THE ORIGINAL BC CHILLUM

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Economic Hardship Means You've Got to Get High Using the Smallest Amount Possible!

First, a passage from Half-Baked:

Willie Nelson: Man, I remember when a dime bag cost a dime. You know what I mean? You know how much condoms cost back in them days?

Thurgood: How much?

Willie Nelson: I don't know. We never used them.

In these economically lean times, we at BC Chillum are not recommending that you cut birth control out of the budget. We aren't here to tell you how to make love to your lady.

But what we can help you with, is getting high using just a pinch of weed.

While grams can go into joints n' blunts, and you gotta pack a bong tight to get the mileage, with a gravity bong and a standard weed grinder, all you need is a pinch of ground-up weed (to get a good burn), only about as much as will fit on the face of a dime, to fly to the moon.

And to further assist our fellow Americans in staying mellow in these trying times, we are offering a limited time special:

2 BC Chillums for $15 (not including shipping). That's one for you and one for your best stoner friend, or one for home and one for the office. Regardless how you split them, there's no more efficient and powerful way to smoke than with a gravity bong powered by 2008 Cannabis Cup winner, BC Chillum. To buy, click this link:

It's 420 Somewhere In the World Special!

Somewhere in the world it's 420 and our brothers and sisters are out there partaking in God's natural goods so here at BC Chillum, we wanna give you something special.

For the rest of September, if you write us some props on one of the cannabis message boards (ie Grasscity) and get at least 1 comment, forward that thread to us and we'll send you a link for a $6 BC Chillum (before shipping. Regular price $10). Send to bcchillum@gmail.com.

Here's the Grass City forum link:

http://forum.grasscity.com/

Help us spread the word!

WEBSITE IS DOWN!

Our website is experiencing technical difficulties. It's gone 'tard on us.

In the meantime, if you're trying to buy a BC Chillum, you can use the Paypal links on this page.

We were sold out for a week but are stocked up again so if you order early enough in the day, we'll even ship out same day.

Lastly, check out the April issue of High Times covering Cannabis Cup and read about our win for best new product with Barney's Farm. Conserve your weed. Get high as fuck. Nothing gets you as blasted on so little as a good ol' gravity bong. We were ecstatic to have proliferated our message at the Cup. Now we do our best to help Americans tough out the economy while not having to sacrifice their relationship with the sacred green.

MAILBAG

RT writes:

How can I get a glass gravity bong?

*****

Hey RT,
We're working on it. We have a few wine bottles that we used as displays at Cannabis Cup in the US. If you want a BC Chillum + wine bottle deal, you can get both for $16 + shipping. But you'll have to email us at info_us@bucketchillum.com for more info.

Peace,
BC

MAILBAG

Dan G. writes:

Hey guys, I met you guys at Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam last November and brought back one of your chillums because you told me I'd be the life of any party and it would save me a lot of money on weed. I've been taking it to parties and making gravity bongs out of gatorade jugs and Coke 2 L's in the sink, and it's been getting everyone wasted, but it still hasn't gotten me laid! You're a liar. I'll give you this. I grind up the weed first so I get a good burn and I'm using probably less than half of what I usually put in a bong or vaporizer and it gets me just as high if not higher, so it's saving me a lot of money on weed. Plus, my dealer's a dick so the fewer times I gotta meet up with him, the better. I wanna get a coupl more for my friends. You got a deal for me?

Dan

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Well, Dan, I'm sorry your smoke out skillz haven't gotten you laid. I promised you the BC Chillum would definitely make you the center of every party, but as for pimp skillz, just remember...girls like guys who are nice, good listeners, have great senses of humor...and giant penises. Good luck!

I don't have a deal on a couple of Chillums, but we do have wholesale pricing starting at 10. If you've got a bunch of stoner birthdays coming up, or if you want to resell to your local stoner community, email me at info_us@bucketchillum.com and I'll give you the 411 about pricing.

Peace,
BC

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If you have any questions, or own a BC Chillum and want to tell us about your crazy experiences or send pictures of the coolest, craziest gravity bongs you've made with the BC Chillum, email us at info_us@bucketchillum.com

BC Chillum's Back In Stock!

We were sold out on the US side for a couple of weeks but we just got the Original BC Chillum back in stock so pick them up now before we run out again!

Also, check out the write-up on BC Chillum in the next issue of High Times, out in April for our Cannabis Cup win for Best New Product.

In honor of that issue, we have a sale going on, dropping the price of the BC Chillum from $12 to $10. Sale ends when the Cannabis Cup Issue of High Times comes off the shelf.

Order here with Paypal:

www.bucketchillum.com

High Humor

If you're high and want something to laugh at, visit Julia's He Looks Like Game:

http://www.helookslike.blogspot.com/

Glass Gravity Bongs

I've gotten several emails from people asking where they can purchase glass gravity bongs. We'll have them for sale on the website next month so stay tuned!

Cannabis Cup 2008 Winner's List:

http://hightimes.com/entertainment/ht_admin/4851

Thanks to poster Lightsfan for informing the readers of High Times about us and the kind words!

Lightsfan:

Hey Bro,The B.C. Chillum is A metal pipe that runs through A rubber cone shaped stopper.It fits into the mouth of any bottle & has A bowl on top.It makes any bottle into A gravity bong.Cut the bottom off of A bottle,sink it into another container of water,plug in the chillum & light the bowl as you gently lift.The draining water pulls smoke into the bottle,once full remove the chillum and push the bottle down,inhaling all the smoke inside.A great take on an old idea.I got one & voted 4 it too! I took A blast of Barneys Utopia Haze through it & saw stars during the Cup!!!!!..Also the asian/american girl who sold it to me was one of the coolest people @ the cup & A great salesperson!Great job & congrats on the win!!

And thanks for OGJedi's plug!

OGJedi:

My friend bought a BC Chillum at the cup. We tried it using a gatorade jug in the sink and a pinch of weed each and that shit had me layed out! Emailed their website and the said its $12 plus shipping. I ordered a couple and am going to find the biggest bottle I can and do it out of the bathtub.

BC Chillum featured!

Here's a Youtube video from the Stone Raiders taking a hit from the Original BC Chillum at Cannabis Cup 2008:

BC Chillum is on facebook! We've uploaded some pictures to Facebook. If you recognize yourself, tag yourself and if we smoked you out, add us as a friend! Just search: BC Chillum.

WE HAVE PICTURES OF YOU!

If you came by the BC Chillum booth at Cannabis Cup and got blasted and we took a picture of you, please check back in the upcoming days to see you in all your glory. We will be starting a facebook page so you can tag yourself as well. Stay tuned!

The Original BC Chillum Ties for 1st for Best New Product!

Day 3

Biggest sales day. Felt like we were on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange at some points because everyone was buying BC Chillums, especially Americans to take home. It's definitely the easiest thing to take back to the states.


You just unscrew the bowl and the butt piece at the bottom and keep them in one part of your bag or your carryon, and the rest in your check-in. People were excited especially when we told them in the summer months, if you go boating or hang out by the pool, just buy the biggest jug you can, like the giant juice things you get at Costco or Sam's Club, and pull hits out of a swimming pool. This alone can give you the BEST 4th of July party.

The best thing was being challenged by people when they didn't believe that not only were we going to get them fucked, we were going to do it on less weed than you would put into a pipe or bong. There were so many seasoned smokers who would respond to us when we told them that this tiny pinch of weed is going to get them blasted because of the Chillum: "I've been smokin' weed for 25 years. Nothing gets me." We would look at them and say, yeah right. Because 5 minutes later, they would stumble by and give us a wobbly thumbs up if they weren't sprawled out on the couches below us. That is the power of the BC Chillum gravity bong. It just doesn't waste any weed because all of it gets pulled into the container and all of it goes right into your lungs like a shotgun.

In the afternoon........Catastrophe. Julia shotguns half a pure joint of Utopia Haze and takes herself out of the game for a few hours.

It started with a judge from Ontario asking if the BC Chillum can be used with joints. David and Julia confer and believe that yes, it should be possible by taking off the bowl and sticking a joint directly into the chillum. While it's quiet, Julia asks for the joint that Eduardo from Team Barney's Farm is smoking and experiments.


We stuck the joint, roach in first while it was lit, then pulled the bottle up. The joint incinerated in about 4 seconds (see above) leaving a tower of ashes. Meanwhile, the bottle filled with smoke that looked as creamy and solid a milk. Evil, evil milk. A crowd had formed to watch and we tried to get people to do it, but even the tough guys had enough good sense to know this would be some powerful shit. So Julia takes it upon herself to finish the experiment. She only gets abouty a quarter of the hit because it's just too thick. She goes into an immediate coughing spell with tears down her face, and pain in her chest that would last for a good 10 minutes. Things are fine for like 2 minutes. And then she sits down and can't stand up for the next 3 hours, orbiting somewhere in space. She hadn't felt this blasted since one of the first time she got high and hallucinated she was in Braveheart! It was a pretty mindblowing trip.

David spends much time reassuring her while she sits silently and stares, doe-eyed. Amount of work being done in the BC Chillum booth severely nose-dives. Julia is not aware of this time lapse, only that her feet feel like she's wearing moon boots and only that Utopia Haze, when shotgunned through a BC Chillum is no fucking joke. The first clue should have been when the smoke inside the jug looked like a meal.

Later, she sees one of their previous victims, a big black dude from NYC that the Barney's shuttle driver had brought right over because the guy wasn't convinced anything could get him as high as this guy was claiming. He was standing and watching the concert looking dazed. Julia walks over and asks him how he's feeling. It's been a good 4 hours since he took his hit. He shakes his head and says, "That was somethin' else." Julia tells him that she just shotgunned a joint and couldn't stand up for hours. He laughs and says that he's been standing because he couldn't sit down! They commiserate for a bit about how one of the effects is that your feet feel like your walking through mud but you do get a high that just gets keeps lifting you until you float around. The dude was pretty impressed.

The show ends and after a quick meal, Team BC Chillum heads down to the DNA Party featuring Dilated Peoples, a sick party with hash popcorn that was a great time. We get hugs from people who'd done hits that day, telling us we gave them one hell of a time. It makes us happy to know we did our jobs.

Day 2

The bin was leaking so we weren't able to pull from the Big Baby. We had a great day of meeting people and lining up our "victims" on the couches below us. I remember one big dude in dreads that David gave a bong hit to. I saw him on the couch an hour later looking blaaaasted. He didn't even look conscious of the room. I went back to the booth and told David one of his boys was on the couch completely spaced. He laughed and said the guy had been noticeably happier after he took a hit. Utopia Haze is getting a lot of good buzz.

We are finding ourselves making out too much in the afternoons when they put music on.

It's highly unprofessional.

The Greenhouse's party was that night and we decided to crash it. We wanted to go all commando with a travel gravity bong and smoked people out, but we didn't want to piss off the Greenhouse folks by promoting Barney's weed at their party. Personally, I thought...what's the worst that could happen. We get thrown out? David said he's never been thrown out of anywhere so suddenly, it felt like the best idea in the world to go hijack the party. Well, I'd taken a hit of that Utopia Haze through the BC Chillum before I left, so it was a while before the action theme music in my head faded out and whatever hallucination I was in that involved me as some kind of Lone Asian Female A-Team had dissipated. We did walk in and smoke some people out. Some people we recognized so we hung out with them, other people we just offered it to with weed we'd brought. I saw this one guy I remember doing a hit for yesterday. He saw me coming and says, "That gravity bong really messed me up yesterday." Really?, I asked. "Yeah, it totally messed my shit up."

Ky-mani Marley was awesome. Any guy who can passionately sing about fucking like animals tonight and sell it to both men and women has got the magic. We headed up to the balcony, had a smoke out and met a few people who had heard of the BC Chillum but hadn't tried it. People laugh and ask me if I hate my job, smoking people out all day. I tell them the worst part is having to twist people's arms to do it.

Cannabis Cup 2008

Day 1

Team BC Chillum took the Barney's shuttle to the Powerzone and took to flyering the place while Barney's got their booth set up. Barney's Farm, consistent winner of weed/hash categories, has the largest both set up in a prime location on a stage. We would be pulling buckets for them using their sativa entry, Utopia Haze, a strain from Brazil that had the Amsterdam underground buzzing for months. Barney's is known for some killer weed, and supposedly this was the best strain they'd ever had. We were really excited.

Show started at 3 but it took us a bit longer to get the booth set up so we took to passing out flyers in the line. A lot of people were excited. Gravity bongs are old school. It's the shit we used to make in college back in the day, McGyvering crazy tools to get high. I remember it was a joke in college how I couldn't get high, so people were always offering me weed telling me, this is the shit. All I would get is a sore throat. When someone showed me how to build a gravity bong with a standard head shop bowl and a gatorade bottle, it was like a life-changing moment--there was my life before getting high, and there was my life after. I'm convinced the world would be a better place if everyone could get high at least once in their life so they could understand that it's possible to see things from a different perspective.

The show started and immediately we had a big crowd around us. We pulled bongs non-stop and just a pinch of weed, we had seasoned smokers splayed out on the couches below us, their minds in a completely other place.

A gravity bong high is something completely different from a pipe, bong, joint or vaporizer high. You only need a pinch of weed, less than what you would put in a pipe or a joint, and since 100% of the smoke gets pulled into the bottle and you're using water pressure to stream the smoke at your mouth while you inhale instead of suck, it's a more natural way to take in the smoke. Because you're more relaxed by inhaling instead of sucking, it hits your longs in a less forceful way and travels right to your head. The high starts out strong, but then you get a sensation of being lifted for about 20 minutes. Then you float for a few hours somewhere between the moon and infinity. I'm never more curious, creative, open, joyous than when I'm floating after a gravity bong hit. It doesn't hit my body as harshly as a joint or a pipe, but it hits stronger, cleaner and more distinctly than a vaporizer or bong.

We've been pulling them out of a giant glass Jack Daniels jug with the bottom cut off (diamond saw then polished), but I do compare the high to a classy whiskey (my choice, Highland Park 21 year). It starts off intense and smoky...but just as you feel like you're being overwhelmed, it's a smooth, light, cheerful finish.

People loved the taste of the weed and how smooth and distinct the gravity bong hit was. We didn't sell as many as we'd hoped, but it was just the first day and it was great to just get people to try it out and get high.

We loved that so many people were excited to see us, saying that they used to make something like this back in the day. People would get really excited sharing the different ways they would construct gravity bongs. I think every smoker has a nostalgic place in their hearts for GB's if they've ever done them before.

BC Chillum is the brainchild of David and Julia conceived over the juicy months of 2008 in which a whirlwind intercontinental romance turned into the birth of a smoking tool that brings their favorite old school smoking method to the masses. The product of much passionate headbutting, emphatic table slapping and merry making-up resulted in the BC Chillum, unveiled at Cannabis Cup 2008 in Amsterdam, in partnership with Barney's Farm. Pulling gravity bongs using Barney's Best Sativa entry, Utopia Haze, the BC Chillum team set out with only one objective -- to get people high and happy.

This is their story.