September 15, 2021 3 min read
Ever wonder about that sticky build up that forms in your dab rig, pipe, or water bong? This leftover substance is called cannabis reclaim when it’s dealing with concentrates or resin when speaking about the residue from smoking dry herb. This byproduct is simply heated cannabis concentrates that have been recondensed. You can find cannabis reclaim solidified in the water and along the inside walls of the dab rig and banger.
If you have your rig set up and ready to go, but realize you ran out of concentrates, you may be wondering if you can smoke the cannabis reclaim that’s sitting inside your dab rig. The quick answer is yes, you can smoke cannabis reclaim, but you may want to do it only as a last resort if you’re truly out of fresh smoking material. Cannabis concentrates are vaporized instead of burned, so instead of the ashy, smelly residue from combusted dry herb, reclaim is a cleaner build up that hasn’t lost its cannabinoids and terpenes. This means that it will get you high, though it won’t be as flavorful or potent as actual dabs. To preserve as much of the compounds and flavor as possible, always use low-temp dabbing. Leftover resin from smoking cannabis flower in a pipe or water bong should never be smoked again since it has gone through combustion and will be filled with ash and other contaminants like carcinogens.
Some potheads prefer to err on the safe side and save up their cannabis reclaim to use it for homemade edibles. Reclaim has already been vaporized, so it doesn’t need to be decarbed. This allows you to skip the most time consuming step in making weed edibles and go straight to the recipe. Just remember that the potency of your reclaim and finished edibles will be very difficult to calculate, so always start out slow when testing your edibles for the first time. One thing you will know for certain is that your collected cannabis reclaim will be less potent than the original dabs.
The collection process is straightforward and takes just a few minutes to do. It’s most convenient to collect reclaim when it’s time to clean your dab rig, that way you can combine the two processes.
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Steps to collect cannabis reclaim
Once you collect all the reclaim you can from your dab rig, give it a thorough cleaning using a banger cleaner and a non-toxic bong cleaning solution so you have full-flavored dabs during your next session.
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