I have never seen someone smoke crack, but the first time I saw someone smoking a dab, I definitely thought that’s what they were doing. The process involved a blowtorch, a metal piece, and some kind of waxy substance. The smoker took a huge hit and was immediately knocked into the kind of stuttering high usually reserved for drugs more illicit than pot.
After being assured it was really just cannabis, I decided to try it. My friend put the bong in front of me, lit his blowtorch, and started heating up the metal piece that had replaced the bong’s normal glass bowl. Once it got red hot, he turned the torch off, let the metal cool for a bit, and then told me to inhale as he used a scalpel to put a small drop of honey-colored concentrate onto the metal piece.
The concentrate immediately turned to vapor and, as the bong bubbled away, I inhaled a surprisingly clean hit with an herbal and piney aroma. It tasted like that beautiful smell you inhale when you open a fresh package of weed, a smell that is often compromised during smoking because of the butane in your lighter or the ash from your joint’s rolling paper.
And it got me high as fuck.
