If you’re an avid fan of blowing some insanely large clouds of cannabis smoke through your sick steam roller pipe, maybe you’ve fantasized about what could be achieved if concentrates were smokeable in pipes. Well I’ve got news for you bud because they are! A lot of people assume that when it comes to concentrates like dabs, wax, or hash oil, a really expensive kit or vaporizer is necessary. A bong with a heating nail, a dome attachment to more easily clear the concentrate entirely, a handheld butane torch. All of these things are definitely necessary for the optimal concentrate smoking experience, but that does not mean they are necessary for smoking concentrates at all. There’s in fact a very easy way to smoke most kinds of concentrates in regular pipes, steam rollers and bongs.
The thing with concentrates is that you do want them to be vaporized instead of combusted. Concentrates are much more, well, concentrated. This means that when they combust, terpenes and cannabinoids disperse into the air very, very quickly. Even just the loss of terpenes can result in a significantly reduced high, on top of making the smoke extremely harsh. So how do you make sure your concentrate gets vaporized when hitting it from your steam roller with just a BIC lighter?
The solution is simple, you just need to make sure that flame doesn’t come into contact with the concentrate itself. The easiest way to do this is to pack just a sprinkle of herb into your bowl at the bottom, and then add whatever form of concentrate you’re smoking on top of it. Depending on your concentrate, for example: wax, it might be hard to do this without it becoming a real sticky mess. In this case, pop it in the freezer for literally 30 seconds and it’ll be hard enough to break into little chunks that you can sprinkle in. Be quick though because it’ll reheat back to room temperature very fast in your fingers. The final step is to pack a full bowl’s worth of weed on top of the concentrate you just added. Once it’s properly sandwiched in there, spark that lighter a good centimeter or two above the bowl, and very slowly inhale to draw the flame gently through the bowl. You will have to clear the bowl in one hit to optimize this method but that’s what a steam roller is for right?