User:MagGray/Poppers

Summary
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/GGdT9qWX1-Q" There's a visual and explanation for all you lovely stoners! Poppers are a method of smoking Marijuana with Tobacco, usually a piece of a Cigarette. Also known as yachts, shotties and pops, this form of smoking is very conservative, using only a fraction of the amount of marijuana necessary to pack a standard 'bowl' of marijuana at the cost of a shorter high.

Origin
Poppers were founded in Ontario, Canada, and spread into all of Canada and into the northern United States, though it is becoming more used throughout the United States as well as Canada, where poppers are becoming increasingly common especially among youth.

Use
To smoke a shotty, you pack some "tobe" into your bowl and then you throw some weed on top and "smoke that bitch." Don't hold it in. You will be shotty fazed which is when you get a fat headrush from the tobacco but with weed and/or crystal meth. They are good for conserving weed and getting the most out of your tobacco. AKA tobes, chops, tb tokes, whiss tokes, maul hoots or maulers.

To smoke a popper, one must use a small hollow cylinder (preferably the same size as the stem of the bowl). The most common hollow cylinder like this is a metal "bowl" or "piece" with the bowl attachment removed, often called a popper piece by users. A rubber O-ring is used to hold the piece in the down-stem. Cut by scissors or torn with the fingers, a 1/2 to 1cm piece of a cigarette is placed inside of the cylinder. The piece is either topped with or pressed onto a small amount of ground marijuana.

The cylinder is then smoked out of a bong, water bottle, or other device with or without water. The user lights the end the same way as a bowl, but when the bowl is fully ignited or 'torched', the use inhales heavily to cause the remaining smoke and ash to go into the piece. This process causes a narcotic-like 'rush', light-headed feeling, or 'fat melt'.

Poppers, unless used with a larger amount of marijuana to tobacco, usually have a 'peak' of only 2-5 minutes.

Health
Poppers possess many health risks, such as addiction and other respiratory diseases. Poppers pose more health risks than smoking a cigarette. No major health studies have been conducted on usage or health risks currently.