placed at the centre of a group to facilitate use and social interaction.

Vaporizers such as the sophisticated Volcano Vaporizer, or cheap vaporizers such as handheld vaporizers, work in a different way, heating the products of plants and various essential oils up to but short of the combustion point to produce a vapour that contains only the essential ingredients. As the heat is relatively less and there is no smoke produced, vaporizers are considered safer than other inhalation methods in common use.

There are many legal substances that can be used in bongs, hookah pipes and vaporizers to produce a desired high without getting into legal trouble and at less risk to the health than stronger and illegal stimulants.