Hi people,

I'm new on the forum so I thought I would start by mentioning that grit is indeed a problem which isn't dying out and people selling grit with pure ignorance should line up on a bridge and jump into a river (Preferably not the Thames).

With all humorous approaches aside however, I would like to congratulate everyone at UKCIA for really pushing it to make the public aware of contaminated cannabis. I really feel it's made a difference. Kids nowadays aren't "that" conscious about their own decisions, thinking that if Snoop Dogg does it, it should be fine. However this not being said of all youths nowadays, the clever batch will still try their weed (there's nothing stupid about enjoying one of nature's gifts) but will also engage into at least a google-it of a research plan to inform themselves on what they get themselves into.

When you do search online for hazards regarding cannabis, you don't get the usual media twisted crap being put out there about something that we all know is least harmful to the body than alcohol! I was amazed and very glad to see that the whole grit weed thing is coming up on the Internet A LOT and this is excellent as it will in due turn make cannabis users choose a healthier route to enjoying their green.

Nothing new said there, however I do want to mention that I have found the odd one or two folks that claim they can clean the grit and all that, or even eat it in a cooking session with some space sweets. If anyone like that happens to stumble across this post, then please take regard to the simple fact that if someone pushing out weed is gritting the stuff with silica or glass, you can imagine that the grit weed is possible or even likely to contain something that isn't as detectable as glass. Having said that, you would imagine that a person wanting to profit from the cannabis by doing anything sinister will also add a hell of a lot more things that could potentially be invisible to the eye such as chemicals and the sort. I am not a master grower, in fact I haven't grown green at all in my life, but still, you have to wonder how sinister of an operation it could be. Contamination implies a lot more than just grit, it implies that someone out there is willing to use malicious means to profit without regard to the users.

There have been cases where the first toke tasted as if it was laced with the most screwed up chemicals in the world. A lot like the difference between organic tobacco and your classic boxed up 400+ chemical containing cigarette if any of you have tried both to know the difference. So therefore, I urge people to have additional caution, and not to think that finding a way of getting rid of the grit will effectively solve the problem.

This morning I also stumbled upon a few questions on the net about cooking the grit, thus not breathing in the nasty additives to the cannabis. I know of a personal case where grit was cooked and the next morning anal bleeding occurred, from an experienced smoker of which has not had any health issues for the most part of his life. This isn't saying that the grit did it, but it has to make one wonder.


Not wanting to be the wise Ganja Jedi here, I'm just another concerned member of the public like all of you out there and wanted to add my two pence. I'm sure there will be people reading this that have a lot more experience and knowledge than what I do and please don't misunderstand my post as lecturing. It isn't. I'm just as concerned as everyone else.

Smoke Safely,
Data Pasta

You have made many good points. I think the most important need is to abolish the "tradition" of mixing with tobackgo in hot burning "joints" which make it so much harder to detect impurities in the herb, both because of the distraction of the tobackgo taste and because of the heat shock and obliteration of taste sense.

The ideal situation would be to have (a) a one-hitter-- this means a screened utensil small enough to accommodate 25-mg. tokes, and (b) a 1/16" screen sifter with which to grind a little bit of controlled-particle-size herb for a test toke. Whether your weedprovider will tolerate this is one good way to judge whoooom to purchase from.

If your utensil has a narrow enough opening-- 1/4" is good, 5.5-mm. even better-- this makes it possible to "vapourise" by holding a moderate lighter flame up to an inch below the opening (while sucking continuously very slow) so that you have total control over the entry temperature which should be 200-C or 392-F, and maintain this for ten or fifteen seconds. During this time the herb should darken but not start glowing yet. (Then tocus interruptus and 30 warm wet W's in and out of a breathbaggy in honort of the dawgwagner.)

For decades the typical average pwffswcker has been trained to hurry up and get it burning (IAGAS -- "I aint gettin any syndrome") so this may take several tries to master. Practice it a few times on any herb you already have (even oregano, or that organic tobackgo mentioned above) so you are ready when confronting the providerperson.