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A few years ago my friend's mother started using medical marijuana for pain management. My friend had to explain that no, you should not make a pipe out of a coke can because of the plastic liner, go to a head shop and buy a glass pipe like a normal person!

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> you should not make a pipe out of a coke can because of the plastic liner

I'm fairly sure it doesn't make much of an health impact considering the hot smoke you pull into your lung, but when I was kid and we made pipes out of cans in "emergencies" we'd use the outside of the can as where you put anything with fire, you don't have to turn it inside out to be able to smoke out of it.

> we'd use the outside of the can as where you put anything with fire, you don't have to turn it inside out to be able to smoke out of it.

This is what I pictured, but now I'm curious how you'd use the inside of the can.

Some stoner-engineering could hook up two cans with each other, one is the cup you use for burning the material and the other one the "water-passageway". Obviously not recommended as there is plastic liner on the inside, but in that way you could use the inside :) Basically a bong in two pieces made out of two cans.

genius

Heating up plastic gives off all kinds of really nasty organic compounds, far worse than the drug... doesn't need to be direct flame.

You win some, you lose some :shrug:

Heating plant material also gives off lots of carcinogenic stuff, tar and so on

Cheeseburgers are bad for you, but you shouldn't put motor oil on your cheeseburger...

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