# Smoking leaves? **URL:** \ **Category:** Concentrates\ **Created:** [July 2, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205 "2021-07-02T22:11:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ezwicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@ezwicky](https://ilgmforum.com/u/ezwicky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/1 "2021-07-02T22:11:44Z")
When I started smoking pot, back in the early '70s, and really for a decade or more after that, all we got was leaf. And maybe some twigs and seeds (apologies to Jesse Winchester). So today I was trimming some leaves off my flowering plants and it occurred to me to save them and see what happens. Does anybody smoke leaf anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Hellraiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/hellraiser/32/294013_2.png) [@Hellraiser](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Hellraiser)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/2 "2021-07-02T22:31:30Z")
> [@ezwicky](#): > > Does anybody smoke leaf anymore? Not if we can help it, LOL but desperate times call for desperate actions. ---
**Author:** ![ezwicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@ezwicky](https://ilgmforum.com/u/ezwicky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/3 "2021-07-02T23:00:28Z")
I mean, is there anything in them? There was way back when, and weed has only gotten more potent since… ---
**Author:** ![Hellraiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/hellraiser/32/294013_2.png) [@Hellraiser](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Hellraiser)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/4 "2021-07-02T23:03:06Z")
Small bud leaves covered in trichs yes plenty of thc, the large fan leaves - not so much. But they can be used for other things like making cannabutter and such. ---
**Author:** ![plumbdand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/plumbdand/32/515126_2.png) [@plumbdand](https://ilgmforum.com/u/plumbdand)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/5 "2021-07-02T23:10:39Z")
We never got leaf back in the 70s it was all Mexican dirt weed full of stems and seeds. The only time we ever got leaf is was called homegrown it was someone’s plant that got pulled up before it ever flowered. It barely got you high if at all and tasted like grass. Then one day someone showed up with some weed we’d never seen before. They called it sinsemilla and told us how to grow it. ---
**Author:** ![pillsbury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/pillsbury/32/445586_2.png) [@pillsbury](https://ilgmforum.com/u/pillsbury)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/6 "2021-07-03T00:09:37Z")
> [@ezwicky](#): > > Does anybody smoke leaf anymore? Not me anymore but I sure did in the 60’s ---
**Author:** ![GrizzlyGrows](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/grizzlygrows/32/1097976_2.png) [@GrizzlyGrows](https://ilgmforum.com/u/GrizzlyGrows)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/7 "2021-07-03T01:50:36Z")
> [@plumbdand](#): > > Mexican dirt weed full of stems and seeds. Rightnoff the brick. Im 27 and I remember Mexican brick weed lol ---
**Author:** ![plumbdand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/plumbdand/32/515126_2.png) [@plumbdand](https://ilgmforum.com/u/plumbdand)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 2:27am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/8 "2021-07-03T02:27:51Z")
Used to get a kilo for $100 the size of a LA phone book ---
**Author:** ![Ontrack](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/ontrack/32/503320_2.png) [@Ontrack](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Ontrack)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/9 "2021-07-03T03:14:40Z")
I remember those days! Only went for homegrown (leaves) when all else failed. Bought 6 finger ozs for $20, 2 cigar size joints may get you a little buzz for a few minutes. Tasted like a$$. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzlyGrows](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/grizzlygrows/32/1097976_2.png) [@GrizzlyGrows](https://ilgmforum.com/u/GrizzlyGrows)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/10 "2021-07-03T03:31:40Z")
In my defense when I was younger and just started to try weed, me and a friend got a nut from his dad we were like 14. Made a can pipe. Didn’t even break it up put the whole big nug on the can and started smoking it. I took a few hit and passed it to him and he coughed it right off the can and we couldn’t find it. But it wasn’t brick weed it was good shit. And I was frieeeed ---
**Author:** ![plumbdand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/plumbdand/32/515126_2.png) [@plumbdand](https://ilgmforum.com/u/plumbdand)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/11 "2021-07-03T03:55:39Z")
I got busted with a 1/4lb of that sensemilla by an undercover in 1977 the cops had never seen anything like it. While I was handcuffed to a bench at the police station they were in a room smoking it. It stunk up the hallway. When I got to trial 3ozs were missing. They ended up dropping the charges to a misdemeanor. ---
**Author:** ![plumbdand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/plumbdand/32/515126_2.png) [@plumbdand](https://ilgmforum.com/u/plumbdand)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/12 "2021-07-03T05:23:38Z")
They charged me with maintaining a place where marijuana was being sold and dropped the possession and sales charges. My brother moved to Humboldt the next year and my other brother moved to Santa Cruz. It was all sativa in those days. We had to use the seeds from the crappy weed. Nobody knew that it’s all about the genetics at first. My brother used to say, " If you start out with a turd, you end up with a turd". Seeds from good weed were worth their weight in gold. ---
**Author:** ![Borderryan22](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/borderryan22/32/1167090_2.png) [@Borderryan22](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Borderryan22)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/13 "2021-07-04T16:46:00Z")
You can definitely make oil or butter for edibles. Smoking the leaves will do the trick, just not as much and definitely more harsh. An easy thing to do is just make tea lol. Boil around 10oz of water with a good tablespoon of coconut oil. Put about 3-4 grams of the ground leaf in a coffee filter and tie it off. Drop it in the boiling water/coconut oil for about 8 minutes, pull the bag out and carefully squeeze it dry after it cools a little. Pop a bag of whatever tea you like to steep. And it’s best to drink it hot. The oil sort of clumps when it cools, but when hot, the oil is thin and light and there isn’t really a taste so it doesn’t feel like you’re eating chapstick. Useless to sift it off the top as well, because being fat soluble, the THC will stick mostly to the oil. You can mask some of the taste with sweetener. ---
**Author:** ![Kfeather](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/kfeather/32/1046839_2.png) [@Kfeather](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Kfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/smoking-leaves/70205/14 "2024-12-05T14:42:27Z")
That should be in the remember when post.?