Tea 4:20 Edition: Smoking Tea
There is a bit of information online about the healthful effects of smoking tea leaves. I do not condone this, I would not try this, I’m not telling you to try this — I believe that smoking anything is harmful to your health, but I wanted to see if I could dig up any information on people that have been smoking tea.
After a bunch of searching, I found many forums with people asking if it is safe to smoke tea leaves. Some people have tried this and have claimed to feel relaxed after doing so. I even found an article from my friends at TChing: http://www.tching.com/2009/01/smoking-green-tea-is-it-safe-to-light-up/
I have read several accounts of Chinese families smoking tea from a hookah, but I can not find any evidence whatsoever as to the historical significance behind this. It seems to be something people try when they are short of cash and are willing to smoke anything to get some sort of a high.
If you have any scientific information behind this topic, feel free to leave a comment or get a hold of me on twitter: @WorldofTea.
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Green tea is an agonist of the CB1 receptor in the brain, cannabinoid 1. This is the same receptor that is also a receptor for THC delta 9 the psychoactive component in cannabis.
I smoke tea leaves I even made a bong to smoke it through t definitely got high I used green tea 100% organic tea leaves. I live in an apartment so I can smoke weed when I m home its a great substitute
Ok so yes tea is bad for you in many ways but also good for you. Also what isnt bad for you now a days? I have smoked tea usually chai twinnings (very exellent tea) and it does relax you because of the carbon monoxide smoking anything gives you a “head rush”. I support tea over ciggarettes becauae so far ciggarettes have taken millions of lives and tea um… let me see uh… zero!
i smoke tea and maijuana (legaly). tea doesnt give you a high but it makes you feel very relaxed. idont know how harmfull it is but it can be no more harmfull than any other smokeables. smoking is different for everyone in their own way and if you smoke cigarettes then making the funny desicion to swap to smoking tea would be better for your health. one more perk to smoking tea is it’s legal
Ive smoked peppermint cane tea n it definately got me high!!
I use to smoke ciggarettes because I get stressed from having a busy schedule from work but I stopped smoking because I didn’t want to get addicted but I don’t want to continue it but I do want to try smoking tea my concern is does smoking tea show up on drug test since it gives u a “high” feeling
No, It doesn’t contain anything that would pop on a drug test like THC so I doubt it
If you drink the tea would it show up on a drug test?
The “high” feeling is probably just lack of oxygen? Burning anything produces carbon monoxide which displaces oxygen in the blood.
Green tea is an agonist of the CB1 receptor in the brain, cannabinoid 1. This is the same receptor that is also a receptor for THC delta 9, found in cannabis.
Hello, normally I wouldn’t comment on anything, but I am going through some real rough times with my teenage son. He has been skipping school to smoke tea. The kind of tea they smoke is soaked in acetone first and dried out. Now before he added the acetone, his friends and him would smoke regular tea. I don’t know if theres alot of different teas or not but I know hes not “right” when he gets home and is very moody, mean, abusive”verbally, and physically” out of it really. I know he also has tried that j dub. So my question to you is how is this healthy? How does my 14 year old son get this, and how do I put a sop to it? I am very concerned not just for him but I have two younger kids that he is abusing too. I have asked for help from all kinds of different professionals and all I was told is that I walking a very fine line with my son, and if either one of us cross that line I lose all three of my kids? Can someone help?
Ummm Caitlin. To help you out more id assume your son is using JWH-018 aka active ingredient in Spice. So in other words your son and freinds are using tea as a base, similar to using comet, baking soda, etc used as a mixing agent with coke. So anyway u can use anything Tea,marshmallow leaves, etc. and you spray the JWH chemical on it and use acetone for it to evaporate and mix the ingredients in the base. Regular tea won’t do anything harmful. And weed for that matter will just lower motavation. So in other words yeah your son is probably using spice and or making it out of tea. Ohhhhhh i just did research so yeah J dub is slang for JWH-018. What do u know. So yeah your son is downright lieng about it being regular tea. I was hooked on that shit for awhile till i almost went into analpyhtic shock. this is what happens when people stress marijuana use. For fuck sakes just stay on top of him.,get his focus on education up if it isnt already decent.
Shit tell him hey u can smoke herb in the house or fucking stick him in rehab if he aint 18. thats about it i usually dont help people on the net but i saw this and can’t ignore it. This fake as spice shit is gonna kill more and more. For fuck sakes
I suggest him to smoke cannabis instead of this chemical he is putting on the tea. I am an avid user of marijuana and its effects on me are very positive and I do suggest people try it to see how it works with their brain since every single person has a different experience with the herb. I have smoked tea leaves before because I was low on cash but its not harmful what so ever except that its smoke i found it rather calming. Hope I could help.
ok im a 16 year old and yes i have done spice. I have done it a few times and from experience i can tell you that it messes with your heart. the last time i ever did spice me and my friend felt like we were dying and forced our selves to sleep. He may not appreciate it now but i wish that my mom would have caught me like you caught your son. There are now cases on the internet reporting of deaths from using this. It isnt sold anymore but you can still get the ingreients to make it. If you want to keep your son alive, do whatever you can to stop him. My friend that felt like he was dying now has a mild heart condition because his heart beats very rapidly. Please stop your sons sake and for your younger kids and lastly for your self.
im haveing the same problem with some punks smokeing tea at my sons bus stop,an im realy worried that my son might pick up on this crap..
I smoke tea any kind really, and I am amazed at what it does for me when I don’t have any money to buy any cigarettes. Tea really relaxes you, and stimulates the mood. It is a lot safer than cigarettes, and a better for you too. If you really want to try something, try the morning mist tea, it will get you feeling really good.
‘big wayne’ what tea are you smoking i wanna know
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i dont contribute to smoking tea
im buzzing off it right now mates. and i dont know why but i cant stop speaking british. then again i am part british. maybe this is why they talk like this. and really i should be asleep right now but i just tried that smokin tea idea and im in an extremely happy mood. and slightly energized. but thats it pretty much. i say definetly worth it as a mood enhancer. but do it earlier in the day so you dont stay up late enjoying the feeling. thats all ive got to say. ta-ta.
Oh and another thing, everytime I smoke tea, ( Tetley, herbal or anyking) it smells like weed, so my cousin accuses me of smoking weed but im not.
So I smoke tea. I hope its not dangerous, and its true , it does give you a buzz like weed. My cousin was like hallucinating when he came in to my room though. And m kinda freaked cuz i found if i smoke alot of it I hallucinate.
Tea really does get you high as gas, you just have to smoke alot. im high as balls right now from tea, it feels alot better than smoking nutmeg, might i even say weed. with weed you feel out of normal but with tea you feel, just, amazing
dont smoke flavored tea :p shit made my friend puke! And it never made us feel anything at all so ig it depends on the person. Get a job and buy some real weed.
the get a job thing doesnt really make sense with somke weed but yes moke weed over tea
Is It normal that when smoked it smells like “POT”
lol what?????? smoking tea??? you freaky ass junkies why not smoke a banana peel or potatoe skin, go get a script for zanax before you O.D. on lipton lol
for real i cant believe all this crap im reading..
It has been scientifically proven to in fact create a marijuana like buzz, however this is not due to CO2 in the bloodstream, or anything to do with the smoke at all for that matter. The state of mind created by not just green tea, but any herbal tea, is due to a certain chemical in the smoke that is chemically related to the same chemical that is found in salvia but in much smaller amounts.
I like tea. When i Drink a cup, i sometimes smoke a pinch afterwards to get more relaxing affects from it.
I too like to smoke a pinch when I have tea. Actually, it usually the other way around, I find the tea soothes the throat after “smoking a pinch”
What kind of tea was it that you smoked?
Seems to me that the smoke itself is what is the relaxing factor – increased CO2 in the bloodstream always makes you feel more relaxed then more energized when oxygen returns to normal levels afterwards. Just inhaling smoke, wether it be from burning tea or anything really, is not healthy.
I would hope that people find other ways – healthier ways- to relax because even though this is less dangerous than cigarettes, it’s still harmful.
Hey there, guy.
First off, not a fan of watching some guy bumble around for the first time rolling anything. Watching an amateur do things wrong? Interesting. But to get into the meat of the matter, I have recently begun smoking tea (Tetley) with a few whole cloves mixed in and found it to be a nice, relaxing smoke that /must/ be doing something. I do feel relaxed and somewhat energized afterward. I must say that I am completely surprised by all this but I do suppose that it makes some sense. I think I’ll try out some of the better teas I normally procure to see where this leads. I enjoy the combustion of my goods but hate tobacco. Your fear to this end is understandable but please do not hold the dangerous bog of Big Tobacco cancer sticks with all things smoked, which is the easily made association.
the burning of any organic (carbon containing) material, including tea leaves, produces known human carcinogens, these are found in the soot or particulate matter that condenses from ANY smoke, not just cigarettes. they are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs, and most notable of them is benzoApyrene which is a class 1 human carcinogen. and when you light your ”goods” on fire and inhale them into your lungs, you are also inhaling thousands of other exact same chemicals found in cigarettes, such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, acetaldehyde, acrolein, and hydrogen cyanide, among many others.
does it leave a smell in your mouth. because i aint bout getting caught