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Mindful Marijuana Smoking: Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers
Learn how to smoke cannabis in a way that reduces the health risks of smoking.
As an herbal remedy, cannabis can lift your mood and can treat a long list of ailments. But the way that most of us take a hit of pot needlessly takes a hit on our health. It is high time for health-conscious cannabis consumers to learn a new way of smoking that reduces its risks. In Mindful Marijuana Smoking, Mark Mathew Braunstein offers sound advice on every phase of the cannabis smoking experience, presenting health tips based on solid science. Whether with rolling papers, hand pipes, waterpipes, or herbal vaporizers, each method of cannabinoid delivery has both risks and rewards. Chapters are devoted to each method so that you can learn how to maximize their benefits and reduce their hazards, as well as how to protect your health even before you take a puff. And once you've inhaled the smoke, this book assures you that you don't need to hold your breath to reap all the benefits of cannabis.
Additionally, this book teaches readers how to assure an herb's purity, as both black market and corporate cannabis keep dirty secrets about how they were grown, and readers will learn about the potential impurities in rolling papers and vaping oils. The stronger the dose, the less you need to toke, so you'll find instructions on how to properly store cannabis to retain its potency. Finally, after you've smoked, you'll find guidance on why and how to relieve your parched mouth and to replenish nutrients that are depleted by smoking. Potheads and patients, tenderfoot tokers and seasoned stoners, dabbling dilettantes and cannabis connoisseurs, all need to read this book. By following its many health tips, when you light up, you can lighten up.
As an herbal remedy, cannabis can lift your mood and can treat a long list of ailments. But the way that most of us take a hit of pot needlessly takes a hit on our health. It is high time for health-conscious cannabis consumers to learn a new way of smoking that reduces its risks. In Mindful Marijuana Smoking, Mark Mathew Braunstein offers sound advice on every phase of the cannabis smoking experience, presenting health tips based on solid science. Whether with rolling papers, hand pipes, waterpipes, or herbal vaporizers, each method of cannabinoid delivery has both risks and rewards. Chapters are devoted to each method so that you can learn how to maximize their benefits and reduce their hazards, as well as how to protect your health even before you take a puff. And once you've inhaled the smoke, this book assures you that you don't need to hold your breath to reap all the benefits of cannabis.
Additionally, this book teaches readers how to assure an herb's purity, as both black market and corporate cannabis keep dirty secrets about how they were grown, and readers will learn about the potential impurities in rolling papers and vaping oils. The stronger the dose, the less you need to toke, so you'll find instructions on how to properly store cannabis to retain its potency. Finally, after you've smoked, you'll find guidance on why and how to relieve your parched mouth and to replenish nutrients that are depleted by smoking. Potheads and patients, tenderfoot tokers and seasoned stoners, dabbling dilettantes and cannabis connoisseurs, all need to read this book. By following its many health tips, when you light up, you can lighten up.
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213 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 17, 2022
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About the author
Mark Mathew Braunstein
9 books12 followersMark Mathew Braunstein's writer rap sheet includes six books, one praised by the Washington Post as “remarkably intelligent.” The diverse topics of his books and more than ninety ephemeral articles in glossy magazines include art, literature, holistic health, vegan vegetarianism, wildlife conservation, mobility disability, indoor gardening, cannabis culture, and drug law reform. His reader rap sheet includes the nearly entire oeuvres of way too many dead white males such as Melville and Thoreau, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Rilke and Kafka, Blake and Beckett, Plato and Epictetus, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and his guru and mentor and doctor Seuss, to name some whose rhymes and rants he somehow survived while neither going crazy nor growing wise.
Painting himself into a corner as an abstract artist, he did time as an inmate of Manhattan until he made his prison break and bartered his brush for a pen. For the next quarter of a century, he was on the lam at a hideout in a wildlife refuge in Connecticut where deer did not flee him, where chickadees perched upon him, and where nocturnal wildlife parked themselves on his driveway. That nocturnal species of youthful female hominids engaged in mating rituals with random older males. The females inspired Braunstein to write a field guide about them, titled Good Girls on Bad Drugs.
As a paraplegic since 1990 and a Bad Boy on Good Drugs, his use of cannabis is medicinal for below the waist and recreational above. His 55 years as a pothead culminated in 2022 with the publication of his book, Mindful Marijuana Smoking: Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers.
While he has neither attained enlightenment nor seen god, he someday may look into the future and see you reading this GoodReads webpage, or reading his own at www.MarkBraunstein.ORG ("org" for organic, or whatever else may come to your mind)
Painting himself into a corner as an abstract artist, he did time as an inmate of Manhattan until he made his prison break and bartered his brush for a pen. For the next quarter of a century, he was on the lam at a hideout in a wildlife refuge in Connecticut where deer did not flee him, where chickadees perched upon him, and where nocturnal wildlife parked themselves on his driveway. That nocturnal species of youthful female hominids engaged in mating rituals with random older males. The females inspired Braunstein to write a field guide about them, titled Good Girls on Bad Drugs.
As a paraplegic since 1990 and a Bad Boy on Good Drugs, his use of cannabis is medicinal for below the waist and recreational above. His 55 years as a pothead culminated in 2022 with the publication of his book, Mindful Marijuana Smoking: Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers.
While he has neither attained enlightenment nor seen god, he someday may look into the future and see you reading this GoodReads webpage, or reading his own at www.MarkBraunstein.ORG ("org" for organic, or whatever else may come to your mind)
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April 1, 2023
I'm not much of a nonfiction reader these days, but as an avid medical marijuana user who is always looking for safer and smarter methods, I picked up this book as soon as I saw it. Right away I was grabbed by the humorous chapter names and the light tone that Braunstein uses. It kicked off by shattering all I've ever know by telling me I DONT NEED TO HOLD MY HITS. WHAT.
There was a ton of interesting information in this book that I had not heard before. It has lots of suggestions and recommendations for users of all kinds - and is presented in a easy to digest and engaging way!
I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about their THC consumption methods.
There was a ton of interesting information in this book that I had not heard before. It has lots of suggestions and recommendations for users of all kinds - and is presented in a easy to digest and engaging way!
I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about their THC consumption methods.
January 24, 2023
This would be a pretty good general overview for a new smoker. As an experienced smoker who is also a reader, there wasn’t a whole lot new for me (except electric pipe lighters - thanks for the hint!), but it was handy to have lots of information compiled into one volume. Now that cannabis is being legalized in more and more states, I’m looking forward to more rational discussions of the plant and it’s many uses.
While Braunstein was correct about the toxins in burning plant matter, papers, matches, and lighters, all of the facts he presents seemed to lack a context for the level of dangers in these poisons. It’s briefly touched on later in the book, but I’d hate for someone to give up on smoking cannabis because of the risk of toxins and then drink water from a plastic bottle while driving in their gasoline powered car.
I also felt that there were some sections that could have developed further. I think edibles are a popular way to consume cannabis, but this method wasn’t covered very thoroughly.
I would also have liked the section on dry herb convection vaporizers to have been a little more thorough. I understand not wanting to recommend a specific brand or product, especially in a rapidly changing market, but it would have been helpful to dig into the pros and cons of desktop vs. portable and what specific things to look for when purchasing a model of vaporizer. I say this because it took me a lot of reading to decide on a desktop vaporizer (Super Surfer). Online forums dealing with cannabis are tricky to navigate because every stoner has a totally different viewpoint that they love to share.
If you’re new to cannabis or considering trying cannabis, this book would be a solid place to start.
While Braunstein was correct about the toxins in burning plant matter, papers, matches, and lighters, all of the facts he presents seemed to lack a context for the level of dangers in these poisons. It’s briefly touched on later in the book, but I’d hate for someone to give up on smoking cannabis because of the risk of toxins and then drink water from a plastic bottle while driving in their gasoline powered car.
I also felt that there were some sections that could have developed further. I think edibles are a popular way to consume cannabis, but this method wasn’t covered very thoroughly.
I would also have liked the section on dry herb convection vaporizers to have been a little more thorough. I understand not wanting to recommend a specific brand or product, especially in a rapidly changing market, but it would have been helpful to dig into the pros and cons of desktop vs. portable and what specific things to look for when purchasing a model of vaporizer. I say this because it took me a lot of reading to decide on a desktop vaporizer (Super Surfer). Online forums dealing with cannabis are tricky to navigate because every stoner has a totally different viewpoint that they love to share.
If you’re new to cannabis or considering trying cannabis, this book would be a solid place to start.
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