Pubdate: Wed, 01 Aug 2012
Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian, The (CA)
Copyright: 2012 San Francisco Bay Guardian
Contact:  http://www.sfbg.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/387
Author: Caitlin Donohue

DAB'LL DO YA

Despite the Actions of Our President, We Will Continue to Dab

HERBWISE

The neatly-dressed line of donors waiting outside the Fox Theatre on 
July 21 gawked at the procession coming down Broadway Avenue. Was it 
the impassioned protesters in wheelchairs, the oversized fake joint, 
or the realization that stoners could be so... vehement that had them 
transfixed?

"Obama keep your promise!" On the occasion of the President's 
fundraising trip to Oakland - his first to the Bay Area since medical 
cannabis cornerstone Harborside Health Center was ordered to close in 
a letter from US Attorney Melinda Haag - medical marijuana had turned 
out for an unwelcoming party. Obama's administration has been messing 
with weed, and patients weren't about to go quietly into the night. A 
crowd of hundreds took a lap around the theater, starting and ending 
at Frank Ogawa-Oscar Grant Plaza.

Of course, the President wasn't there to see it. Obama was hours late 
for his announced appearance at the Fox at 3pm.

Pre-march, sharing space in an Oaksterdam University classroom with a 
bank of healthy marijuana plants, OU president Dale Sky Jones 
welcomed members of the media to a panoramic look at today's cannabis 
advocates. Jim Gray, ex-assistant US Attorney and current Libertarian 
Party vice presidential candidate spoke, and Harborside's Steve 
Deangelo asserted that "if the US Attorneys can come after a 
dispensary like Harborside, no dispensary in this country is safe." 
Patients finished out this chorus of voices. The father of a medical 
marijuana patient - his young boy has Dravet Syndrome, a type of 
infant epilepsy - despaired that, should Harborside go under, his 
offspring would never get the right kind of medicine.

"What am, going to ask a drug dealer 'do you have CBD?'" he asked, 
hands and voice shaking. "You're going after the wrong drug."

DABBING 101

Oddly enough, considering the drama surrounding its legality, 
cannabis culture continues to grow unabated. Consider this: there are 
forms of ingestion that even I, your somewhat-dedicated pot 
columnist, remain unacquainted with. This is annoying, so upon pot 
Internet celebrity Coral Reefer's 1000th tweet regarding "dabbing," I 
called her out on it. Would she be willing to teach me the ways of 
this mysterious process?

She would! Dabbing means inhaling the vapor the results from melting 
butane, or even super-melt cold water-extracted hash. Intriguingly, 
it resembles nothing so much as smoking crack with a bong, but never 
you mind, vapor has a lower impact on your lungs and increased 
potency means its a quicker process than smoking "flower," or regular 
dried buds.

So: heat up your dabbing surface. Reefer had no less than four kinds 
of set-ups for dabbing in her apartment, including a "skillet," or 
flat disc that attaches to any glass-on-glass bong (most dabbing kits 
will work with your pre-existing water pipe) and various kinds of 
"nails," or round, rimmed surfaces specifically made for dabbing. 
Wait until it's red hot. Take your specially-designed metal pick, or 
"dabber," and with it rub some concentrate, called "super-melt" or 
"wax" at most dispensary, onto your post-red-hot surface. Inhale. 
Clear. Inhale. Repeat process.
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