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Does it seem like your weed never lasts as long as your money? Stretch your marijuana stash with these creative tips.

1. Kief Happens! – Whether you use a hand grinder or an electric coffee grinder, kief happens! That sticky, powdery substance in the bottom of your hand grinder or on the sides of your electric coffee grinder is gold! Scrape it up and smoke as is; or decarboxylate it (heat in an ovenproof dish at 225 degrees F for 15 minutes to activate the THC) and cook with it; or add it to a supercharged joint (see joint hacks). But never waste it!

2. Grind It – Use a grinder to break up your weed so the kief ends up in the grinder and not wasted on your fingers!

3. Less Joints – While joints are great when socializing with others, they burn through far more weed than pipes or bongs. Smoke joints socially but use pipes or bongs at home.

4. Less Bowls – Load hits not bowls. Instead of loading a full pipe or bong bowl of bud, load a hit or two – the amount you are going to smoke right then and no more.

5. Consider Concentrates – While a gram of concentrate – hash, BHO, resin, etc. might seem more expensive than bud, it can actually save you money over all. As concentrates can have anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of the THC of flowers, a tiny dab will do. You would have to smoke or vape way more flower in order to achieve the same buzz. As an added bonus, you will also be ingesting less smoke to get the same effects! Win/win.

6. Enhance It – As discussed in the Super Charged joint hacks, hash or kief can be used to enhance low potency pot. It works just as well when smoking from pipes or bongs. A tiny drop or dab of concentrate on otherwise mediocre weed can rival a top shelf buzz.

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7. Recycle It! – The toasty smelling plant material that’s left after vaporizing still has trichomes left in it! Some people like to use this when making butter and oil and for cooking, but we find we get a headache from these edibles so don’t recommend it. But your vaped “duff” is great for making topical concoctions like massage oils, balms, tinctures, and lotions.

8. Shotgun! – You get two hits for the price of one when you shotgun it with someone you love! Not to mention the shotgun hit always seems super potent, although we are not sure if there is any science behind this. To shotgun a hit, take a big toke, then pass it to your partner by blowing the smoke directly into his or her mouth.

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9. Volume discounts! – No matter what you are buying, the bigger the quantity, the lower the price. The same goes for marijuana, regardless if you are dealing with a legal dispensary or a black market provider. If you can’t afford an ounce (or several) on your own, consider going in with a friend and two. Split the cost and everyone gets a bargain!

10. Bargains at Events – While things like food and drinks are usually sold at wildly inflated prices at shows and special events, the weed sold at most cannabis expos is discounted. Why? Because the dispensary is hoping you will become a regular customer. Take advantage and shop at shows. Depending on where you live you’ll also likely be treated to lots of free samples.

11. Last Minute Deals – Want to save even more money on the best flowers, concentrates, and edibles? Attend a cannabis show, such as the High Times Cannabis Cup, on the last day as close to closing time as possible. Many vendors would rather sell you deeply discount merchandise than take it home, so likewise the last day, as near to closing time as possible, is always the best time to shop.

12. Deals on Accessories Too – The same “shop at shows at closing time” hack also applies to pipes, bongs, dab rigs, and any other accessory you can imagine. The closer to closing, the better the deals. Go forth and negotiate

13. Wholesale Deals – If you live in or are visiting a big city with a wholesale merchandise district, find the area that sells to smoke shops and head shops. If you go with cash, these “wholesale only” markets are usually willing to sell items to retail buyers too, at HUGELY discounted rates. It never hurts to ask.

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A clean pipe, bong, or dab rig is a happy pipe, bong or dab rig!

14. Best cleaner – Sure there are lots of expensive commercial pipe cleaning products on the market, but for our money, none work as well as good old 92% alcohol, the kind you can buy in any drug store for about two bucks. Stock up on extra when you find it on sale!

15. Auto Clean – Clean your glass pipes automatically by placing them in a lidded jar of 92% alcohol, place the jar on top of a towel on top of the washing machine and do your laundry. The vibration from the washing machine will help clean all the gunk from the pipe with no scrubbing. Rinse, dry and use! A friend discovered this hack by doing the same on a generator, which works better as it has more vibration. If you don’t let the gunk build up too much, the washing machine version works in most instances. If you have LOTS of buildup, you might still have to do a little reaming with a pipe cleaner.

16. Add Agitators – An old waitress trick for cleaning out burnt coffee pots is to add salt and ice and swish it around. The same principle works when cleaning pipes and bongs. Add an abrasive “agitator” like coarse salt or rice grains along with 92% alcohol and shake. The solids help shake loose the gunk clinging to the insides of the smoking apparatus. Empty, rinse, dry and enjoy.

17. Got Wood? – Never use alcohol or cleaning solutions on wooden pipes. Instead use a crumbled ball of aluminum foil to ream out the pipe bowl of gunk. Clean wooden pipes often so gunk does not have the chance to build up in the first place.

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The humble joint is a classic for a reason, but just because something is simple, does not mean it can’t be improved upon.

18. Don’t have a roach clip? Use a pipe instead. A metal one-hitter cigarette imposter is good fix, but you can even stand the roach up in a glass pipe and smoke it until it’s gone!

19. Use a Crutch – . A crutch, in marijuana terms, is nothing more than a is a piece of tightly rolled cardboard placed at the end when rolling. There is no need for roach clips if you use a crutch. Just smoke it down until you reach the paper crutch and toss it. The crutch helps direct the flow of smoke, keeps plant material from falling into your mouth, and prevents your fingers and lips from getting burned. Once you start using crutches, you’ll never go back.

20. DIY Crutches – Some rolling papers (like OCB brand) come with crutches included with the pack. Or, you can buy pads of precut crutches. Better yet, save money and recycle those useless business cards from people you will never, ever contact by turning them into crutches. Use cards that are mostly white, cut into small strips and use when rolling joints.

21. Pasta Crutch – No cardboard crutches or old business cards laying around? Use an uncooked piece of fusilli pasta as a quick crutch substitute.

22. Supercharged Joints – If your rolling weed falls on the low end of the dank scale, augment it by sprinkling a line of kief or hash over the weed before rolling. Some people like to take it even further by adding BHO and kief to their joints! We avoid putting it on the outside, while this might look impressive, it’s more effective and economical to put all concentrates – in with the ground bud and making a big smokable marijuana “burrito.”

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I can’t believe I ate the while thing!

There’s no easier way to over-medicate than by eating too much medicated food. It may be uncomfortable, but it isn’t dangerous, so calm down, it will pass. That said, there are some things you can do to help that feeling of being over medicated pass more quickly.

23. Hydrate – Drink lots of water. You are probably going to want to anyway as cottonmouth, the most common marijuana side effect, is even more pronounced with edibles.

24. Eat Something – Eating something nonmedicated can also help ease the symptoms of too much medication. Taking edibles on a full stomach can also mitigate getting over medicated in the first place.

25. CBDs to the Rescue! – CBD, marijuana’s second most famous cannabinoid, can counter the effects of too much THC. Smoke some high CBD weed or even better take a few blasts of Bhang’s CBD breath spray. Almost instantly that paranoid, uncomfortable, over medicated feeling will start to dissipate.

26. Chew Peppercorns – Believe it or not, peppercorns can counteract the effects of too much marijuana. This is due to similar terpenoid profiles and how the two plants interact with each other, but the bottom line is, it works! Try chewing on 2 or 3 peppercorns for a few minutes when feeling too high.

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Sometimes you love it, but there are times in every stoner’s life where you would rather not have that tell tale fragrance around.

27. The Method Matters – Joints are by far the stinkiest marijuana ingestion method. Conversely a vaporizer will emit little odor and what little it does will dissipate almost instantly.

28. A Good Buddy – Check out the Smoke Buddy for a personal portable carbon air filter you can take you. Smoke gets blown in one end, clean air comes out the other.

29. DIY Buddy – Make a makeshift Smoke Buddy (also known as a Spoof) from an empty cardboard tube (like from toilet paper or paper towels). Use an elastic band to secure a scented dryer sheet over one end. Blow smoke into the open end to be filtered through the dryer sheet.

30. Bag It – Try Smelly Bags for transporting your weed, as these specially designed baggies are meant to reduce odor.

31. Stuff It – As many teenagers already know, a towel stuffed at the bottom of a door can keep the smell of smoke from migrating outside a given room.

32. Mask It! – Making marijuana infused butter or oil can be fragrant to say the least. Mask some of the odor by cooking other strong smelling foods at the same time. Roasting garlic works well.

33. Contain It! – Another cooking hack is to use the Hamilton Beach “Stay n Go” slow cooker that comes with a rubber gasket around the lid and clamps to keep it closed. Cut down on the odor of infusing butter and oil by keeping this slow cooker tightly clamped shut until cooking is finished and nobody will be any the wiser to what you are doing.

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Nothing is more frustrating than a clogged pipe or bong with nary a poker in sight. Don’t panic! There’s something lying around the house (or even your hotel room) that can get the job done.

34. Heavy Duty Paper Clips – Straighten one to form a poker. Plastic coated ones work especially well and are easy to clean the gunk off with a paper towel.

35. Barbecue Skewers – Depending on the size of the pipe, metal and/or wooden skewers can sometimes clear the passages.

36. Toothpicks – Can work for small clogs and/or small pipes. Try not to break it off inside the pipe.

37. Hardware Nails – Long, thin hardware nails can also do the job.

38. Knitting Needles – You have to knit fine yarns to have a needle thin enough to work as a poker, but they exist.

39. Baked Potato Nails – Found in every 50s kitchen, the same metal “nails” that helped your baked potatoes cook evenly can also help ream out your pipes.

40. Wire Twist Ties – They aren’t that stiff on their own, but in a pinch the paper coated wires used to close bread bags and such can work, especially when doubled or tripled in width.

41. Pipe Cleaners – Regular tobacco pipe cleaners are great for cleaning out the airways of glass or wooden marijuana pipes too.

42. Champagne – In a pinch, you can straighten the wire holding on a Champagne cork to unclog your pipe. Cheers!

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