Gen Z smoked weed through a pen at Target so Gen Betta Gamma Souffle could hit 100% THC-DMT at Megalow Mart while taking a final exam for the Apple Mars program.
I always get the feeling that I have to keep every last bit. Spill a little weed on a throw? Omg omg shake it out onto a table and brush up all the bits!
I keep forgetting it's so easy to get and I don't have to hang out with some creepy dude with a gas mask bong to get it.
Dunno if you're in a grow legal state, but a simple setup and you'll literally have more bud than you know what to do with. I keep the best buds for a 3ish month supply, start new plants and everything else is for "experiments".
I also lost my socks on my shoulder the other day so 🫠
I literally cried the first time I walked into a store and bought weed. I got in the car, looked at my beautiful trichome encrusted beauties, broke down and wept.
Moved to Oregon from an illegal state several years ago and the second dispensary I walked into I saw an employee come out of the back carrying ~20 gallons of bud over his shoulder in a translucent trash bag. My mind was blown, and that was the moment I knew I made the right decision moving.
Also in Oregon and I'm literally friends with my budtenders now lol I love it so much and we all marvel at how criminal it is for cannabis to not be federally legal.
It's probably one of the best investments any state could make in terms of population satisfaction, economic growth, safety vs alcohol. I have not smoked in years but it's a fun treat every now and then.
I know! I have kids and I’ve tried to just explain that it’s not that different than drinking alcohol. It feels weird to say it, but my oldest just kinda shrugged and went through her day
I was walking down the street with a quarter in my backpack, then suddenly 2 cops come out from around the corner in front of me. I nearly shit myself. Then I realized I'm lucky enough to live in a place where this is now legal.
I’m pretty much always holding so when they legalized it was a huuuuuge stress relief. I drive slow as fuck anyway and now when a cop rolls up behind me I don’t even stress at all anymore. It’s like even if they do pull me over they can’t bust me or even take my weed away.
No, actually gen x stood up to the law and distributed cannabis to people who were dying. That's how the green wave began. They put their own freedom at risk and a lot of people and medical patients were incarcerated during that time. People died so that you could have the rights you do today.
Never forget, your freedom to use cannabis is built on the courage of gen x; those few who questioned authority and created the world they dreamed of with action.
Haha. The key is to use a small socket or something. Burning a whole gram at a time was a nightmare with the regs but just a little pinch of some actual good weed makes a fine portion. Then repeat til hypnosis lol
I always thought of myself as a weed conservationist. Couldn’t roll to save my life. Pipes made me smell like weed. But a single hit of my gb and I was good to go for a few hours. I’d buy 3.5 grams every two weeks, but was still high almost all day with 3/4 well timed hits.
Hell yeah. It is def the most cost effective method i have found. I was also never that good at rolling and not a huge fan of pipes or bubblers, though they had their place. My friends used to joke and call me the GB Evangelist because if we hung out with people who had never used one I would always try to convert them. They also called me The Conductor because I would take the tray and just speedily pull round and after round after round for the whole room, to keep the momentum going lol
Man i was the gravity bong guy in my group. Made an excellent mouthpiece out of an old thicker bottle cap and a salt shaker top. That thing stayed in my glove box for years, and a bucket in the truck. Just needed a 2 liter bottle and some water and was ready to go.
I was also excellent at rolling blunts too thou. Just gummies for me these days, my lungs need a break after my 20s.
Haha nice. My brother and I always had an old sweet tea pitcher and cut off 2 liter in the trunk ready to go and one in the house for all of our friends and bandmates. Old reliable. They look janky as hell but get the job done perfectly. We actually live next door to eachother now so things have come full circle. I rarely smoke these days, maybe once a week but when I do it's the same old set up. It's kind of a trip lol
That's awesome. We did the same sometimes when I visited family up north...in the summer have you ever lit a bowl with the concentrated sunlight of a magnifying glass??? 🥸🧐
Throw a little ice in the water too. Or, hear me out, ice and milk in your bong produces some of the thickest densest rips. Don’t knock it till you try it
I swear Sobe made those glass bottles for exactly this reason lol. They had that little indent towards the bottom to very easily and cleanly make a hole and the bottle fit perfectly in a big gulp cup.
And also Apple bowls were great in a pinch, like out back of the grocery store we all worked on a Friday night when everyone forgot their piece. Head over to produce on the way out for “our break”.
The only reason why I haven't made a gravity bong Recently, is I can't find my little one Hitter to shove into the cap. That and I have yet to go back to the dispensary, to just buy another one.
Apple was my first thought of makeshift devices. Grav bong was definitely a fixture on the counter at my stoner friends' house. Walk in, put your books down, hit the grav, play Madden. Circa 2002ish
I was pushing 40 and hadn’t smoked in a long time. A friend gave me a gram or 2 to help with some pain I had. The wife and I put the kids to bed and go on the back patio to partake after about 30 minutes.
Went back to our youth for sure.
Made the apple pipe because no pipe/papers.
Started smoking thinking it was safe.
Busted! Kid starts coming outside so the wife and I scramble to hide shit and pretend we weren’t doing anything.
Felt like a kid getting busted by parents all over again.
High as hell and laughed our asses off how we were smoking
Sure did. I remember having the best sleep that I was desperate for. Not sure if it was a coincidence but I really did have some long lasting relief too. I credit the sleep which was due to the cannabis.
Way back around 2008 I was working at Sam's club as a butcher. Walked in the giant freezer one day and a friend of mine had an apple in his hand and a mouth just full of apple, so much his cheeks were puffed like a squirrel. He was desperately trying to chew but failing. When he realized it was me and not our boss he started spitting out chunks of apple and ash.
I used to manage a Radio Shack. There was a well known trick in my district to make a piece out of the company supplied cap of a blue and a fitting from the parts drawer.
Sooo much false or just straight-up dangerous information in that book. I'm honestly surprised half of us didn't accidentally end up in the morgue from playing around with the shit in there
Some of it was so blatantly false you’d have to be a moron to think it would work.
I did the smoke bomb recipe, worked great. Did the tennis ball full of strike anywhere match heads, totally awesome. Built a red box. Hijacked a pay phone’s temporary change vault. And nearly burnt friend’s garage down making gel fuel by dissolving styrofoam in gasoline. Probably a few other things I shouldn’t admit to publicly as well. I had fun with it. Maybe a little too much.
Fuck yeah. We made ours out of 2.5” conduit we stole from a construction site. Grill igniter wired to a switch and a few cans of engine starter spray.
We go super lucky that a supermarket went out of business right around the time we built the cannon and they were selling 24 can flats of store brand soda for a buck. We bought like 10 bucks worth and it turns out that 2.5” conduit accepts a standard size 12oz soda can perfectly. Shake those puppies up and fire em at trees and stuff. We blasted a lot of sodas out of that thing 😂
I almost burned down my parents house making the smoke bomb on a hollowed out gas grill, a sterno and a soup can. It ignited and blasted flaming napalm and a fountain of sparks. A true Beavis and Butthead moment.
I cooked my smoke bombs on the gas grill too lol! I was up front with my mom about what I was doing.
I remember being REALLY apprehensive about buying potassium nitrate (saltpeter) at the drug store. I was afraid that the person working there was gonna ask me what I was gonna do with it and I didn’t have a good answer and figured “making smoke bombs” wasn’t gonna be a good one.
Because you were reading the version edited by the fbi. It's the only version most people have seen. The recipes in the original book were real, many taken straight from military field manuals.
We made a lot of bongs from a lot of things. There was a gravity bong in the walk-in at Togo's sandwiches. It was a 5 gallon bucket, a 2 liter of orange soda, and a deep socket for a bowl.
My cousins still make fun of me to this day, almost 30 years later, because of my first gravity bong in a bucket hit. I was wearing brand new jeans and the bong was in the woods and it had just rained. The ground was kinda muddy so I dropped my pants (had boxers on) so I could kneel down to take the hit and not get the knees of my jeans dirty. Even at my 99 year old grandma's funeral two months ago were they giving me shit.
And we are in the middle. I definitely took a screen out of the bathroom faucet and used it in my pipe and I have definitely taken hits from Pen Griffey Jr while out in public
When smoking in house after the parents went to bed we just opened a window and put a blanket against the door so the smoke and smell wouldn't travel to the hallway from underneath the dor. And we'd lit 2 or 3 cigarettes and let them burn in the ashtray just to be sure....
Outside you just you just smoked, not too many people cared.
As for devices? We just rolled a joint or made a makeshift waterpipe with a pen and a small soda bottle it wasn't hard...
I have no idea what you are describing... Maybe it's my English but I have no idea what dryer sheets are or a sink faucet isn't a sink like a lavabo? Those things are huge no? How can they be related to smoking a joint?
My wife and I still have those seeds! We have sandwich baggies ( more than 1! ) full of seeds we have saved over 30+ years.
The stems? I made Tea out of them when I had enough. It wouldn't get you high ( of course ) but I liked the taste, and it was something I did no one else did.
Now let's talk about scraping that bowl for the resign to smoke, haven't seen mention of that yet. LOL.
In addition to the other reply it tastes like shit and the stems can tear through a joint if you aren’t careful. And both interfere with the slow burning of a joint or blunt. And you have less volume for the flower.
Well you generally wouldn't use a screen with a soda can pipe. It wouldn't work too well with a pipe that already doesn't work too well. I always had a pipe back in the day though, and I still smoke from a pipe. Those weed pens don't do anything for me.
Right? I guess people were seriously overthinking the structural permanence and necessity of their can bowls? We would just crush the fucker into shape, stab it with a pen 5-6 times, then use it for a single night. It wasn't supposed to be a long-term, filtered option. It was an I-forgot-my-bowl-do-you-have-one-oh-well-I'll-make-a-can-bowl-until-I-can-go-get-it option.
I remember when I was college my parents' friends were over and were talking about catching one of their kids smoking their stash. She said "the one thing I don't understand is that he had a toilet paper tube with a dryer sheet stuck over the end" and I piped up with "yeah dumb stoners think that blowing smoke through the dryer sheet makes it so that you can't smell the weed smoke".
Then all four of them looked at me like I had just sprouted a second head and I remembered that I urgently had to be anywhere else but there.
I dunno how may faucet screens I stole as a teen for a screen. All I know is somewhere out there someone 30 years ago went to change their screen and went " WTF?! "
I know it's a demo model, but you should try paper clips if you ever have to do one of these for real. Straighten a paper clip enough that you can use the end to poke a dozen or so holes in a circular pattern.
I used to keep one of these stashed in a floor vent in my room in high school before I was old enough to buy a real pipe from a head shop.
Yup. Just some tiny holes acted as enough of screen. Stealing screens out of grandma's faucets was for pipes you made out of plumbing parts you got from the hardware store.
We just used a small rachet piece that would fit on the end of pe-tube, taped it up, stuck into a 600ml pop bottle to make a bong. No screen - you just pulled it through when the weed was burned.
But for real like we are totally ignoring straight up aluminum foil pipes which I smoked out of hundreds I'm going to have metal poisoning and Alzheimer's
A bygone era of hot knives, supers, hot boxing, and strategically licking the doob to prevent canoeing. The peak of peer collaboration and problem solving.
I always hated hot boxing. Sitting there in a cloud of other dudes nasty breath. Not getting any higher than if we just smoked in the open. Especially if it was hot outside. Walking around smelling so much like weed, you could hear the odor.
Plus you never get enough of a cloud for it to actually feel that fun or interesting. I’ve smoked quarter oz blunts in closed vehicles and it’s not like a fog machine or something. There’s a slight haze maybe but you’re right there’s no real benefit, it’s kind of gross if you think about it, and it just soaks the odor in for no reason.
Same. A couple of opportunities and I went nope. While friends hot boxed the car with a bong, I sat on the dropped tailgate enjoying thin blunt under the moon and stars.
Sooo many quests. Sometimes you would start to think is this all worth it just to get a dime bag of weed. Then you and your friends would be at the park, behind the tennis courts hitting the beer/soda can pipe and it would be all worth it.
My mom told me a story about catching me smoking pot when I was probably like 14 or 15. She was SO mad. I guess when she told her friends about it, they were just like "Jeez, it's just pot. Everybody does it"
She got comfortable with it as I got older and she started using it after she got breast cancer, and she still does now (beat the cancer).
Oh man, none of our crew's parents were ok with smoking weed at all, or so we thought - until caught one time by one buddy's parents who at first were a bit mad we were smoking already in high school, hoping we would have waited at least. It was also atill illegal in Canada at that time (late 90's). But at the time we were obviously a bunch of metalhead burnouts already so what could be expected... anyway they did end up laughing about it and admitted they came up in the 70's and used to/still would smoke if given the chance too. We were terrified up until that moment and then it was like the dam broke. We got high with them a couple times after but it was still a bit weird since we were like 16 and they were more than twice our age. I think their son became their weed dealer after that lol. They understood we just wanted to do our own thing and mostly left it at that.
BUT!! The absolute best thing was that buddy's dad was a trucker and had a habit of snagging the occasional frozen fast food items that would "fall off the truck" and get damaged from time to time. Nothing major, but their freezer was well-stocked with breaded chicken and such from our favorite restaraunts. They also happened to have a full-on deep frier. This was huge for a bunch of rural kids with no concept of food delivery. Prior to being "caught" we used to sometimes fire it up to make some snacks, but once they knew we were smoking, they would fry up stuff for us to munch out on when we were over & obviously high since it was safer for them to do so. Didn't even have to do the work. Amazing.
My mom never caught me in the act, but she did confiscate my stash a few times when she found it. When I was in my late 20s she dropped a bombshell on me - my parents smoked all the weed they every took from me.
Then I got her back by telling her the reason she eventually stopped finding my weed was because I started storing it in the floor vent in my room.
A friend’s mom came home early and we were in the backyard smoking a blunt. We were just out of high school and smoking a blunt. She just complained about how stinky our cigars were and went back inside.
We thought we were so lucky. Found out years later that she knew what it was but wasn’t in the mood to deal with it since we were all adults at that point.
Hey I’m a millennial and we used cand and toilet bowl busters too; only we had to poke holes in the can we don’t even have a sink screen. I’ve never even heard of that, was that a risk of thing, you go to Home Depot to buy that? Poke some holes, fuck.
Slice off a length of someone’s garden hose, raid someone’s fridge for a plastic juice or soft drink bottle, aluminium foil pinched into a cone shape and Blu Tack as an adhesive and away you go.
I was a kid, and sneaky enough that I felt bad for those kids who HAD to use sploofs. I was annoyed…bounce sheets? Just covers up the smell. So I bought a kitchen fume hood filter, cut out the activated charcoal screen, and gave some away to my friends.
Same but with an M&M minis tube way back when first started. When I stole my bike back I also took fucker's devil bong but because I was 15 i couldn't bring that shit home... and that's how a devil bong joined the weird rained on porn stashed in the woods.
The Pringles can, copper tubing and foil bong I constructed at 16yo is the smoothest hitting bong I've ever used. Spent a lot of time trying to replicate it but never could
Yall were fancy with your screens. We just pierced holes in the side to create a makeshift one and pierced a hole on the other side for the choke. Bonus, we just broke the can's tab in half to get a pointy object to fabricate it.
Hey, us millennials had to get creative too. But we did get the pens while we still young enough to enjoy it and appreciate the stark contrast that happened in just a few short years for us.
2 liter soda pop bottle, cut the bottom off, fill a small plastic trash can with water, cut hole in the bottle cap, heat up bottle cap to melting point w/ lighter, drop screen into melting bottle cap hole, let cool down- ready to party.
that gravity bong hit you in the solar plexus like Ivan Drago in Rocky 4
Yeah…they also inherited a literal dumpster fire of a world. They were literally born into existential crisis and haven’t had a break from perpetual existential crisis yet. So maybe we can stop talking about them like they owe us something. They genuinely don’t, and it’s a very boomer move to act like they do.
Most of us gen z also had sploofs, can pipes etc too. I've seen guys use nothing but a fist, lighter and some weed to smoke
Dumpster fire aside weed vapes aren't that old but it's been interesting seeing it go from caveman style where you put weed on a heating coil to oil cartridges
My friends and I called the paper roll with dryer sheets, a Zamboni. It was a brilliant tool. Milk Jug Gravity bongs were a popular favorite. Yes, the soda can with faucet screens were a thing. Though we could polk holes into the can with a fork and pray we don't inhale hot embers.
Graphix Bong's and Honey Bear bong's were a solid choice too. When I was a kid glass pipes were for crack heads. Wood pipes ruled the pot head world. My favorite was the ProtoPipe. I still have mine in my secret box. Shhhh!
I remember my first toke, with a purple "kind" bud called Krypto, in Boca Raton Fla. I miss my friends.
Too young. You had to be 18 to enter the head shop, but you better believe the week of my 18th birthday I got a sweet glass bong with inlaid color-changing copper. My friends and I called it the Technicolor Dream Bong.
We had an incredibly high CFM exhaust fan in our basement bathroom. Best part is that it vented straight outside. More than once my mom would catch whiffs when she was outside. I just told her that our neighbors smoked on their deck. That small bathroom got me through 4 years of smokin in high school without getting caught.
P.S. - Mom, if you're reading this, I made it all up for fake internet points from strangers. It was always the neighbors.
P.S.S. - That last bit there was a joke. My mom actually smokes more than me now for her MS. When I was young, it was the 'Devils Grass', but when it helps with tremors it's all of a sudden the best medicinal plant that is just misunderstood.
P.S.S.S. - That last bit is true. I happen to get most of my supply from her these day. Grade A.
P.S.S.S.S. - I was under the influence of the Devils Grass as I wrote this. I hope you've enjoyed the journey.
Yall stay pretending like you are the only ones who had to do shit like this. I guarantee you Gen Z was/is doing this shit where its not legal. I only had a water bottle bong and apple pipes until I hit 23.
Some of y'all were wild, lol. I didn't have a clue about any of this shit growing up. First time (and last, so far) I encountered weed was 100% by accident. Somebody made 2 batches of chocolate cupcakes and didn't tell me one of them was "special."
This happened to me with Brownies and I thought I needed to go to the hospital bc I didn’t know what was happening.
The mental hospital. I thought I had gone crazy. And this was what it was like to go crazy and this was how all those people in the mental institution had gotten there.
Right? I thought I had a concussion or something... I'd just gotten back from a school field trip where we went skiing, and I took a couple big falls, so...
Certain family members who may or may not have been responsible, said I was sick enough not to go to school the next day, but that's a giant hole in my memory. I didn't even find out what went down until like 2 years later.
During the 2000 election my college roommate made a water bong out of a 2 liter. He named it George W. Bong and used it exclusively while watching the debates
I've never heard of anyone using any sort of screen when smoking out of a can. You just poke multiple holes in a rough circle shape, ends up looking like holes from a shower drain.
Not to mention spend a hour at some creepy dude’s shitty apartment while his pet massive boa slithers around freely just to score a pinched quarter of shake and seeds so that you can now order perfectly pre-rolled joints and assorted edibles online and pick them up via drive thru.
Hey, most of us older millennials had to do this shit, too. Some of my best nights were ripping a homemade water bong at a bonfire in my buddy's back yard.
the faucet screens were for things like those cheap fimo-clay-and-metal bowls or really any cheap pipe/bowl and such. I used to use one of my french horn mouth pieces as the bowl for this one foot purple plastic bong I had (could not be trusted with anything glass). Def needed a screen cos I was always too lazy to get out all the seeds. The best was when we’d fill my little purple pal with SoCo and ice. good times…
I remember when a friend learned about using dryer sheets inside of a toilet paper roll from watching some moral panic episode of Oprah. Life changing, we could smoke a bowl practically anywhere.
Are you referring to the new farm bill. It’s not banning weed, you turnip. It’s fixing the loophole that let sketchy mfs sell weed right next to boner pills at any gas station.
The other day I went on my phone, ordered from the dispensary and drove over to get it and was done the entire process in about 30 minutes. Kids will never understand the struggle of waiting around all day for a weird guy who keeps saying he’s “20 minutes away” but shows up 4 hours late and then makes you hang out with him for another couple of hours before being able to just chill and smoke.
You guys used screens? We just poked a bunch of small holes in soda cans. Also who the fuck could afford dryer sheets, just smoke that shit outside. My friends and I conveniently walked to each other’s houses basically constantly.
Look back on that, knowing how much vaporized aluminum I inhaled isn’t a good memory at all.
I'm still amazed at the hoops I jumped through just to avoid being seen smoking. Wading through a filled in marsh to reach an area of my neighborhood "park" that abutted against a highway, but was surrounded by tall grass and fallen trees just so I can smoke in relative peace and avoid getting arrested.
Pretty sure statistically millennials legalized but I am not trying to get in trouble here. Ban me I am from 1982, voted to legalize twice (Colorado and Nevada) and won both times. Love ya boomers.
(Sorry this post hit my popular page and I distinctly remember the younger ones of us legalizing.)
My bedroom window screen went missing when I was in 8th grade. I lived in town and sometimes my friends would visit via that window at night or I’d sneak out briefly. Come to find out it was stolen by one to make weed paraphernalia.
I would almost take the 80s and 90s again, just so the new folks didn't toke up fucking everywhere and then act surprised that people are pissed that pot smoke makes the entire building/house/neighborhood reek.
Word up. Coming from a girl who ripped a teeny hole in her window screen so I could ash while exhaling from a toilet paper roll. Also - shout out to makeshift BT bottles. A beer bottle and stone. IYKYK.
JosephSturgill7@reddit
Gen Z smoked weed through a pen at Target so Gen Betta Gamma Souffle could hit 100% THC-DMT at Megalow Mart while taking a final exam for the Apple Mars program.
Middleage_dad@reddit
No matter how many times I order cannabis delivery, I still get paranoid the cops are going to rush in and bust me.
1_art_please@reddit
I always get the feeling that I have to keep every last bit. Spill a little weed on a throw? Omg omg shake it out onto a table and brush up all the bits!
I keep forgetting it's so easy to get and I don't have to hang out with some creepy dude with a gas mask bong to get it.
loopedlight@reddit
This is the equivalent of growing up in the Great Depression and irrationally rationing.
Neither-Principle139@reddit
Feels like the way I grew up, with parents and uncle growing the shit in my closet with a UV lamp…
madgirafe@reddit
Dunno if you're in a grow legal state, but a simple setup and you'll literally have more bud than you know what to do with. I keep the best buds for a 3ish month supply, start new plants and everything else is for "experiments".
I also lost my socks on my shoulder the other day so 🫠
libmrduckz@reddit
continues looking around with increasingly furious incredulity… in circles…
Badbullet@reddit
"I just had them!"
sweetspetites@reddit
Nor hang out in their apartment for an ungodly amount of time to make it “not so obvious”.
loopedlight@reddit
Bro, my one backup guy was 400 pounds and absolutely stunk. I can still smell it, ugh.
Upset-Management-879@reddit
Dude had the WORST Xiayou in the world but insisted on it just had to button mash to make THAT not obvious too.
Absurd_Pork@reddit
TFW you realize the two of you disagree vehemently on something and you have to bite your tongue...
OkSmoke9195@reddit
Lol I can taste the memories this conjures
msheehan418@reddit
lol! Sometimes I still have to!
Slightly_ToastedBoy@reddit
They’re slowly building their case against you. Remain vigilant. 🤣😂✌🏼
Middleage_dad@reddit
Slow. clap.
KochuJang@reddit
I literally cried the first time I walked into a store and bought weed. I got in the car, looked at my beautiful trichome encrusted beauties, broke down and wept.
IFartOnCats4Fun@reddit
Moved to Oregon from an illegal state several years ago and the second dispensary I walked into I saw an employee come out of the back carrying ~20 gallons of bud over his shoulder in a translucent trash bag. My mind was blown, and that was the moment I knew I made the right decision moving.
hallowpond@reddit
Also in Oregon and I'm literally friends with my budtenders now lol I love it so much and we all marvel at how criminal it is for cannabis to not be federally legal.
godnightx_x@reddit
It's probably one of the best investments any state could make in terms of population satisfaction, economic growth, safety vs alcohol. I have not smoked in years but it's a fun treat every now and then.
musa_velutina@reddit
It's crazy. I can't imagine the kids today treating weed like it's nothing while growing up. Imagine getting to live your whole life like that...
Middleage_dad@reddit
I know! I have kids and I’ve tried to just explain that it’s not that different than drinking alcohol. It feels weird to say it, but my oldest just kinda shrugged and went through her day
dishwasher_mayhem@reddit
If your delivery guy gets into an accident, the police might be the ones completing the delivery.
attaboy000@reddit
I was walking down the street with a quarter in my backpack, then suddenly 2 cops come out from around the corner in front of me. I nearly shit myself. Then I realized I'm lucky enough to live in a place where this is now legal.
NachoNachoDan@reddit
I’m pretty much always holding so when they legalized it was a huuuuuge stress relief. I drive slow as fuck anyway and now when a cop rolls up behind me I don’t even stress at all anymore. It’s like even if they do pull me over they can’t bust me or even take my weed away.
r3dstar77@reddit (OP)
Still get paranoid after smoking and someone said there musk be a skunk in the neighborhood
virtualjupiter@reddit
No, actually gen x stood up to the law and distributed cannabis to people who were dying. That's how the green wave began. They put their own freedom at risk and a lot of people and medical patients were incarcerated during that time. People died so that you could have the rights you do today.
Never forget, your freedom to use cannabis is built on the courage of gen x; those few who questioned authority and created the world they dreamed of with action.
SenoraRaton@reddit
What is a sploof, Alex.
OregonTripleBeam@reddit
Shout out to the apple pipe makers of yesteryear
Candid-Culture3956@reddit
Gravity bongs were the ultimate in stoner macguyver technology.
styrofoamcouch@reddit
The first time I saw a gb I couldn't believe it. No wasted weed!
msheehan418@reddit
Bring me an avocado an ice pick and my snorkel! Trust me, I’ve made bongs with less
Iamthegreenheather@reddit
I came here to find this comment.
msheehan418@reddit
🤣
EdwardDorito@reddit
Honestly still my friends and i's preferred method of administration even 25 years later. Just add ice 🤫
madgirafe@reddit
My lungs though 🫁 🔥 💀
EdwardDorito@reddit
Haha. The key is to use a small socket or something. Burning a whole gram at a time was a nightmare with the regs but just a little pinch of some actual good weed makes a fine portion. Then repeat til hypnosis lol
whothehellistony@reddit
I always thought of myself as a weed conservationist. Couldn’t roll to save my life. Pipes made me smell like weed. But a single hit of my gb and I was good to go for a few hours. I’d buy 3.5 grams every two weeks, but was still high almost all day with 3/4 well timed hits.
Simpler times.
EdwardDorito@reddit
Hell yeah. It is def the most cost effective method i have found. I was also never that good at rolling and not a huge fan of pipes or bubblers, though they had their place. My friends used to joke and call me the GB Evangelist because if we hung out with people who had never used one I would always try to convert them. They also called me The Conductor because I would take the tray and just speedily pull round and after round after round for the whole room, to keep the momentum going lol
Capable_Swordfish701@reddit
Man i was the gravity bong guy in my group. Made an excellent mouthpiece out of an old thicker bottle cap and a salt shaker top. That thing stayed in my glove box for years, and a bucket in the truck. Just needed a 2 liter bottle and some water and was ready to go.
I was also excellent at rolling blunts too thou. Just gummies for me these days, my lungs need a break after my 20s.
EdwardDorito@reddit
Haha nice. My brother and I always had an old sweet tea pitcher and cut off 2 liter in the trunk ready to go and one in the house for all of our friends and bandmates. Old reliable. They look janky as hell but get the job done perfectly. We actually live next door to eachother now so things have come full circle. I rarely smoke these days, maybe once a week but when I do it's the same old set up. It's kind of a trip lol
SplakyD@reddit
Y'all had to be from the South, right?
whothehellistony@reddit
lol yup
EdwardDorito@reddit
Lol bingo
SplakyD@reddit
I was born, raised, and currently reside in rural Alabama, so I feel you on this one.
EdwardDorito@reddit
North Florida here, so def can relate
madgirafe@reddit
Yeah I should make one again. It was always our goto just because of that. High as hell for a bit of bud
Purple_Shop6660@reddit
Whelp might have to whip one up for old times sake
tjdux@reddit
They make full blown glass gravity rigs these days. Not cheap if I remember correctly but they certainly exhist
OkGeologist2229@reddit
We used to pack the bong with snow.
EdwardDorito@reddit
That's awesome. We did the same sometimes when I visited family up north...in the summer have you ever lit a bowl with the concentrated sunlight of a magnifying glass??? 🥸🧐
IrregularPackage@reddit
You could probably light a bong with another bong this way….
polygraf@reddit
Hell yeah brother solar rips out of a gravity bong were some of the cleanest highs I’ve ever had
EdwardDorito@reddit
Haha yes! I am so glad someone else has done this. Clean effect and tastes soooo nice 🤌
polygraf@reddit
Throw a little ice in the water too. Or, hear me out, ice and milk in your bong produces some of the thickest densest rips. Don’t knock it till you try it
EdwardDorito@reddit
Mmmmm gourmet 😎
Iamthegreenheather@reddit
That's such a good idea.
TheCornerator@reddit
I've made a bong out of nothing but a squirrel some tape and a bong.
EdwardDorito@reddit
😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️
A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit
my people!
Illustrious-Bat1553@reddit
meanwhile they are letting cell phones raise their kids. They need to stay out of hate websites
rand0fand0@reddit
Nice. Did u put a hose in it so u could hit it like a hookah?
evergreenviking@reddit
I swear Sobe made those glass bottles for exactly this reason lol. They had that little indent towards the bottom to very easily and cleanly make a hole and the bottle fit perfectly in a big gulp cup.
Xenothing@reddit
Things changed when they switched to plastic bottles 😞
ptjunkie@reddit
Smoke is so thick off that forced vacuum. Yikes.
Odocat@reddit
The ole 2 liter in the 3 liter trick never fails !
SeveralExcuses@reddit
Gen Z, can confirm a homemade gravity bong high was my best high
Damet_Dave@reddit
2 liter Pepsi bottle.
And also Apple bowls were great in a pinch, like out back of the grocery store we all worked on a Friday night when everyone forgot their piece. Head over to produce on the way out for “our break”.
Then back through the bakery for a doughnut.
Kitjing@reddit
The only reason why I haven't made a gravity bong Recently, is I can't find my little one Hitter to shove into the cap. That and I have yet to go back to the dispensary, to just buy another one.
snowmountain_monkey@reddit
We connected one to a gas mask.
The_Laughing_Man_82@reddit
My first hit was off a gravity bong. Good times.
pheldozer@reddit
Have you seen the new ones they’re making these days? I saw one from a German company that was like $400 😂
S_A_R_K@reddit
Until the internet taught me how to make a waterfall bong
Noolivesplease@reddit
Apple was my first thought of makeshift devices. Grav bong was definitely a fixture on the counter at my stoner friends' house. Walk in, put your books down, hit the grav, play Madden. Circa 2002ish
colostitute@reddit
I was pushing 40 and hadn’t smoked in a long time. A friend gave me a gram or 2 to help with some pain I had. The wife and I put the kids to bed and go on the back patio to partake after about 30 minutes.
Went back to our youth for sure.
Felt like a kid getting busted by parents all over again.
High as hell and laughed our asses off how we were smoking
LACna@reddit
Ovet 40 here.... Did it help out with the pain?
I've been dealing with various pain in differing amounts for over a yr & pain meds just aren't cutting it.
colostitute@reddit
Sure did. I remember having the best sleep that I was desperate for. Not sure if it was a coincidence but I really did have some long lasting relief too. I credit the sleep which was due to the cannabis.
Went and got my medical card after that.
MaestroLogical@reddit
Way back around 2008 I was working at Sam's club as a butcher. Walked in the giant freezer one day and a friend of mine had an apple in his hand and a mouth just full of apple, so much his cheeks were puffed like a squirrel. He was desperately trying to chew but failing. When he realized it was me and not our boss he started spitting out chunks of apple and ash.
JPhrog@reddit
How I'm imagining you right in the moment
Iamthegreenheather@reddit
This is wholesome.
BlessdRTheFreaks@reddit
The real ones know how to make a pipe out of a banana
gunznmarigolds@reddit
Made one out of a potato once and had an allergic reaction. Whimps.
Rough-Boot9086@reddit
I used a russet potato during covid
Jose_xixpac@reddit
Seed Cleaners Union in the house!
Scrape those frisbees' ..
kobayashi_maru_fail@reddit
Fellow Oregonian, fellow apple carver checking in.
Dear-Finish-3448@reddit
I built one out of a 2-liter Diet Coke bottle and the barrel of a bic pen once in the 90s. My nickname was McGuyver.
christopherDdouglas@reddit
Once used a potato. Only once though.
Protoman@reddit
I used to manage a Radio Shack. There was a well known trick in my district to make a piece out of the company supplied cap of a blue and a fitting from the parts drawer.
I still have one. Good times.
NachoNachoDan@reddit
Former radio shack employee from the early 2000s checking in.
How was I not told about this?!! We did all sorts of horrible shit when our manager wasn’t around 🤣
TreverKJ@reddit
Shout out to baking banna peels in the oven and trying to grind them up and smoke them because your bud said it was a way to get high.
NachoNachoDan@reddit
Ansrchists cookbook agrees.
WiseDirt@reddit
Sooo much false or just straight-up dangerous information in that book. I'm honestly surprised half of us didn't accidentally end up in the morgue from playing around with the shit in there
NachoNachoDan@reddit
Some of it was so blatantly false you’d have to be a moron to think it would work.
I did the smoke bomb recipe, worked great. Did the tennis ball full of strike anywhere match heads, totally awesome. Built a red box. Hijacked a pay phone’s temporary change vault. And nearly burnt friend’s garage down making gel fuel by dissolving styrofoam in gasoline. Probably a few other things I shouldn’t admit to publicly as well. I had fun with it. Maybe a little too much.
foozebox@reddit
Potato cannon, I presume?
NachoNachoDan@reddit
Fuck yeah. We made ours out of 2.5” conduit we stole from a construction site. Grill igniter wired to a switch and a few cans of engine starter spray.
We go super lucky that a supermarket went out of business right around the time we built the cannon and they were selling 24 can flats of store brand soda for a buck. We bought like 10 bucks worth and it turns out that 2.5” conduit accepts a standard size 12oz soda can perfectly. Shake those puppies up and fire em at trees and stuff. We blasted a lot of sodas out of that thing 😂
foozebox@reddit
I almost burned down my parents house making the smoke bomb on a hollowed out gas grill, a sterno and a soup can. It ignited and blasted flaming napalm and a fountain of sparks. A true Beavis and Butthead moment.
NachoNachoDan@reddit
I cooked my smoke bombs on the gas grill too lol! I was up front with my mom about what I was doing.
I remember being REALLY apprehensive about buying potassium nitrate (saltpeter) at the drug store. I was afraid that the person working there was gonna ask me what I was gonna do with it and I didn’t have a good answer and figured “making smoke bombs” wasn’t gonna be a good one.
Betelgeuse3fold@reddit
You sound like the kid my mom told me to stay away from
NachoNachoDan@reddit
Your mom loved me.
Slim_Margins1999@reddit
There’s a few fun ways to make napalm. Lol
PassiveMenis88M@reddit
Because you were reading the version edited by the fbi. It's the only version most people have seen. The recipes in the original book were real, many taken straight from military field manuals.
OviliskTwo@reddit
Just give me a paring knife and a bic pen to punch the hole and carb. I see you out there sunshine.
foozebox@reddit
Hollowed out Hershey Kiss filled candy cane w trumpet mouthpiece checking in.
BobbyGuano@reddit
I preferred potatoes
MortgageRegular2509@reddit
“Trust me, I’ve made bongs with less”
msheehan418@reddit
Avocado, and ice pick and my snorkel
wigwam098@reddit
Was more of an apple smoke myself.
amjiujitsu87@reddit
We made a lot of bongs from a lot of things. There was a gravity bong in the walk-in at Togo's sandwiches. It was a 5 gallon bucket, a 2 liter of orange soda, and a deep socket for a bowl.
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
My cousins still make fun of me to this day, almost 30 years later, because of my first gravity bong in a bucket hit. I was wearing brand new jeans and the bong was in the woods and it had just rained. The ground was kinda muddy so I dropped my pants (had boxers on) so I could kneel down to take the hit and not get the knees of my jeans dirty. Even at my 99 year old grandma's funeral two months ago were they giving me shit.
amjiujitsu87@reddit
Why not just squat? I'd give you shit too
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
I was already high at the time. Seemed like the right thing to do.
NO_TOUCHING__lol@reddit
We had a 2 liter gravity bong with a well fitting juice pitcher outer shell.
The five gallon bucket was reserved for the 3 liter that we called Ultra Mega
go_kart_mozart@reddit
Dorm recycling bin, Twister juice bottle, poked tin foil. Bam.
-Bk7@reddit
sounds like you also had a friend with the nickname macgyver?
lluciferusllamas@reddit
Aluminum foil with holes poked in it, bro. Sink screens were for the rich
XROOR@reddit
Heavy beach towel under door gap enters the chat
EtherealMind2@reddit
I get my Medical Cannabis delivered next day by Royal Mail from a pharmacy. I am not the same in 2025.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukmedicalcannabis/s/aEOjTHsogc
GroundedOnTheMoon@reddit
Not true. Gen x most likely useless generation
thefuckfacewhisperer@reddit
And we are in the middle. I definitely took a screen out of the bathroom faucet and used it in my pipe and I have definitely taken hits from Pen Griffey Jr while out in public
Dez28911@reddit
Spot on! Been there done that!
Brandoe@reddit
Ya fukin right we did.
GutsAndBlackStufff@reddit
We just rolled blunts growing up.
LordEschatus@reddit
Before we had the tech, you had to architect.
Krondon57@reddit
Yall have legal weed?
lukasbradley@reddit
I didn't do this.
SeanOTG@reddit
I'm doing my part !
naamingebruik@reddit
We had to do what now?
I have no idea what you are describing....
When smoking in house after the parents went to bed we just opened a window and put a blanket against the door so the smoke and smell wouldn't travel to the hallway from underneath the dor. And we'd lit 2 or 3 cigarettes and let them burn in the ashtray just to be sure....
Outside you just you just smoked, not too many people cared.
As for devices? We just rolled a joint or made a makeshift waterpipe with a pen and a small soda bottle it wasn't hard...
I have no idea what you are describing... Maybe it's my English but I have no idea what dryer sheets are or a sink faucet isn't a sink like a lavabo? Those things are huge no? How can they be related to smoking a joint?
DETRITUS_TROLL@reddit
First time I saw a dab kit at Walmart i was shocked.
Citrus_little@reddit
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they will never sit." 🫡
MissMeInHeels@reddit
You had filters? We just had to be very good at making little holes
Southside_john@reddit
A lot of the time we also had to remove seeds and stems before smoking too. Nobody has to do that anymore
UrsaMajor7th@reddit
Miss a seed, and POP!
TheShaydow@reddit
My wife and I still have those seeds! We have sandwich baggies ( more than 1! ) full of seeds we have saved over 30+ years.
The stems? I made Tea out of them when I had enough. It wouldn't get you high ( of course ) but I liked the taste, and it was something I did no one else did.
Now let's talk about scraping that bowl for the resign to smoke, haven't seen mention of that yet. LOL.
Working-Glass6136@reddit
...What if you didn't?
Additional-Cookie182@reddit
In addition to the other reply it tastes like shit and the stems can tear through a joint if you aren’t careful. And both interfere with the slow burning of a joint or blunt. And you have less volume for the flower.
captainoftrips@reddit
Seeds pop, stems will give you a fucking headache.
S_A_R_K@reddit
Mexican brick weed was a fucking CHORE to prepare. Never forget buying a QP and 3 of us putting in some serious work on my buddy's coffee table
seamonkey420@reddit
but doing it all at once was well worth it down the road!!! ahh. sharing QPs of dirt weed!! key memory unlocked!
BreakfastJunkie@reddit
I still have the old cigar box I used to break it up in. Still has the first weed leaf I grew taped to the top of the box.
OkSmoke9195@reddit
Lol this thread really unlocking some good times
LACna@reddit
Man back in middle school I use to blaze the fuck out of the bathrooms. Pretty much between every class period, all of gym & homeroom.
It's actually how me, as a serious 90s goth/punk girl, made so many "non-convential, cafeteria-stereotype" friends.
I smoked with anyone who approached me & wanted a hit then @ lunch I would just float to each cafeteria friend group whenever I wanted to hang out.
Jocks, nerds, skaters, cheerleaders, computer kids, punks, ESL, etc etc. I made friends with them all thanks to my various drugs I shared.
darxide23@reddit
Had one made out of a chapstick tube.
Black_Ty86@reddit
Lol soda bottles & beer can bongs for the win 😮💨
Diligent-Animal-3491@reddit
👋
SnakePlissken1980@reddit
Well you generally wouldn't use a screen with a soda can pipe. It wouldn't work too well with a pipe that already doesn't work too well. I always had a pipe back in the day though, and I still smoke from a pipe. Those weed pens don't do anything for me.
wanna_be_green8@reddit
If we were using a can we didn't have a screen, just poked tiny holes with a safety pin or similar.
Taranchulla@reddit
I sent this to my Gen Z daughter and she said when she’s home for Christmas she’ll show me how to make a grav bong with an apple.
MadameLeota604@reddit
I don’t understand a word you just said
Fallenangel152@reddit
Sometimes I feel like the only person who grew up in the 90s who didn't smoke weed.
MikeyFromWork@reddit
Cmon Leota
noonesaidityet@reddit
Wasting faucet screens on the soda cans? We just put a dent in the can and poked holes the the dent.
_hi_plains_drifter_@reddit
With the back of an earring!!! True innovation 😂
Ok-Pollution8344@reddit
Pop the tab off and break it in half, use the pointy metal.
The can has everything you need beside flame and bud.
IVEMIND@reddit
That was my move. Although most of the time I used pop cans and cigarette ash to smoke crack. Don't do drugs kids.
captainoftrips@reddit
Straightened paper clip!
noonesaidityet@reddit
Ah, I see you are also are of impeccable taste and culture!
_hi_plains_drifter_@reddit
Kids these days will never know 😶🌫️
pheremonal@reddit
Hahaha holy shit you just reminded me that my childhood home probably still has no faucet screens
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
https://imgur.com/a/InPTImD
Yup. Even put a carb hole on the side
noonesaidityet@reddit
My people.
ThatEvanFowler@reddit
Right? I guess people were seriously overthinking the structural permanence and necessity of their can bowls? We would just crush the fucker into shape, stab it with a pen 5-6 times, then use it for a single night. It wasn't supposed to be a long-term, filtered option. It was an I-forgot-my-bowl-do-you-have-one-oh-well-I'll-make-a-can-bowl-until-I-can-go-get-it option.
DunstonCzechsOut@reddit
Furthermore your life could get pretty dragged in a variety of ways. This is very lost.
AandWKyle@reddit
Millenials bridged the gap
Whenever the new fangled gizmo or gadget failed, I was there with the knowledge of the old ways
thanks for showing me all the tricks
notbleetz@reddit
fuck me... never thought to use the screen from the faucet
fubes2000@reddit
I remember when I was college my parents' friends were over and were talking about catching one of their kids smoking their stash. She said "the one thing I don't understand is that he had a toilet paper tube with a dryer sheet stuck over the end" and I piped up with "yeah dumb stoners think that blowing smoke through the dryer sheet makes it so that you can't smell the weed smoke".
Then all four of them looked at me like I had just sprouted a second head and I remembered that I urgently had to be anywhere else but there.
Bonfalk79@reddit
I believe at one point I tried to get high by smoking banana skins.
Capital_Push5557@reddit
I love this. The "had to walk 5 miles in the snow" of our generation
justaheatattack@reddit
yeah, dem pens is GONE.
TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit
We didn’t even have a Target when I was in HS
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
You don't need a screen for a soda can bowl.
potatopigflop@reddit
I was gonna say “look at mr. Rich MacGyver over here
BobDobbsSquad@reddit
This was too far down. Faucet screens are handy for metal pipes.
TheShaydow@reddit
I dunno how may faucet screens I stole as a teen for a screen. All I know is somewhere out there someone 30 years ago went to change their screen and went " WTF?! "
Ceilidh_@reddit
Right? Use the pop top to punch some holes in that thing and send it.
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
Made one real quick out of a beer can. Not gonna smoke out of it though haha
https://imgur.com/a/InPTImD
captainoftrips@reddit
I know it's a demo model, but you should try paper clips if you ever have to do one of these for real. Straighten a paper clip enough that you can use the end to poke a dozen or so holes in a circular pattern.
I used to keep one of these stashed in a floor vent in my room in high school before I was old enough to buy a real pipe from a head shop.
starmartyr11@reddit
I mean, a needle worked perfectly well and you could make lots of tiny holes that wsy
NO_TOUCHING__lol@reddit
Those holes are wayyyy too big brah, gotta methodically punch tiny holes with the sharpest corner in a perfectly circular pattern
DisasterBeautiful347@reddit
POP A TOP, AGAIN?
hey-girl-hey@reddit
I've been tempted by the nostalgia of these but I can't justify actually buying one
Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit
Yup. Just some tiny holes acted as enough of screen. Stealing screens out of grandma's faucets was for pipes you made out of plumbing parts you got from the hardware store.
ocram101@reddit
We just used a small rachet piece that would fit on the end of pe-tube, taped it up, stuck into a 600ml pop bottle to make a bong. No screen - you just pulled it through when the weed was burned.
OkSmoke9195@reddit
Lol I thought I was a genius when I raided the hardware store for my triple bowl special that I had envisioned in a cloudy haze
Accurate-Force3054@reddit
came here for this. what a fancy lad!
Mr_Perfect22@reddit
This is what brought me to the comments too.
bootyholeboogalu@reddit
But for real like we are totally ignoring straight up aluminum foil pipes which I smoked out of hundreds I'm going to have metal poisoning and Alzheimer's
bootyholeboogalu@reddit
Your motherfuckers owe us
Jabba_the_Putt@reddit
and the millenials thank you for having passed the torch along with the apple
nghreddit@reddit
Boomers did that shit too, younglings.
King_Saline_IV@reddit
The shows that GenX did infact improve the world for the later generations
neverbegameover1@reddit
Boring
BleedKonkrete@reddit
Strait up
sowokeIdontblink@reddit
A bygone era of hot knives, supers, hot boxing, and strategically licking the doob to prevent canoeing. The peak of peer collaboration and problem solving.
GuerillaRiot@reddit
I always hated hot boxing. Sitting there in a cloud of other dudes nasty breath. Not getting any higher than if we just smoked in the open. Especially if it was hot outside. Walking around smelling so much like weed, you could hear the odor.
Additional-Cookie182@reddit
Plus you never get enough of a cloud for it to actually feel that fun or interesting. I’ve smoked quarter oz blunts in closed vehicles and it’s not like a fog machine or something. There’s a slight haze maybe but you’re right there’s no real benefit, it’s kind of gross if you think about it, and it just soaks the odor in for no reason.
colostitute@reddit
Same. A couple of opportunities and I went nope. While friends hot boxed the car with a bong, I sat on the dropped tailgate enjoying thin blunt under the moon and stars.
IFartOnCats4Fun@reddit
Sounds lovely.
Checktheusernombre@reddit
Wow I entirely forgot about the concept of canoeing. If not done, entire chunks of valuable weed would tumble to the ground.
TheCornerator@reddit
Huh, we always called it a run, like in pantyhose.
UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR@reddit
Yup. She running. You gotta bap(tide) that thing before you light it.
NO_TOUCHING__lol@reddit
I believe our super scientific experiments concluded that knifers were demonstrably the most efficient method lol
dontautotuneme@reddit
i read that as licking the door knob
MisterHyman@reddit
And swallowing the screaming eagle
TonyzTone@reddit
Best tactic for fixing a canoe was just holding the joint out and making a circle with your elbow. Would be fixed in like 2 seconds.
catsoncrack420@reddit
Buying a dime bag was the equivalent of buying a brick of cocaine by today's standards. 😂
JacquesHome@reddit
Sooo many quests. Sometimes you would start to think is this all worth it just to get a dime bag of weed. Then you and your friends would be at the park, behind the tennis courts hitting the beer/soda can pipe and it would be all worth it.
catsoncrack420@reddit
Amen brother
r3dstar77@reddit (OP)
Waiting in a parking lot for some middleman you knew for 3 hours hoping they would show up hahah
NO_TOUCHING__lol@reddit
Or worse, going into some rando's house
tmhowzit@reddit
A screen from a sink faucet would be a luxury, we just poked holes in the can
Gonna_do_this_again@reddit
My mom told me a story about catching me smoking pot when I was probably like 14 or 15. She was SO mad. I guess when she told her friends about it, they were just like "Jeez, it's just pot. Everybody does it"
She got comfortable with it as I got older and she started using it after she got breast cancer, and she still does now (beat the cancer).
starmartyr11@reddit
Oh man, none of our crew's parents were ok with smoking weed at all, or so we thought - until caught one time by one buddy's parents who at first were a bit mad we were smoking already in high school, hoping we would have waited at least. It was also atill illegal in Canada at that time (late 90's). But at the time we were obviously a bunch of metalhead burnouts already so what could be expected... anyway they did end up laughing about it and admitted they came up in the 70's and used to/still would smoke if given the chance too. We were terrified up until that moment and then it was like the dam broke. We got high with them a couple times after but it was still a bit weird since we were like 16 and they were more than twice our age. I think their son became their weed dealer after that lol. They understood we just wanted to do our own thing and mostly left it at that.
BUT!! The absolute best thing was that buddy's dad was a trucker and had a habit of snagging the occasional frozen fast food items that would "fall off the truck" and get damaged from time to time. Nothing major, but their freezer was well-stocked with breaded chicken and such from our favorite restaraunts. They also happened to have a full-on deep frier. This was huge for a bunch of rural kids with no concept of food delivery. Prior to being "caught" we used to sometimes fire it up to make some snacks, but once they knew we were smoking, they would fry up stuff for us to munch out on when we were over & obviously high since it was safer for them to do so. Didn't even have to do the work. Amazing.
Overall 10/10 parents & experience, super cool.
captainoftrips@reddit
My mom never caught me in the act, but she did confiscate my stash a few times when she found it. When I was in my late 20s she dropped a bombshell on me - my parents smoked all the weed they every took from me.
Then I got her back by telling her the reason she eventually stopped finding my weed was because I started storing it in the floor vent in my room.
colostitute@reddit
A friend’s mom came home early and we were in the backyard smoking a blunt. We were just out of high school and smoking a blunt. She just complained about how stinky our cigars were and went back inside.
We thought we were so lucky. Found out years later that she knew what it was but wasn’t in the mood to deal with it since we were all adults at that point.
Silver-Instruction73@reddit
I used to smoke out of a Gatorade bottle bong myself
Howboutit85@reddit
Hey I’m a millennial and we used cand and toilet bowl busters too; only we had to poke holes in the can we don’t even have a sink screen. I’ve never even heard of that, was that a risk of thing, you go to Home Depot to buy that? Poke some holes, fuck.
wecametofight@reddit
and now you can hit the weed pen too, boomer.
Slightly_ToastedBoy@reddit
Slice off a length of someone’s garden hose, raid someone’s fridge for a plastic juice or soft drink bottle, aluminium foil pinched into a cone shape and Blu Tack as an adhesive and away you go.
UsayNOPE_IsayMOAR@reddit
I was a kid, and sneaky enough that I felt bad for those kids who HAD to use sploofs. I was annoyed…bounce sheets? Just covers up the smell. So I bought a kitchen fume hood filter, cut out the activated charcoal screen, and gave some away to my friends.
They did not appreciate the science..
Quixotegut@reddit
Sprite bottle, BIC pen, and foil crew logging in.
Phyzzx@reddit
Same but with an M&M minis tube way back when first started. When I stole my bike back I also took fucker's devil bong but because I was 15 i couldn't bring that shit home... and that's how a devil bong joined the weird rained on porn stashed in the woods.
starmartyr11@reddit
Oh man, weed paraphernalia and (found) porn stashes, name a more iconic duo
cuntolas@reddit
you guys are amateur Gatorade hose from garden and can cut into a circle folded and shaped into a cone piece.
this is the Australian way i could make one that would last for months and was air tight.
NO_TOUCHING__lol@reddit
And chewing gum
Gravy_Sommelier@reddit
icenine09@reddit
ki11a11hippies@reddit
Best way to stretch the ditch weed.
S_A_R_K@reddit
The Pringles can, copper tubing and foil bong I constructed at 16yo is the smoothest hitting bong I've ever used. Spent a lot of time trying to replicate it but never could
Pocusmaskrotus@reddit
Homemade bong. Oh the memories.
Irr3l3ph4nt@reddit
Yall were fancy with your screens. We just pierced holes in the side to create a makeshift one and pierced a hole on the other side for the choke. Bonus, we just broke the can's tab in half to get a pointy object to fabricate it.
Lotus-child89@reddit
Hey, us millennials had to get creative too. But we did get the pens while we still young enough to enjoy it and appreciate the stark contrast that happened in just a few short years for us.
missprincesscarolyn@reddit
Hey now, Millenials were in on this too.
hellure@reddit
DARE officer taught us how to make a pipe with an apple.
That and cold shoulder, just say no, was all I learned from DARE.
Drilling4Oil@reddit
2 liter soda pop bottle, cut the bottom off, fill a small plastic trash can with water, cut hole in the bottle cap, heat up bottle cap to melting point w/ lighter, drop screen into melting bottle cap hole, let cool down- ready to party.
that gravity bong hit you in the solar plexus like Ivan Drago in Rocky 4
Content_Geologist420@reddit
Its like hitting iron
Drilling4Oil@reddit
lol
To which I would say, "Iron gets you higher," wrongly.
NO_TOUCHING__lol@reddit
We made a fancy one with a downspout and everything
Drilling4Oil@reddit
We never even thought about a downspout. We just unscrewed the cap & sucked.
Damn, you went to a better school than me, I bet.
NO_TOUCHING__lol@reddit
Lmao nah we were just hardcore rednecks.
My high school had less than 100 people in 9-12, I grew up in a very small farming town.
And I say this with full sincerity - I have never met a person (not from my area) who could beat me in a game of "who grew up in a smaller town"
Darkhoof@reddit
Then you'll be glad to know that THC was just illegalized.
b1lissendra@reddit
You nailed it Gen Z gets it easy with those vape pens we were basically engineers
Sal_Paradise81@reddit
Yeah…they also inherited a literal dumpster fire of a world. They were literally born into existential crisis and haven’t had a break from perpetual existential crisis yet. So maybe we can stop talking about them like they owe us something. They genuinely don’t, and it’s a very boomer move to act like they do.
shayed154@reddit
Most of us gen z also had sploofs, can pipes etc too. I've seen guys use nothing but a fist, lighter and some weed to smoke
Dumpster fire aside weed vapes aren't that old but it's been interesting seeing it go from caveman style where you put weed on a heating coil to oil cartridges
captainoftrips@reddit
The Magic Flight Launch Box. So revolutionary at the time, so primitive now.
Ntr0gen@reddit
My friends and I called the paper roll with dryer sheets, a Zamboni. It was a brilliant tool. Milk Jug Gravity bongs were a popular favorite. Yes, the soda can with faucet screens were a thing. Though we could polk holes into the can with a fork and pray we don't inhale hot embers.
Graphix Bong's and Honey Bear bong's were a solid choice too. When I was a kid glass pipes were for crack heads. Wood pipes ruled the pot head world. My favorite was the ProtoPipe. I still have mine in my secret box. Shhhh!
I remember my first toke, with a purple "kind" bud called Krypto, in Boca Raton Fla. I miss my friends.
henningknows@reddit
You guys didn’t have glassware growing up?
captainoftrips@reddit
Too young. You had to be 18 to enter the head shop, but you better believe the week of my 18th birthday I got a sweet glass bong with inlaid color-changing copper. My friends and I called it the Technicolor Dream Bong.
frontfrontdowndown@reddit
Or one hitters?
Gonna_do_this_again@reddit
Not until I was a little older. It was aluminum pipes and Grafix bongs smoking the dirtiest shwag you've ever seen for a second there.
Useless_Knowledge420@reddit
Haha if you had an older brother, yes, otherwise we were 13, so we improvised.
Own_Picture_6442@reddit
I did but it was always really expensive
r3dstar77@reddit (OP)
Not unless you knew a glass blower in college
LengthinessAlone4743@reddit
Millennials…
egoreaperdubz@reddit
I'm late Gen Z technically (26) but this is how I grew up as well haha
bawlsofglory@reddit
I’m a Millennial and I’ve done both of those things!
sdia1965@reddit
We innovated, we sacrified.
moejike@reddit
We had an incredibly high CFM exhaust fan in our basement bathroom. Best part is that it vented straight outside. More than once my mom would catch whiffs when she was outside. I just told her that our neighbors smoked on their deck. That small bathroom got me through 4 years of smokin in high school without getting caught.
P.S. - Mom, if you're reading this, I made it all up for fake internet points from strangers. It was always the neighbors.
P.S.S. - That last bit there was a joke. My mom actually smokes more than me now for her MS. When I was young, it was the 'Devils Grass', but when it helps with tremors it's all of a sudden the best medicinal plant that is just misunderstood.
P.S.S.S. - That last bit is true. I happen to get most of my supply from her these day. Grade A.
P.S.S.S.S. - I was under the influence of the Devils Grass as I wrote this. I hope you've enjoyed the journey.
UpDawg831@reddit
Ah the nostalgia of Mexican brick weed... Enough seeds and stems to start a compost pile.
Krumm34@reddit
Poke holes in the can. Why waste a s screen
aeratedbraincells@reddit
Yall stay pretending like you are the only ones who had to do shit like this. I guarantee you Gen Z was/is doing this shit where its not legal. I only had a water bottle bong and apple pipes until I hit 23.
dick_treacherous@reddit
Cooked
PrestigiousResort711@reddit
Who the hell used a screen? Just poke tiny holes
drawredraw@reddit
lol the screens were for those cheap metal pipes. How would you even put a screen in a soda can?
Ippus_21@reddit
Some of y'all were wild, lol. I didn't have a clue about any of this shit growing up. First time (and last, so far) I encountered weed was 100% by accident. Somebody made 2 batches of chocolate cupcakes and didn't tell me one of them was "special."
msheehan418@reddit
This happened to me with Brownies and I thought I needed to go to the hospital bc I didn’t know what was happening.
The mental hospital. I thought I had gone crazy. And this was what it was like to go crazy and this was how all those people in the mental institution had gotten there.
Ippus_21@reddit
Right? I thought I had a concussion or something... I'd just gotten back from a school field trip where we went skiing, and I took a couple big falls, so...
Certain family members who may or may not have been responsible, said I was sick enough not to go to school the next day, but that's a giant hole in my memory. I didn't even find out what went down until like 2 years later.
pheremonal@reddit
Millennials were making GBs out of milk cartons. We are not the same.
ZeusBruce@reddit
Who remembers the great Beaster invasion of 2004?
CheeseGraterFace@reddit
🤮
Assortedpez@reddit
This resonates with me
CheeseGraterFace@reddit
It resinates, too.
That_Guy3141@reddit
I'm like 40 and hit my weed pen outside of target too. Love that shit.
CheeseGraterFace@reddit
Yeah, I don’t need no kids gatekeeping my dab stick. I did my time with the soda can and the aluminum foil pipe. Glass cartridges for me from now on.
Major_Basis569@reddit
"Back in my day we beat babies with stones and ate cigarettes for fun!"
feynox@reddit
During the 2000 election my college roommate made a water bong out of a 2 liter. He named it George W. Bong and used it exclusively while watching the debates
Fantastic-Sign-574@reddit
Truth
No-Wonder1139@reddit
Were you too good for apples or something?
aretooamnot@reddit
And we are still the better generation. We had the “last” good time.
JYoForReal@reddit
Damn I feel seen.
liv96atx@reddit
Bro hot knifes, using fruit as pipes, green dragon alcohol. Just the appliances
Techniques: blowing into a flushing toilet, satya sticks, bong snaps out the window. Bathrooms are ur friends
Strange-Principle-57@reddit
Felt that
FairNeedleworker9722@reddit
Yes yes. And you walked uphill both ways through the snow to get it.
TheJokersWild53@reddit
Still waiting for that gold Yoda can to smoke out of.
mrtwidlywinks@reddit
FUCK how did I never think of a sink screen? Those can hits would have been a lot better. Most desperate moment was smoking resin out of an apple
Historical-Web-3390@reddit
Gen z did that too, we ain't that young.
badgko@reddit
You had screens?!? I just had to poke a bunch of tiny holes in the can.
musa_velutina@reddit
In all fairness... you didn't need a faucet screen if you poked a good patch of holes with your safety pin.
w8n_@reddit
People are saying you dont need a screen but what do you mean a screen from a sink faucet??
Jefflehem@reddit
You didn't need a screen to smoke out of a pop can.
Ok_Ice_6254@reddit
screen? who had a screen. I just used a thumbtack to poke little holes in the can
Greenpoint1975@reddit
Too funny.
GoatCovfefe@reddit
I've never heard of anyone using any sort of screen when smoking out of a can. You just poke multiple holes in a rough circle shape, ends up looking like holes from a shower drain.
oJKevorkian@reddit
To be fair we were still doing this in the 2010s
theinvisibleworm@reddit
Y’all had screens??? we just poked holes in the can
Kube__420@reddit
Pfff shows this was made by amateurs. You don't need a screen for a pop can pipe. You poke holes in it with a pin or thumb tack.
MisterHyman@reddit
The get me an avocado, my icepick and a snorkel
kingrizzo@reddit
Proto pipe ftw!
Beneficial-Worth803@reddit
Gen Z did this too lmao
PabloJunie@reddit
Not to mention spend a hour at some creepy dude’s shitty apartment while his pet massive boa slithers around freely just to score a pinched quarter of shake and seeds so that you can now order perfectly pre-rolled joints and assorted edibles online and pick them up via drive thru.
Moon_Noodle@reddit
Hey, most of us older millennials had to do this shit, too. Some of my best nights were ripping a homemade water bong at a bonfire in my buddy's back yard.
dishwasher_mayhem@reddit
My Uncle showed me how to make a water bong out of a 2 liter soda bottle, a plastic pen body, and some tin foil.
This was in 1986
I don't know the wizard he apprenticed under but I'm thankful for his tutelage.
Dewlig@reddit
Truly the greatest generation. /s
InsertNovelAnswer@reddit
Hollowed out McDonalds toy.
urbanlife78@reddit
My buddies and I had the Muffler, a piece of metal pipe a buddy used in shop class to build a bowl to smoke weed
RoxyLA95@reddit
They don’t even know
2PM2@reddit
We died for their sins. Lol
civilSurvivorMum@reddit
the faucet screens were for things like those cheap fimo-clay-and-metal bowls or really any cheap pipe/bowl and such. I used to use one of my french horn mouth pieces as the bowl for this one foot purple plastic bong I had (could not be trusted with anything glass). Def needed a screen cos I was always too lazy to get out all the seeds. The best was when we’d fill my little purple pal with SoCo and ice. good times…
Sad_Apple_3387@reddit
lol
cheekynihlist@reddit
This resonates in every bone of my sad old body. 😂
stormcharger@reddit
Hey us millennials smoked like that too!
felis_scipio@reddit
I remember when a friend learned about using dryer sheets inside of a toilet paper roll from watching some moral panic episode of Oprah. Life changing, we could smoke a bowl practically anywhere.
vermithius@reddit
I just used a can lol
Stujitsu2@reddit
Shoulda used an apple
MsCricket67@reddit
Truth! LOL
AccidentalGK@reddit
You used screens?
The_Laughing_Man_82@reddit
Oof. This hits. Better than that damn can did I might add.
guntheroac@reddit
I could make a bong, or a pipe out of basically anything by the time I was 17.
A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit
This is true for most millennials lol. Too bad they just passed a national law banning weed again.
We’ll be all right though lol
Hambulance@reddit
I mean, that's not exactly what they did...
A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit
https://thehill.com/newsletters/5601265-federal-thc-ban-send-hemp-companies-scrambling/
Hambulance@reddit
Yeah I read that whole thing earlier. Did you???
It's about unregulated hemp-derived THC products like delta 8, not all marijuana.
A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit
Yes, because the government will definitely stop at this.
Hambulance@reddit
Saying they did is wholly different from they might. Not that they won't, but they haven't.
A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit
Tell that to Texas
Hambulance@reddit
I don't think you know what Federal means.
Sal_Paradise81@reddit
Are you referring to the new farm bill. It’s not banning weed, you turnip. It’s fixing the loophole that let sketchy mfs sell weed right next to boner pills at any gas station.
A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit
A-Helpful-Flamingo@reddit
Full Article
WillEdit4Food@reddit
Tall used screens?? I just poked several small holes.
Chance_Independent47@reddit
You're welcome
BrilliantArtistic213@reddit
🎯
Benjamin_Titus@reddit
Tom Segura does an amazing job of pioneering these very moments in one of his stand ups.
jason_cat23@reddit
We walked so they could run.
Rude_Sheepherder_274@reddit
Wise millenials
peteywheatstraw420@reddit
I still blow into toilet rolls because my elderly parents live with me. Full circle baby.
maringue@reddit
Me, rolling up on the GenZ hitting his vape pen
https://i.redd.it/ma49abnzn41g1.gif
mtmtnmike@reddit
The amount of skunk weed I smoked.
Now I can drive less than five minutes and legally buy weed that to 16 year old me would have been gourmet.
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
I just used a small wooden tobacco pipe. But I wasn’t a big pot smoker.
Acceptable_Result488@reddit
H.S. shop and art classes were bong and pipe factories, some kids were way too obvious and were always getting pinched .
0peRightBehindYa@reddit
Y'all used screens?
MistressErinPaid@reddit
Millennials
NeverEndingCoralMaze@reddit
You guys had screens?
worksnake@reddit
Who's upvoting this low-effort nonsense? Is there a race for the sub to become a lookalike of every suburban parent's Facebook page from 2012?
Iamstu@reddit
We also had to source the stuff, many times it was a sketchy adventure in itself!
tr1mble@reddit
Local hardware store for 3 specific pipe pieces was always a fun trip
19Charger@reddit
Using the Ol’ metal sneak a toke cigarette
Cactilily@reddit
r3dstar77@reddit (OP)
Damn. Forgot about this
AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit
Some gen x shit here. We had it tougher than u. Meanwhile gen z are reeling in terrible times economically.
TwistingEcho@reddit
Wrong group my friend, this is the one with the light-hearted approach to life and nostalgia.
AbbreviationsBorn276@reddit
This post aint light at all. Just pushes that narrative further. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
lillychr14@reddit
Hey man, we’re out of papers
Alright, get me a toilet paper roll, a corkscrew and some tinfoil
We don’t have a corkscrew
Then get me an avocado, an ice pick and my snorkel. Trust me bro, I’ve made bongs with less. Hurry up!
S_A_R_K@reddit
Did anyone else search for "water pipe" plans online and find ascii diagrams they studied like they were blueprints for building a nuclear reactor?
rollingquestionmark@reddit
What was it back in '90', a party ball maybe, a small plastic keg of beer? Yeah, talk about bong on steroids. You cough, you get off!
joey_oaks@reddit
The other day I went on my phone, ordered from the dispensary and drove over to get it and was done the entire process in about 30 minutes. Kids will never understand the struggle of waiting around all day for a weird guy who keeps saying he’s “20 minutes away” but shows up 4 hours late and then makes you hang out with him for another couple of hours before being able to just chill and smoke.
Spicy_Tac0@reddit
Sink screen? I poked holes in the can like a savage!
Snakington_Steel77@reddit
Facts!!
Jdevers77@reddit
You guys used screens? We just poked a bunch of small holes in soda cans. Also who the fuck could afford dryer sheets, just smoke that shit outside. My friends and I conveniently walked to each other’s houses basically constantly.
Look back on that, knowing how much vaporized aluminum I inhaled isn’t a good memory at all.
New_Cryptographer248@reddit
Golf ball cut in half, drilled with a pen cap mouthpiece was my favorite build back in the day
bknhs@reddit
Bust a hole in an orangina bottle with a penny
loganrunjack@reddit
We just poked holes in the pop can and smoked directly through that.
Theredsoxman@reddit
Apples work too…um…so I’ve heard
LuckyCod2887@reddit
I forgot about the dryer sheet trick!!!! i’m a millennial tho
DiscoLibra@reddit
Then there was the Sploof, to hide the weed smell. Bounce freshness!
TonyzTone@reddit
I'm still amazed at the hoops I jumped through just to avoid being seen smoking. Wading through a filled in marsh to reach an area of my neighborhood "park" that abutted against a highway, but was surrounded by tall grass and fallen trees just so I can smoke in relative peace and avoid getting arrested.
Now, dude just smoke inside the train station.
Optimal_Solution663@reddit
You had screens? I had foil and a sewing needle.
Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit
Thanks to the grand old party we are goimg to probably go back to tgis. 2026 all hemp will be illegal once again.
Yuck-Fou94@reddit
Yeah? Now respect your fucking elders bitch.
pleasetrimyourpubes@reddit
Pretty sure statistically millennials legalized but I am not trying to get in trouble here. Ban me I am from 1982, voted to legalize twice (Colorado and Nevada) and won both times. Love ya boomers.
(Sorry this post hit my popular page and I distinctly remember the younger ones of us legalizing.)
spicysatisfaction@reddit
Ahhh the memories! Soo accurate wow!
NurkleTurkey@reddit
I mean there used to be medicinal liquor licenses. People would get arrested for doing beer runs. Times change.
Shangri-lulu@reddit
My bedroom window screen went missing when I was in 8th grade. I lived in town and sometimes my friends would visit via that window at night or I’d sneak out briefly. Come to find out it was stolen by one to make weed paraphernalia.
der_innkeeper@reddit
I would almost take the 80s and 90s again, just so the new folks didn't toke up fucking everywhere and then act surprised that people are pissed that pot smoke makes the entire building/house/neighborhood reek.
Competitive-Glove-55@reddit
I think the parachute was the craftiest invention
Jovial_Candidate_508@reddit
So glad we didn’t have those pens in highschool. We were already baked enough .
echochilde@reddit
My older GenX cousins taught me how to carve an apple into a pipe when I was like 12. Good dudes.
Top_Chard5757@reddit
I started with a pop bottle and aluminum foil. I still use a toilet paper roll in the exhaust fan when the kids are around.
TermusMcFlermus@reddit
You're welcome.
sweetspetites@reddit
Word up. Coming from a girl who ripped a teeny hole in her window screen so I could ash while exhaling from a toilet paper roll. Also - shout out to makeshift BT bottles. A beer bottle and stone. IYKYK.
megabestfriend@reddit
I’ve done my fair share of both