User:Tokerdesigner

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

[edit] I. Tokers

This user promotes edits which address the no. 1 human health crisis in the history of the planet -- the hot-burning overdose holocaust of 5.4 megadeaths a year (WHO Feb. 2008 estimate) which occur not because of the tobacco, cannabis or any other herb but because of the Designed-to-Kill (or do you say Kool) intentionally faulty drug delivery device known as a "cigarette".

With 4.5 percent of the world's population the USA has 8.5 percent (440,000/yr.) of the world's cigaret deaths. This problem could be solved literally overnight by

  • Providing every cigaret smoker (USA = 45 million) with a $600 Volcano Vaporizer, found effective (2007) in reducing smoking toxicity and endorsed by NORML Executive Director Allen F. St.Pierre. This one-time cost of $US27 bil. can be paid for from the $US200 bil. Clinton-Gore (1998) settlement with the tobacco industry, moneys which were intended to be used for smoking cessation programs.
  • Legalization and decontrol of cannabis, effectively enabling both cannabis and tobacco users to possess and use unhindered a vaporizer, and/or other smoking reduction utensils including one-hitters, mini-toke, kiseru, midwakh etc. which can be made by any 14-year-old nearsighted nun in a garage near you.

[edit] Diagram of proposed worldwide standard single toke utensil (for 25 mg. servings)

(4 x enlarged)

                                      1/4"(6 mm)
                                   interior diameter
                                     <---------->

                            ________              ________
                         ^          \            /
      3/16"(5 mm)        |          |x          x|          ^   xxxxx =            
     crater depth        |          |x          x|          |   preshaped screen
  (to base of screen)    |          |x          x|          |   (securely nested on
                         V           \xxxxxxxxxx/           V   shoulder formed by
                           ^         |          |               crater narrowing)
   narrower subchannel     |         |          |
      leading to           |         |          | 
     extension tube        V         V          V



[edit] II. Music extended family education initiative

The number one missed opportunity to promote literacy worldwide is for children, starting before age 3, to learn to read scores (sheet music) simultaneously with hearing, humming, singing or playing music (worldlanguage) ranging from something they made up themselves to huge complex symphonies by Roussel, Glazunov, Martinů and all those other Schwann Catalog heroes. By age 4 they will have taught themselves to read wordlanguage, also, without need for Dick and Jane trivia and bureaucratic teachers.

See Wikiversity: Essential Preschool Part I for directions how to make a line of early education music toys out of scrap lumber. See Wikiversity: Preschool Project for a list of exciting railroad symphonies to read and hints on how to get toddlers started score-reading.

This user will contribute interrelated information to biographical articles on composers and descriptive studies of music, especially as connected to human and railroad travel experience, and character formation in the sense envisioned by Dr. Suzuki (1898-1998).


[edit] Objection to overdose equipment pictures

Wouldnt displaying the brand name "Bugler" associated with rolling and smoking Cannabis be considered libelous?

I think it can be considered biased-- toward the tobacco company which markets Bugler, and toward tobacco companies in general which benefit from (especially young) cannabis users being miseducated to think cigarets and rolling papers, rather than a low-burning-temperature utensil, to be the "normal" way to smoke cannabis. It is a step along the way to recruiting them into tobacco cigaret addiction. A further step is to glamorize the idea of rolling cannabis in a cigar skin which contains nicotine. (Thankfully the brandname picture was removed.)

As of April 2008 children consulting this article in search of true information about cannabis smoking options are being shown a "glass piece" (wide-bowl pipe) so large that easily a gram ($10?) will fit inside. For balance could there be at least one picture of a non-carbon-monoxide-overdose alternative, i.e. a vaporizer or a single toke utensil permitting 25-mg. servings (see below)? The Japanese Kiseru and middle-eastern Midwakh are established traditional narrow-crater utensils and could be pictured here instead of only the Big Bowl.

Although I agree that the smaller dosage methods may be nice for newer users a .5 joint or a gram bowl is NOT OVERDOSE EQUIPMENT I have personally participated in a hotbox where four people smoked two 3.5gram blunts and a gram joint, that works out to two grams of cronic whiteman weed, not asian shake, and none of us O.D. by any stretch of the imagination.

In fact it is virtually impossible to O.D. on cannabis because you would go unconscious before you could and to even reach that state you would need to smoke copious amounts of weed. Besides there is no point in smoking that much because before you reach that stage you will invariably green out and what a waste of weed that would be. Potheadpoet (talk) 18:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

With US$280/oz. herb that 3.5-g. "blunt" costs $35-- where do you get the money? Most readers can't afford that.

Dude life must harsh living where prices are that high i can get that 3.5 grams for $25 and with the canadian $ on par thats the same in US$ life rocks in canada after all we burned washignton. The Great White North all the way Potheadpoet (talk) 19:26, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

The case for the non-overdose approach is that when you hot-burn a lot of herb you destroy much THC, and overdose not on the THC but on the carbon monoxide etc.! The wider the bowl, the harder you have to suck to get all the smoke, increasing oxygen flow and burning the herb hotter. (But let us agree on borrowing pictures from the kiseru and midwakh articles to replace the big bowl shown?)Tokerdesigner (talk) 00:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I have no objection to borrowing photos, but i think it would be wrong to replace the current photo. perhaps it would be more appropriate to acquire a photo which displays the great range of devices for consuming marijauna from the diminutive kiseru to the larger pipes Potheadpoet (talk) 19:15, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vaporizers should be at top of article

Because of the known hazards of smoking, the first order of business should be for everyone interested in cannabis to know of this recently introduced alternative to smoking. In fact, the vaporizer is the most important thing in the history of smoking even if, with the progress of technology, it means the end of smoking as we have known it (good riddance).

The Volcano vaporizer, endorsed in April 2007 by NORML Director Allen F. St. Pierre, costs US$600-- steep, but think again, it sounds like a bargain compared to a $2000/year pack-a-day cigaret habit, or the "blunt" method mentioned above for cannabis. Other models range down as far as $24.99, but are they reliable or worth the money? Can very small servings, such as 25 mg., be used effectively in all vaporizers? More reporting on this would benefit the public-- both tobacco and cannabis users. Unfortunately one external website which provided substantial commercial information about available brands of vaporizers was recently (April 2008) erased from the refs in this article.

[edit] "Marshall Plan" for smokers?

The Clinton-Gore settlement (1998) provides $US200 billion tobacco money to the U. S. government, which is supposed to be used for stop-smoking programs. (Instead, states and municipalities have hijacked most of the money for the usual budget culprits-- roads, schools, etc.)

What if the U.S. taxpayer bought every cigaret smoker (45 million) a $600 Volcano (27 billion dollars)? This one-time expense could eventually eliminate a U.S. national cost of $180 bil. every year treating cigaret-related expenses.

[edit] Response to an editor about single toke utensils

Will work on this when I can, but, heh, for obvious reasons I can't really poke around with it too much when I am at work. Not that I really smoke anymore (As Chef says, there's a time and a place for everything, and it's called "college") but I wouldn't want my co-workers or employers getting the wrong idea, heh.. --Jaysweet (talk) 22:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Dear Jay,

Thanks for your counsel entered on User talk: tokerdesigner.

1. Your objection that the temperature difference between narrow and wide bowl smoking utensils is unverified will prove fruitful, for I am emailing researchers who have published on cannabis smoking-- Holmes, U. Vermont (harm reduction), Tashkin, UCLA (lung pathology), asking them to check this and provide verified temperature figures which can be duly cited in Wikipedia.

You can verify this yourself (but it wouldn't be OR, millions have already observed it): try a toke in a big bowl and a toke in a one-hitter. If you suck hard enough to get all the smoke (and who has the cojones to resist doing so and let the smoke $$$ get away),

a. the burning ember in the wide bowl glows brighter than in the one-hitter;

b. the color of the wide bowl ember is bright yellow-orange instead of red-orange as in the one-hitter.

The burning temperature at air speed needed to retrieve all smoke is proportional to the area of the utensil's aperture, i.e. A=Πr2, thus dwbbling the diameter of the crater quadruples the airflow supplying oxygen for combustion.

The article is unbalanced as long as it includes the illustration of a hot burning overdose glass pipe, diam. 2 cm., but not those of Kiseru and Midwakh, traditional forms that have been around for centuries (at least the article must retain links to the articles on these).

2. I applaud your removal of the "Bugler" ad, not because of the rolling machine as you appeared to think in your note to SqueakBox, but because of the blatant commercial advertising of the trade name "Bugler", a division of Reynolds American, Inc., supplier of 1/3 of all 700-mg. overdose cigarets to the U.S. market. This stood atop the article for months and no one got round to removing it even though it was possibly the no. 1 violation of Wikipedia ethics in the history of the organization. I only had the cojones to move it down next to "Rolled", you got rid of it altogether, thanks.

3. The "Unreferenced" tag over the Vaporizer section (11 lines) is incorrect. There are two references, one to a commercial info source on vaporizers, the other to the historic April 2007 Abrams study endorsed by NORML. (That this study ever occurred at all is due to costly tedious litigation by NORML to get HHS, DEA etc. to respond to its application to acquire and use twenty (20) measly grams of riefer. Who says there isn't a conspiracy against vaporizers?--www.maps.org/mmj/vaporizer.html. also provides update since Abrams et al.

4. Meanwhile the section "Rolled" (34 lines) including Joint and Blunt contains no references or sources. The section "Gravity bong", of dubious value, contains no references or sources. Hello??

5. Bravo for cutting down the coverage of mixing with tobacco. After reviewing the source you recommended ("Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, or textbook") I think that section violates it, as does "Gravity bong", and the latter alone hogs many more lines than were ever devoted to one-hitters.

6. Why retain Shotgun (dangerous and unhealthy) but omit Double Toke or Breathbonnet?

7.More on "manual, guidebook" etc., WikiHow and Wikibooks are new and have 1/100 the readers Wikipedia has, meanwhile Google sends children wanting to know how to smoke cannabis directly to Wikipedia's article. If it mentions any article on those other wikis, it's on page 15 (search results 141-150, etc.) and almost no one looks that far.

The problem may be, the title "Cannabis smoking" clearly implies to masses checking out Google that they will find directions in this article, and they don't know about the rule that Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook etc. So it is an example of the bait-and-switch you complained of when theatergoers expecting to see "Les Miserables" wound up confronted with an anti-smoking lecture. (In fact, for months they wound up confronted with a pack of Bugler rolling papers and lengthy dissertations on mixing with tobacco.) So the ethics of Wikipedia or of Google are brought into question.

8. If you were wondering why TD likes the word "Tobackgo", because it clearly describes what the conspiracy is about. Anyone who thinks "smoking" as we have known it will be tolerated much longer is "living in the past." (But that's crystal balling, forbidden on Wikipedia I know.) Check theWHO press conference Feb. 7, 2008.

The challenge before us is to kick through the paper door separating "tobacco issues" from "cannabis issues" and view the smoking problem from a unified perspective. WHO and Mayor Bloomberg will be brought to realize "you can't be anti-tobacco without being pro-cannabis." Rep. Barney Frank (Federal cannabis legalization, March 27, 2008), NORML, DRC, MPP, Jack Herer, et al. will be brought to realize "you can't be pro-cannabis without being anti-tobacco."

From a surprisingly candid comment on the Cannabis:smoking talk page, Jaysweet provides an unpleasant picture of a job situation where one must refrain from smoking cannabis or hide it successfully from co-employees. This is exactly the kind of person, or situation, that cries out for a one-hitter. You can take your utensil, with a 25-mg. serving of properly sifted herb, into a john or other little-frequented place, burn the slow single toke, then breathe in and out of a breathbonnet (paper or plastic bag, 1-liter capacity). After ten or more breaths, you will have absorbed just about all the THC, leaving almost no odor behind. A vaporizer is worth having in your private residence.

By the financial responsibility shown in avoiding wasteful practices you will fit into Rep. Barney Frank"s definition of responsible use and have a leg up arguing the point should someone wish to deprive you of your right to moderate, reasonable dosages of beneficent herb.