are aluminum grinders a health hazard?

[Mikell]

Ahhh, don't bring back memories of the Zippo-toke...

Don't forget the mustachio. I've a tiny pint sized hash pipe I call the Mustache Destroyer.

well, if you have a snout like mine, it is easy to burn yourself...

Or light the inside of your nose on fire

 

[stoned-trout]

at this point everything is a health hazard....fukk it...eating tuna more than like once a week is too lol..gimme some extra mercury on the side

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

Yeah, I remember when we all threw out our aluminum cookware and switched to stainless steel. Then researchers failed to determine a link between ingested aluminum and dementia. Just read that cornbread is a potent source of dietary aluminum. Myself, I try to avoid hamburgers. Mad cow you know. Better to eat steak since it's just the meat of one animal. Better odds that way.

Been wanting to make a post on how to roll a nice aluminum foil pipe. Don't clean them. Just toss when you cough and roll a new one. Totally classless but immensely practical.

 

[flylowgethigh]

Been wanting to make a post on how to roll a nice aluminum foil pipe. Don't clean them. Just toss when you cough and roll a new one. Totally classless but immensely practical.

Might as well just poke some hooles in a beer can and crush it when you are done. Bad for the lungs IMO.

My alum / anozided grinder is slap wore out.

How about one of these?

https://www.futo.ca/collections/gri...solid-exotic-wood-cnc-machined-made-in-canada

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

I haven't seen any studies on the effects of constantly inhaling aluminum fumes. I've seen plenty of papers on aluminum toxicity. Any device which grinds aluminum into your cannabis, is going to cause additional inhalation of aluminum atoms. Period, end of story. Whether a lifetime of aluminum grinder usage is enough to trigger issues, I have no idea.

I'd skip the foil pipe idea though. Having experience with this in the past, the throat issues I had were 'not' from the cannabis.

https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=164929

 

[bigtacofarmer]

Grinders remove all the trichromes. Carefully use scissors to have the best flavors.

 

[hush]

Meh. Just shove a whole nug into the bowl and vape it that way. Yeah, I said vape. I don't smoke anymore. But you definitely get the best flavors this way, for sure. I honestly don't use my grinder anymore. Last time I had to was when I bought some super, rock-hard nugs from a dispensary that were literally rock hard. For most of the density of cannabis buds that I would consider top-shelf (of which rock hard does NOT fall into the category), grinding is simply unnecessary.

 

[Drewsif]

Grinders remove all the trichromes. Carefully use scissors to have the best flavors.

Umm, carefully grind so the air flow fully extracts the flavor. I'm a quarter calyx man myself.

Do any of you who say these weird things actually smoke weed? None of if make sense in practice only in theory..you cant vape q bud work a shit without at least a half calyx bust.

Aluminum oxide is gross. Stainless works great.

 

[shithawk420]

Here we go again.i refuse to believe your gonna get any less higher from grinding cause of trichome loss.if you get a good quality grinder I doubt your gonna get any metal shavings.get a mendo mulcher if you want steel instead of aluminum.

 

[Guest]

link for the steel mendo mulcher?

 

[shithawk420]

link for the steel mendo mulcher?

I guess they don't make steel ones anymore or I thought they did.my mistake.last I looked them up was at least ten years ago

 

[CosmicCharlie]

I have never owned a grinder and never will.

Sure it sucks if you are smoking a lot of joints, but I prefer glass most of the time anyways.

Never even thought about particles of the grinder ending up in the Cannabis...

Glad I haven’t really used grinders much at all.

 

[MrGanjaMan]

The first grinder I ever bought was one made from wood with steel pins. I was to poor to buy those fancy aluminium ones.

They still make these kind of grinders. Just Google for wooden grinder.

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

Grinders remove all the trichromes. Carefully use scissors to have the best flavors.

This is cute.

No offense, but it's impossible to knock off "all the trichomes" with trichome dense cannabis. If you're ending up with no trichomes, you have very few to begin with. Grinders knock off less than using your fingers, and I still prefer my fingers.

 

[bigtacofarmer]

This is cute.

No offense, but it's impossible to knock off "all the trichomes" with trichome dense cannabis. If you're ending up with no trichomes, you have very few to begin with. Grinders knock off less than using your fingers, and I still prefer my fingers.

What is that sticky stuff resembling hash stuck to the inside off grinders?

And why would I not prefer that mystery stuff in my joint?

 

[shithawk420]

Lol I knew this was gonna happen.happens Everytime these threads come up.there is no way anyone is getting less high using a grinder.if someone makes that claim then it's all in there head.i prefer 4 piece grinders myself.had a sharpstone for ten years.broke one tooth but that thing went through literally 50 pounds.some prick stole it otherwise I'd still have it

 

[Bobby Boucher]

Grinder for joints, broken down by hand for blunts or bowls.

Don't grind up all your weed at once.

Collect the hash from your grinder with ethanol or isopropyl periodically to make edibles or topicals.

Glue the "lost" kief out of the grinder to your blunts or joints with extracts to make fancy tarantula joints.

Crisis averted.

 

[Gry]

About what year did grinders hit the market ?

 

[Bobby Boucher]

..Taking a look back into history, the herb grinder actually started as an industrial tool and was invented by Lewis Heim (early 1900s). Back then it was a center-less piece which is different from what we see these days. After a while the original two piece model came out, these grinders did not have the kief collection chambers like the ones we have now. It wasn't until the 1960's that the grinder was adopted for grinding cannabis.

..In online smoke shops and head shops you can find grinders that are made out of plastic, acrylics or even stainless steel which is super durable.

 

[CannaRed]

What is that sticky stuff resembling hash stuck to the inside off grinders?

That coating of hash on the teeth proves that the aluminum is chipping off.