Jungle Fever: Smoking Paraphernalia & Legal Highs

A weed grinder, also called a herb grinder, a bud grinder or spice grinder, is a tool that you can use to grind herbs and spices into smaller particles in order for you to either add them to food or to inhale their odours. A weed grinder is indeed inseparable from a vaporizer. After the former has ground the psychedelic plants, the latter heats up the ground up pieces and converts them to vapour ready for inhalation. Weed grinders are considered perfect for grinding tobacco and other herbal highs like the leaves of salvia divinorum.

Weed grinders are typically made up of two or three compartments with a fine screen separating the top from the bottom. The fine screen acts as a sieve that allows only fine particles like ground salvia to pass through but blocks bigger plant particles. Grinders are called either “four-stages” or “five-stages” grinders depending on the number of its various divisions that further reduce in size the particles that have already been ground from the first compartment. The “five-stages” grinder is specially designed for making tobacco snuff.

Tobacco snuff is tobacco finely ground into powder form. Snuff is becoming more and more popular as it can now be used in places where smoking is prohibited such as on aircraft and in restaurants.

After you ground tobacco or salvia divinorum with your weed grinder, you can expect it to burn more evenly after you roll it into a joint. Grinding it exposes more of its surface area to heat and thus it will produce stronger-smelling vapours compared to when it is not ground. Another advantage of finely-ground herbal highs is that you do not expect it to poke holes in rolling paper because of the extremely small size of the particles.

Herb grinders are used to grind tobacco and other herbs into very small particles which can be heated up and whose vapour can then be inhaled through a vaporizer. If you are planning to make your first purchase of an herb grinder, you should keep a few things in mind. If you are not on your guard when buying your grinder, you can be easily short changed.

First of all, keep in mind that it is always advisable to buy your herb grinder from a supplier with many years experience and a good reputation in the manufacture of grinders. The bestselling herb grinders are named after the companies that manufacture them. The one considered most ideal by smokers is the Space Case grinder. The fine crystal collecting screens that ground your tobacco into a perfectly fine consistency make the Space Case grinder an all-time bestseller. Because of such efficiency and popularity, the Space Case grinder is worth as much as £60 but smaller models can fetch only £20. Two other names of popular grinders are the organic-derived Mix’n Ball grinders and the scratch-resistant Sharp Stone grinder.

Second, check the grinder for quality. Make sure it is not made from acrylic, wood or cheap aluminium. A premium quality grinder is manufactured out of the best aircraft aluminium according to very strict standards and would usually sell at £20 to £60 each. High quality herb grinders are made from expensive high-grade aluminium, but not necessarily aircraft aluminium, and would usually cost £15 to £30. Both high and premium quality grinders have other features like a magnetic lid and a great lustre.

Thirdly, choose your preferred size correctly. The larger the herb grinder, the more plant material it can process at a single time. Large grinders usually measure from 1.5 up to 4 inches in diameter although a 3 to 4 inch model is ideal.

Fourthly, buy one with the suitable hole size. This refers to the holes between the grinding section and the screen section of the grinder. The holes will determine how well ground the tobacco or your favourite herbal high will be. Different sizes of the holes produce different results. Holes that are 3.6 to 3.9 mm are perfect for beginners and holes that are from 4.0 to 4.8 mm are good for those who use a vaporizer, rolling machine or pipe.

You might know how to use a weed grinder, but these tips will help you learn more about this exceptional tool that can help you achieve a more pleasurable smoking experience. Be sure to stay informed about the correct way to use your weed grinder, especially when cleaning out the buds. You don’t want to use one with small flaky pieces on the inside and if you find cleaning up the dust essential to your smoking habit, here are some useful tips on how to properly maintain a weed grinder:

First-Time Cleaning

Before using a newly bought grinder, it needs thorough cleaning in order to protect it from the chemicals surrounding the metal plates. Start off by unscrewing and inspecting the pieces, an average grinder has four. You may possibly see a few flakes left behind from the manufacturing process. Wipe the weed grinder down with a small amount of isopropyl alcohol to kill germs and bacteria and use a Q-tip if needed. Then, it’s ready to use.

After-Use Cleaning

It isn’t necessary to clean the grinder frequently, but when the “kief” starts to block the screen and the weed grinder starts to stick, making it difficult to turn, then it’s time to clean it. Before thoroughly cleaning the grinder, collect as much kief as possible. One great tip is to get a piece of paper and tap each piece of the grinder onto it. If there is a lot of build-up, you should put the grinder in the freezer and leave it for about 15 to 20 minutes, which will loosen up the remaining kief. Once it’s ready, use a toothpick or any fine-tipped object to remove as much dirt as you can. Finally, wipe the grinder down with isopropyl alcohol and use a Q-tip to get into the grooves.

You should definitely try to find the best possible deal when purchasing a weed grinder, but beware, while you may choose to buy the cheapest grinder of all time, don’t make the mistake of buying poor quality. These products may be inexpensive, but often they are not worth considering. Stay away from buying plastic, wooden and imitation metal grinder, because you don’t want to waste your hard earned money, as they tend to break after the first use. More to the point, most cheaply-made grinders either don’t have “kief: catchers or have low-quality kief screens. Pay a little extra for a good quality machine; you won’t regret it and it will last you much longer than the cheaper models.

If you don’t feel like buying a herb grinder, try making one. There is no homemade substitute for weed grinders, but there are a couple of creative tricks that can help you. Why not give the following simple techniques a try?

Use a pair of scissors and a shot glass. It might be a little harder to achieve the optimum density than using an average four-piece weed grinder, but with a little patience you can obtain acceptable results. This method is easier than doing it with your bare hands, but be careful not to spill the bits everywhere.

Use an electric coffee grinder. This method does a better job on the dense buds than the scissors. You just have to be extra careful not to overdo it, because it’s far too easy to turn your buds into dust.

Purchase a real weed grinder; there’s nothing better if you want to avoid spilling or over-grinding. Also, most grinders usually have a kief catcher, which will collect the highly potent pollen crystals that fall off during the processing.