The Best Ways to Clean Your Weed Gear


Weed is great, until you have to clean up after yourself.

The potent smell of cannabis comes from a unique combination of chemicals, many of which present in the resin excreted from the growing plant or extracted from a harvested plant. This resin is extremely hydrophobic, and can coat everything it comes into contact with— as many farmers and processors in goop-coated coveralls can tell you. It can also be hard as hell to scrape off all of the paraphernalia you use to smoke it.

It’s pretty gross to allow the brownish, rather stinky resin residue left over from smoking or dabbing in your bongs, pipes, mouthpieces, or dab rigs, and it’s all too easy to get the sticky part of the sticky icky on surfaces too—which is why your canna tools, no matter their application, need to be cleaned regularly. So let’s make it easier with some tips.

Alcohol is your friend

Good ol’, basic rubbing alcohol is the number one weed gloop cleaner. It’s available in abundant supply, and it is safe for use on skin and most surfaces, provided you avoid sparking up until it has evaporated. Alcohol cleans so well that you can even “reclaim” that resin into something you can consume—just let the alcohol evaporate completely and you can add what your scraped off to a bowl, joint, or even food.


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