All right, cannabis adventurers, today’s tip is a bit of a “how-to”! If like many cannabis consumers you’re using a custom-made glass pipe, you’ve likely noted that keeping that pipe looking as sparkly-clean, attractive—and functional—as the day you purchased it, is a wee bit harder than you may have expected.
The unctuous black resin that results from smoking cannabis is quite apt to stain clothing, your hands, and anything else it comes in contact with. Fortunately, maintenance of glass is hardly rocket science; it just takes patience, the right tools, and a little bit of advanced planning.
Crack is soluble in acetone. Wash your glass stem out in acetone (not nail varnish – the purer the better) and allow it to evaporate on a glass dish with large surface area. Scrape up residue and smoke. Don’t use acetone if your smoking device contains anything plastic as most if not all plastics will dissolve to some degree in acetone. Looking like a junky shouldn’t bother people who dab. You’re freebasing THC lol the way a crack or meth user smoke their stuff. You could get a torch and a meth or crack pipe and smoke extracts the same way. I do know what you mean tho. I guess a quartz nail and a bubbler or a vape pen looks a lot classier.
How to Clean Glass Pipe – Start Smart
What You’ll Need to Clean Your Glass Cannabis Pipe
First of all, let’s lay out the materials you’ll want to have close at hand before cleaning:
- A bobby pin or other thin wire implement
- Paper towels, tissue or expendable rag
- Sealable plastic freezer baggie
- Salt, preferably coarse or kosher
- Isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol, 90% or higher
- Pipe cleaner (available at craft stores or well-stocked drug stores and dispensaries)
How to Clean Glass Pipe In 4 Easy Steps:
Step 1: Soften the resin by applying heat. One of the easiest ways, naturally, is to use the pipe for its intended purpose, just so long as you feel that imbibing won’t muddle the cleaning process!
How To Smoke Resin From Crack Pipe
Step 2: Using the bobby pin or similar device, gently scrape the resin from the bowl, walls, and mouthpiece of the pipe. Keep in mind that the resin will stain most anything it comes in contact with, so exercise caution and have a paper towel or similar in place to wipe off the collected resin. Of course, if you want to save the resin for smoking later, you can collect it all in a non-reactive glass or plastic vessel of some kind.
Step 3: Break out the freezer baggie! Place the pipe in the bag with a good scoop (we recommend a tablespoon or two) of salt, then enough rubbing alcohol to submerge the pipe completely. Sealing up the baggie, start gently swishing and rubbing with your fingers to scrub the pipe with the salt-and-alcohol mixture. Keep this up for a good minute or two (you may want to employ a timer if cannabis has altered your perception of time), then allow the pipe to sit in the liquid for a couple of hours. Repeat the gentle scrub if you feel it’s needed.
Step 4: Once the scrub is complete, rinse the pipe thoroughly in hot water, gently dry with a towel of some sort, and inspect. At this point, you may want to use the pipe cleaner to remove any stubborn traces of resin and restore some of the pipe’s original shine. If you haven’t gone too long between cleanings, your pipe should be shiny and ready for further use!
How to Clean Glass Pipe Without Alcohol
Although we feel it’s a safe household solvent when thoroughly rinsed, some people prefer to avoid isopropyl alcohol altogether.
How To Smoke Resin From Crack Pipes
An alternative cleaning regimen is to boil enough tap water to cover the pipe by a few inches in a saucepan, reduce the heat to a simmer, and submerge the pipe for half an hour or so. Be sure that the simmer is low enough to release gentle bubbles, but not evaporate off and leave the pipe uncovered, which could crack it. After the time has elapsed, carefully drain the water and—exercising extreme caution as the pipe will be hot—clean and dry it thoroughly with a towel and/or pipe cleaner.
Resin is the byproduct of smoking marijuana and sticks to basically any surface that the marijuana is being smoked out of. The resin is composed of a lot of tar, ash, carbon, and cannabinoids that are inherently found in cannabis. Many people say that this is the unhealthiest way to smoke because of the immense amount of tar that you are inhaling. Unfortunately, sometimes there are difficult financial times or they maybe a drought in your neighborhood.
If this occurs, and you want to use your resin it is pretty easy to get medicated off the resin. You just have to put the flame that comes from your lighter and burn the resin that is in your bowl. A good circular motion makes sure your resin burns evenly.
Another way to hit your resin is scrape all of it from your bowl, in to a ball, and hit the ball. Very simple.
Now, we will get in to the different areas where you can find resin. Resin pretty much coats your bowl from top to bottom so you can hit the resin in many different ways. Put your thumb over your bowl; you are going to use your bowl as the shot gun. Now put your flame up to the shot gun and take a hit while keeping the flame lit. If you do this correctly the flame will light everything underneath and around your bowl. There are mass amounts of resin reserves in this area.
Now you can use the shotgun as a mouth piece. Keep your thumb on top of the bowl and put your flame by the mouth piece that you would normally use to hit the bowl. There is resin here too.
WARNING: Taking resin hits can heat up your bowl extremely quickly. The bowl can burn you, so let it cool if you are hitting it vigorously.