Weed Grinders (Structure and Purpose)
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.