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Pipes
Smoking marijuana or hash with a pipe is the easiest and fastest way to get high. There are wide varieties of pipes, they mainly differ in material, size and smoke-treatment. More...Although smoking a bong or waterpipe is not the simplest way to get high, there is a health benefit smoking them. Again they mainly differ in material, size and smoke treatment. A bong simply is a waterpipe without the hoses and a waterpipe, of course, is a bong with the hoses. More...
Using a pipe is very easy. Sometimes you need to use a screen before putting your marijuana or hash in it. This depends on the kind of pipe you're using. Some pipes even have integrated screens. Screens are thin steel or
copper nettings so you won't get any stuff in your mouth. You can get different sizes. Then the last thing you need to do is to put in the marijuana or hash and light it. Take a good puff and keep it in your lungs for a while. Repeat a few times till the stuff has burned. The last thing is to clean the pipe and relax. You have to keep the cleaning in mind when buying your own pipe.
The Bong is a very old way of smoking cannabis. It is made of a 'chillum'(1), a small (usually metal) tube with a pipe head and the other end stuck in the main body (2). The end is under the water surface to filter the smoke through the water as well as cool it. Recent data suggests however that it doesn't filter out the carcinogens as well as is commonly believed (with its tar/THC ratio way above that of a joint, but also far below that of a vaporizer), but obviously, using a bong is still much healthier than not filtering the smoke at all. The classical shape is a sphere with a tube sticking on it, but you can get them just about any shape (ranging from a pistol to penis shape; you can even get small "pocket bongs". They are mainly made of glass, acrylic or metal, and each of those materials has it's own advantages and disadvantages. Glass is easy to keep clean, and you can use almost any cleaning substance on them without having to 
fear that they'll melt. They also break rather easily and are thus difficult to transport. The chillum in Glass bongs is frequently made of glass as well, whereas normally it is made out of metal. Acrylic ones are generally speaking a bit cheaper, but depending on the quality, their color can get cloudy, which usually doesn't look too nice. Most of the cleaning fluids normally used to get rid of the tar patches that form inside, will also dissolve the acrylic, so beware what you use. They are, however, perfect for transporting in a backpack or alike, since they are almost unbreakable. The chillum is in almost 100% of the cases made out of metal. Finally there are metal bongs, which are usually quite expensive, but unless they get run over by a truck, they'll last you a lifetime. Similar to glass, they are easy to keep clean (sometimes they get a special coating, so that you can simply wipe of the tar), nothing will break them, and generally they are the best. Sometimes the metal gives the smoke a rather odd taste however, which some people dislike.