Effects of Smoking Kava?
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KavaJazz
Kava Curious
The reason I was wondering in the first place though was that the reports I read said that smoking gave all of the effects with a very small amount of kava. If one were to take an aqueous extract of kava like we normally drink, then allow it to sit in a dish with lots of surface area until the water evaporated, maybe it wouldn't taste be so bad in a vaporizer. You could get more effects with less.
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spacegirlelt
Daydreamer
I *can't* imagine smoking Kava would be that great. Lighting the Kava would basically destroy the kavalactones in it and render it useless. I've read some of those Erowid reports and while they sometimes feature really insightful stories and are a good resource for user experiences, I wonder if those people would just smoke anything.
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spacegirlelt
Daydreamer
As I've seen. A lot of the people there are into the 'herbal highs' kind of stuff, which usually produces no desirable effects for them. Smoking kava must smell terrible, from what I have heard.
Just to let you guys know, a friend of mine used to sell kava to smoke and he stopped selling it because everyone said it did not work, he used the dried leaves and a little bit of 30% kava extract. I never tried it because I do not smoke but everyone I talked to that did try it said it did not work.
Drinking it is much better for me and healthier than smoking it, especially since we do not know how the kavalactones or other ingredients change after being heated up so much by smoking it. Again there is thousands of years of success with drinking Noble kava and not much time or success with smoking the kava. Drink Noble and be happy.
Aloha.
Chris
Drinking it is much better for me and healthier than smoking it, especially since we do not know how the kavalactones or other ingredients change after being heated up so much by smoking it. Again there is thousands of years of success with drinking Noble kava and not much time or success with smoking the kava. Drink Noble and be happy.
Aloha.
Chris
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KavaCat
Meow.
My thought is this: If the islanders who have had kava around for a long, long time, don't smoke the stuff, then you can be pretty sure it isn't worth smoking. Given the taste, I'm sure they would have tried. People try to smoke just about anything and everything. Kava is not the green goddess. You can't make it into anything you want it to be (as unfortunate as that is). Just drink up!
SNORT IT!!!! Just kidding, please don't snort it.
Roaddog
Kava Who?
Yes, I agree. Much Love. Roaddog....
StinkWeed
Kava Enthusiast
As a young teen experimenting with things to alleviate my anxiety and muscle pain, I admittedly tried to vaporize a concentrated paste I concocted, it produced some ear ringing and a little bit of headiness, tasted HORRIBLE, and left my lungs feeling damaged. I wouldn't recommend it at all. Vaporizing it was awful I can't imagine how much worse smoking it would be.
KavaJazz
Kava Curious
Well, I succumbed to my curiosity. I smoked a bit out of a water pipe. It was very hard to get much smoke due to how densely packed the kava gets, but it wasn't too harsh of smoke. I feel nice kava-like effects that I'm pretty sure aren't a placebo.
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