The way that most smokers take a hit of pot also needlessly takes a hit on their health. But you can reduce those health risks during every phase of the cannabis smoking experience. This book presents health tips for smoking cannabis, including more healthful ways to use rolling papers, hand pipes, waterpipes, herbal vaporizers, and even lighters.

Learn how to smoke cannabis in a way that reduces the health risks of smoking.

As an herbal remedy, cannabis can lift your mood and can treat a long list of ailments. But the way that most of us take a hit of pot needlessly takes a hit on our health. It is high time for health-conscious cannabis consumers to learn a new way of smoking that reduces its risks. In Mindful Marijuana Smoking, Mark Mathew Braunstein offers sound advice on every phase of the cannabis smoking experience, presenting health tips based on solid science. Whether with rolling papers, hand pipes, waterpipes, or herbal vaporizers, each method of cannabinoid delivery has both risks and rewards. Chapters are devoted to each method so that you can learn how to maximize their benefits and reduce their hazards, as well as how to protect your health even before you take a puff. And once you’ve inhaled the smoke, this book assures you that you don’t need to hold your breath to reap all the benefits of cannabis.

Additionally, this book teaches readers how to assure an herb’s purity, as both black market and corporate cannabis keep dirty secrets about how they were grown, and readers will learn about the potential impurities in rolling papers and vaping oils. The stronger the dose, the less you need to toke, so you’ll find instructions on how to properly store cannabis to retain its potency. Finally, after you’ve smoked, you’ll find guidance on why and how to relieve your parched mouth and to replenish nutrients that are depleted by smoking. Potheads and patients, tenderfoot tokers and seasoned stoners, dabbling dilettantes and cannabis connoisseurs, all need to read this book. By following its many health tips, when you light up, you can lighten up.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Clearing the Smoke from Cannabis

Part One: HEALTH TIPS: 10 Health Hacks and Healthful Safeguards

1) Breathe Easy: Mindful Breathing

3) Joints: Taking an Active Role with Rolling Papers

4) Hand Pipes: More than Just a Pipe Dream

5) Waterpipes: The Big Bong Theory

6) Herbal Vaporizers: Don’t Go Up in Smoke

7) Seeking Purity: Keeping Your Drugs Off Drugs

8) Preserving Potency: Evading Ephemerality

9) Water Cure and Green Diet: When Every Mouthful Counts

10) Don’t Worry! When You Light Up, Lighten Up

Part Two: HEALTH RISKS: The Downside of Getting High

11) Cough It Up! Putting Lungs on the Line

12) Heartbreaking News: Elevated Blood Pressure and Heartbeat

Works Cited

Notes

Index

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