But on the brightside we are connected globally. Humanity is making huge strides with science and medicine. Hope shines brightest in the dark guys!
(Plus we have LB, BTC and access to premium chronic)

Its only a matter of time before we are all bar-coded, neatly organised and uploaded to the cloud and sooner the better i say.

I know that when smoking tobacco, quicker puffs have a more stimulating effect and long deeply held puffs tend to be more sedating.

Perhaps the lung can only absorb so much in a cretin period, who knows but i also find that rushing a jay doesn't get me as high as taking my time with it.

As others have said, bong, bong, bong.

A rushed joint is just literally burning money.

Agreed.. no point in powering a plane down ya. Blitz a bong sit back and feel the rush!

I have no idea if it's true man but it certainly feels that way. I used to have to go for fly smokes out on the balcony and I could never get a real deep high going that way. However, a bong will always get me more stoned than a joint, even if the bong is 0.3g and the joint is 1g, that bong will always hit much harder.

I think if you put all the weed from your joint into a bong your question would be answered ;) That would certainly fuck me up more anyway!

I think with the example you've given, the reason why you've had to stealth smoke should be taken into account (ie you're in a rush or the feds are walking over). If you have to bun down a spliff quick, quite often it's in a more stressful situation, which could counteract the effect. When I was younger I remember once coming home from work angry and stressed. Drained a joint in 2-3 mins.... didn't feel anything!

I'd imagine it's because when you are smoking quickly you aren't inhaling the smoke as deeply or holding it in your lungs as long, consequently, your body absorbs less weed

Holding the smoke in your lungs longer is a misconception, as soon as THC enters your body, it's instantly "absorbed"

But your understanding is a misunderstanding

There is a cut off point that holding it any longer doesn’t make a difference but you still need to inhale it right deep and hold for some time to get the most out of if...I’ve proved this to myself over time

When I smash it down quick my tokes are still the same I think, just not much chill time between tokes.

Wish I could get on with bongs/pipes, they have their time and place, as does vaping...I just always end up wanting a j

Me too I’d smoke to many spliffs and the bong always hits better but I just love that chillin out taking puff after puff :)

Interested to know if someone has the science. For me it just depends on strains

A scientifically motivated educated guess would be a possible combination of a few things. I reckon the comment about stressing has some stead, cannabinoids are battling for superiority over stress hormones and create less of an effect.
I've learned recently that it seems like the lungs do 99% of their absorption DURING the inhale only, while the lungs are expanding. I found this very interesting but haven't delved too deep into it. But shallow, less relaxed and quicker breathing would nullify the lungs' full ability for absorption even if the breath was held (seemingly rather pointlessly). I'm feeling that this is likely the main answer to this. The lungs are actually fairly useless at even absorbing oxygen considering that's their job. A very small percentage is utilised with each breath so they don't have a flying start anyway. Less available lung space will very quickly hinder their ability. A longer and deeper draw also means a hotter ember and more smoke flooding into the lungs. I believe long, relaxed draws without any need for holding your breath for more than a second will hit you more than a larger joint would if chugged down quickly without full lung expansion on each breath. Try and let me know if it works! Focus on long full breaths after each breath without holding. Keep inhaling until you reach the end of each breath after toking and think about your breathing for just one joint. I really feel like you should feel more smashed and less dizzy.

I'll take the blue pill, plug me in already

Never

Because not everyone will have the money for it. The rich will use it and put a price on it to make it unavailable for us normal people. The rich will the feel superior after a drug like that and we all remember what happened in the world of star trek. The eugenics war is something that will unfortunately happen on this planet one day because of them sort of drugs. I must point out I'm not against this sort of thing as science is not good or evil it's how it's used but this sort of thing is are downfall.

Yeah it's an issue with most things but when it comes to life changing things like this it's a complete game changer.

It iits infinite it's not youth anymore.

This sort of thing is a rabbit hole just try an enjoy life

:)

what is the rabbit hole? anyone can test scalar waves and build a device at home. The united states navy tested this in the 60's. (the guy who invented the neurophone was a little part of this)

science proves gravity drives are possible.
heck even sound waves have been proven to travel faster than light. (google the MIT article)

its easy to brush off the edge of science, but its also easier to stay at home and not go out or do anything. just because you dont follow, be careful to dismiss what you dont know.
just for fun, go build a simple voice to skull transmitter (quite easy to do) and freak your friends out. (military owns most of the pattents for V2S)

while my friends would go out drinking after work, i was the guy who would stay for overtime, observing weird sciences at work, like copper becoming magnetic at 4.0 kelvin. not a relaxing type here. (paramagnetic)

heck even a parametric speaker is simple and easy to build, just dont cross the beams if you do build them, as it can create high powered infrasound, which can be painful.

Can you elaborate on that? Your comment is an interesting one!! I wonder what you mean.

Love this :)

Thanx!! I just think it would be really funny to see a poacher having to turn round and run or hide when he sees an animal armed with a gun. I have no time for poachers etc. I laugh about it even more when I'm stoned. You can just imagine the scene when animals fight back......

I agree so much my friend ,, most animals would love the opportunity I bet :):)

Look like mother bears know how to look after themselves too.

Just a thought but maybe corona could work wonders for bitcoin ie minimise cash transactions holding and touching card readers etc

The stock market is pretty knackered and propped up with all kinds of funny money... that certainly makes bitcoin more appealing as a risky investment! You can’t replace the card networks with bitcoin though due to the massive volumes involved, hence all this talk of ‘second layer’ solutions

nice idea you money launderer you

We got wrecked lol. Long term still very bullish and are hodling for dear life.

ugh bought btc on localcryptos yesterday via paypal. Paypal put a freeze on my funds for 24 hours after I sent it. In 24 hours the btc I bought basically plummeted in value and now I have to buy a quarter instead of a half :(

Done it twice in a two weeks man...feel your pain...coinbase froze me yesterday too...

ugh coinbase is the worst. even a bitcoin atm is better than coinbase.

Lost about £40 this morning, bummer!
I knew I should have made an order last night.

Just new funds in when you make a purchase, that what you have sitting there will go back up after the covid-19 pandemic

Me too man. Lost about £160 in 2 weeks where I have been trying to decide what to buy!! Been going to bed thinking ‘I’ll sleep on it and do a buy tomorrow’, wake up and boom, fucking buy money half gone... been a proper shit couple of weeks... fucking stock market has got near on a oz of my weed money... ha fuckers...

I decided to sell a 50g block of 24k gold, made an awesome profit from when I bought in 2012, (bought a few in mind of another global meltdown or apocalypse haha) then reinvested a little back in bitcoin about £800 worth and that’s died now. It will come back around though, if only I held off for a week.

Keep that bitcoin for the future when it rises and buy bitcoin now for purchase. That way what you pay now won’t be over the odds and when the market bounces back after coronavirus dies you should be sweet, maybe better off

Only buy coin when you purchase

buy £40 worth of bitcoin now and sometime soon it will double......mayybe

Well I have a theory like yours I’ll mention above

Shocking this bitcoin has dropped nearly 4K in value

Spare a thought for the people recieving payment from 2 weeks ago today lol joking aside it’s a bloodbath covering more than mark ups leaving no choice but to hodl and hope the halving happens in may I think so should see decent gains then

Spare a thought for those of us (me) who bought 50 bitcoins around 2014 for about £9 a piece then like a twat spent them all on drugs on the Silk Road and didn't even save one. Spent every last digit.

Fuckabix.

Mind you, my story isn't as bad as one guy's who bought 1200 when they first came out at something like $0.10 a piece then threw away the computer with all the information on as to where his wallet etc was. His story is somewhere on the internet. I'd be completely mortified! At least i got some drugs out of mine, he just threw his away!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. ;)

Hodl to fuck if you’re a vendor I reckon?! Must eat into working capital though, feel for you man, must be harsh watching your money disintegrate as it flies through space towards you!

Yea it’s a pain at the min mate I’ve been involved with crypto for years but never been paid for anything with crypto before lb and you have to wait 2 weeks for escrow so when it dives like this I feel it but just got to wait for the bounce back as selling at a loss isn’t something I’m willing to do would rather double down and try to move as much as possible while it’s down now so when/if it goes back up I’m in a position to profit back on the rise

Difficult situation for vendors at moment

me thinks its painful both ways.

Nah man cause anything they get now will double in value, they’ll make a killing lol

Yeah, I have been trading little crypto for about 3 years now just making little bits and bobs here and there (and losing some lol), done ok on a couple of the runs but caught out this time... have been ploughing bits of cash in for last few weeks banking on it following gold in times of crisis etc (coronovirus) but it's actually done the opposite and fucking tanked...

I was banking on the 'safe haven' theory etc, served me well a couple of times in the past but...ah fuck...this week my theory shit has cost me about an oz of weed... now I'm trying to hodl til I'm back in the black instead of spunking it on here ha ha...

That’s the plan mate to sell now would be financial suicide I’ve got a bit to plough into weed to keep going anyway let’s just hope for higher highs after the halving

Bloody hell yes my thoughts are with you, after the grilling you have had as well, It seems to have stabilised now let's hope it only goes up now

I’m telling you mate I’m bullish on bitcoin long term anyway lol

Just say your piece mate firmly and reasonably to the vendor and message via the order. Id give a final deadline, with reasonable notice, explain what you will do and cant say fairer than that. 48 hrs for a final response is reasonable, if your package is a week late for example. I would also allow an additional 3-4 days if they contact you with a promise of a replacement. Along that journey, ask when its been sent etc and ask for regular updates if they dont give you them. If that doesnt work, dispute. Keep it reasonable, but don't be afraid to play dispute. Its whats its for. With a 5.5 rating, id probably be inclined to dispute sooner rather than later.

Thank you my man that seems very reasonable & was kinda in line with what I was thinking, just nice to hear someone else's view so I know I'm not being outta order. Cheers bud

how long has it been since the order went in? If not marked as sent after 3 days you can contact Tranaxe Support and ask for the order to be cancelled and you will be refunded.

Rather than hanging in there and hoping for the best in spite of all the red flags, if it is more than 3 days, I suggest you write this one off, throw in the towel now, and invest your refund with reputable vendor who would not dream of doing you dirty like that.

To be in no man's land as you are now is not the place to be, and I personally have no interest in trades that go down like this.
Good luck with it, and let us know what happened

Thanks for reply man. It's been 8 days however since posting this I've just come across a thread where the vendor is apologising & stating that they've had issues due to a funeral. I still have bout 10 days before escrow releases so I'll try contact again & if no response in a few days, cancel. Many thanks to all you guys for responding, nice to know the community looks out for each other :) viva lb

That song is a sequel to this, "Can't be neutral on a moving train"

Henry David Thoreau was a tax dissenter and arrested for not paying? How the fuck did they not mention this when they made us read Walden Pond in school.

I love this opening:

You’re on an airplane when you hear a loud sound and things start violently shaking. A minute later, the captain comes on the speaker and says:

There’s been an explosion in the engine, and the plane is going to crash in 15 minutes. There’s no chance of survival. There is a potential way out—the plane happens to be transferring a shipment of parachutes, and anyone who would like to use one to escape the plane may do so. But I must warn you—the parachutes are experimental and completely untested, with no guarantee to work. We also have no idea what the terrain will be like down below. Please line up in the aisle if you’d like a parachute, and the flight attendants will give you one, show you how to use it and usher you to the emergency exit where you can jump. Those who choose not to take that option, please remain in your seat—this will be over soon, and you will feel no pain.

What would you do?

the problem i see is that it's a trust based system and you are trusting people selling an afterlife. that doesn't bring us much further than religious belief in life after death.

I'm going into space when I die :)

Seems you're off to a great start :)

50/50

Can't say I see a lot of downside with this one.

No way, decaying in the ground is what the elders tell us!

Howd that one work out for ya elders?

we dont really know :)

You still get the chance to be dead with cryonics, it's a win win wrt the elders.

3 different vendors. All arrived after 10-14days including weekend and Bank Holidays. 2 tracked 1 1st class- hash and brick weed. No flower

Ordered from TGT, posted on the 4th of June, but tracking shows leaving UK on Sunday... but has not been updated since Sunday 7th of June. TGT mentioned they will update me when tracker shows arrived in Ireland.

Fingers crossed I get it sometime next week.

How did you fare out with tgt order AFOS? Waiting little over 2 weeks on one myself

Hello sir!

So, it took 11 days (7 working days).

What type of post did you go for? Was it first class or did u go for tracked and signed? I've seen some of the other lads who didn't get it tracked and signed had to wait for about 2/3 weeks.

Roughly the same. They forgot to post it. Havent ordered much but from the small sample size it's took 8-12days Inc weekends. Some 1st class have been a day or two faster than tracked n signed.

Oh shit, I hope you get your package soon.

Really? 1st class faster? That is crazy?

I dont understand the post at all. It would be great if it was just more streamlined in general. What's the longest u have waited?

Only have had 4 orders arrive AFOS. 2 have been 1st class. 2 tracked n signed. All have took between 10to14days.not much differential between tracked n signed and 1st class. GC only do standard. Could have been lucky with 1st class post from them

We’re all to lazy :) :) someone else will do it hahaha

Had a package seized recently. No sign of any letter though. Possibly pilfered by the postman.

Had an order from the pope come in that had been opened by customs but still got to me. That was a really good day.

Fingers crossed for you....Sadly I had a customs letter delivered yesterday instead of my smoke, that order was delivered a day later than normal, pretty sad because I was on a roll with deliveries recently.

I wonder if my name and address will be stored and if more of my packages will be checked now because of this....ah well

any new pack?... got my first order only, second was seized, nothing came through after it (3rd, 4th, 5th)...living in Ireland fucking sucks! personal use only, only small quantity, still...

Got parcel yesterday but was slow and that was tracked I’d give it till Friday man ,

Mines stuck in transit since the 19th june and no updates on tracking other then it left UK then, usually its already been sorted in sorting office at this stage,my personal experience in the past, anyone had this before?

Very slow after it leaves Heathrow man anything upto a week now , and even when it gets here can be slow to only lately though

Currently one of the most annoyong messages ever. "Your item is now leaving the UK" that message usually stays the same for 4 to 5 days before it eventually touches down in Ireland -.- lol

I second that man so annoying lol

Yeah it is man lately really slow, even in the height of the pandemic it wasn't this slow lol but hopefully it lands soon enough, take it easy mate

Yea with lockdowns starting to ease a lot of mail that was held will be getting released , it’s just very slow should be al good in time

Yeah exactly man fingers crossed for those of us still waiting on orders

I’ll wait patiently til then. Slur buzz cuz it’s lovely weed I’m getting

Hope it lands for yea man fingers crossed

Thanks Sean

Any news man

Nah, never showed man. Must’ve been seized. Never buying flower again, probably stick to hash and carts. Flower is always the thing that goes missing

I’ve had a few go missing in last few weeks months no customs letter either , get onto your vendor man throw him a message and explain , could be able to sort something , sorry man

Ah it’ll be grand, it’s part and parcel with ordering such items. Just stuck for another weekend without smoke and it’s been a long fucking week haha

It’s the worst man waiting on something but yea get threw cause yea now some smoke is on the way then it don’t turn up , it’s gut wrenching to be honest ,we’re you based could try help yea if I can

Nah your good man honestly, I appreciate that though!. I’m in the Midwest , Clare :) where you residing ??

Waterford , bit of a trek :) :)
Hope something gets sorted for yea man

Arrived today lol

How long it total did that take?

Hahahaha happy days man , yea seems to be slower at the moment , delighted for yea man happy Monday now : )

Cheers pal, shur yee are all sound over that way :)

I’d call martial law...ya’ll getting outta hand lol

He will, a war on his own people. If he doesn't go full dictator, call marshal law and force himself into another term I'd be shocked.

Just keep the fingers crossed that the greater good will go full Libya on him.

50 usd sound good?

You, sir/madame are on.

War can be deemed as a military confrontation, but I don’t think a military confrontation is always deemed to be war.

By next are we saying this year? If he gets in again I wouldn’t rule it out!

Butt getting bigger ???

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