Let me preface by saying I've always been a moderate, responsible weed-smoker. Who smokes AFTER my medical paperwork-filing job and I'm at home in my rural private property, in which nobody else is being bothered. Nor do I advocate anyone under the age of 18 being a stoner.
At any rate, I've always liked rolling joints so fat they resemble tampons -- I GOTTA smoke my Tampax, lol. Bong hits have their interesting advantages with the smoke-cooling water-elbow, but I haven't had a bong in years so I've been in the habit of rolling my female-hygiene-looking fat joints for a long, long time. I do like the semi-sweet aftertaste that joint/tampons leave.
I always liked a bong. I was much like you, enjoying my weed in the evening after work and responsibilities were done. But now the drug screenings make that a liability, so I gave it up until I retire in about 3 years.
One point to make, don't put cold water in the bong. Put warm water in it. When the smoke goes thru the cold water, it is cooled. Which make the air contract. As it warms in your lungs it expands. Coughing follows. Warm water warms it, and it cools in the lungs.
The bad parts about bongs is their size and the water. One is just old paranoia. The other is one of the nastiest substances on the planet.
Bongs really do deliver a clean, unique hit of weed. Back in high school my best friend and I had a 4-foot-bong we made out of a length of PVC pipe, into which we drilled two holes near the bottom, installed a pipe mechanism in that hole (other hole being the carb), leading to the bottom and fastened/sealed a Mason jar on the bottom of this PVC pipe, in which the "water elbow" existed. Both of us nicknamed our ramshackle, improv. 4-foot-bong "The Doctor" because it cured whatever was wrong with anyone, lol. Sometimes when each of us were taking a bong hit from "The Doctor" as a prank we'd blow a big blast of air into the bong's carb, to turbocharge any bong hit and make each other hilariously cough and gag for eons....good, funny times.
The creativity for making bongs and pipes is amazing. I made some pretty cool bongs back in the day. I once made a pipe out of an apple and the screen from a sink. Tasted pretty decent.
Thats why I love the cheap ass little plastic rolling machine perfect joint minimum paper ...you can pick them up in any tobacco shop
I had one of these to which also work well ... I broke my last one need a new one
Apple and pears hell yea
Ever do a gravity bong in the kitchen sink? ...ah yes those teenage years
Today I have a little tiny glass bong for when i'm outta paper or just feel like doing a bong hit .
I had a glazed ceramic two person skull bong as a teen ..... two clear pvc tubes coming out of the eyes ,the nose had a hole for the carb and the mouth had the pipe where the bowl was attached to .
Also had an electric bong that had a face mask that covered your nose and mouth.
Had a small aquarium pump for a ten gallon tank attached to a piece of wood on one end The Other side having whats best described as two betta fish bowls . What you would do is you would get the giant bowl going ...their was a rubber seal between the little fish bowls and would put one beta fish bowl on top of the other and strap the face mask on.......
once ya got it going all ya had to do was hit the carb and uh boy
Someone said vapes
Today the vapes are good ya gotta be careful though ... the brand my dealer was getting was good ... all of a sudden he got a bad batch they were not smoke-able ...He actually took em back I aint paying for garbage .."store credit" ....He said "I know They were crap ".....a freaking brand they sell out of dispensaries in CA ..you could tell by the taste that yeah ......somethings off here
They were really good to ..That brand ill never buy one again
homemade candy and cookies if they're done well are out of this world ...