Legal Smoking Buds

When a society place legal restrictions against certain substances, its citizens are left with two alternatives. The first is to ignore the legalities involved and continue in the production, trade, and usage of the illegal substance. This option, though potentially profitable and alluring, also offers clear downsides, especially when the  [...]

Herbal Alternatives to Tobacco

Unlike the our neighbors to the East, it has taken us here in the Western Hemisphere a long time to officially recognize the benefits of herbal alternatives. So overwhelming is our preference and bias toward expensive physicians and pharmaceuticals that we, as a nation, tend to overlook the natural, affordable, [...]

Potent Smoking Herbs

Our customers want be sure that they are purchasing blends or extracts of potent smoking herbs that will have a real effect as well as a great taste and smell. No one wants to waste time wondering if they are experiencing a placebo effect, especially if they are trying out [...]

Sweet Smoking Herbs

If you've ever commented on the merits of one brand of cigar or cigarette over another, you know that the sensory effect of an herbal smoke isn't the only thing that matters--- taste and smell are important too! The sensory experience of smoking a herb or blend is something [...]

Mood Enhancers

These days, it is becoming more and more common to find products which claim to be mood enhancers.  There are now wide varieties of herbal supplements and teas as well as intense pharmaceutical medications which are meant to enhance the mood.  Fortunately, people wanting to enhance their mood naturally and [...]

Tobacco Alternatives

Tobacco is a multi-billion dollar a year industry, and not only does it kill about 5,000,000 people each and every year, there are few products that offer pleasant, satisfying, and tasty tobacco alternatives. We at Sweet Smoke Herbs want to change all that, and have developed a line of herbal [...]

Smoking Hops

You may know hops as the bitter flavoring agent in beer, in which it’s combined with alcohol from fermented grains to produce sedative effects and a mellow buzz. However, smoking hops is also becoming popular among herbal connoisseurs who prize this bitter herb for its ability to counteract insomnia and [...]

Passionflower

Passionflower refers to several species of related flowering plants originally native to North and South America. Passionflower species are now found on every continent except Africa and Antarctica. Passionflower is farmed commercially in tropical countries for its fruit, a popular ingredient in tropical drink blends and recipes; the flower itself [...]

Herbal Buds: An Overview

When one refers to herbal buds, there is a vast range of products that come to mind. Unfortunately, the most common ones offered for sale in various shops and on the internet, are products of slick marketing tactics and saturation of the market. Until now, the few companies that provided [...]

Herbs For Smoking

There are thousands of herbs available on the market today, but only a few are suitable herbs for smoking. Here are Sweet Smoke Herbs, we have carefully chosen the herbs that have either a long history of use as smoking herbs, or newly discovered ones that we have found particularly [...]

Legal Incense

An incense is a blend of herbs and spices that is meant to be burned to release aromatic smoke into the environment rather than directly into a user’s body. The mood-altering and medicinal effects of incense can be as profound and immediate as a smoking blend, but with so [...]

Tobacco Alternatives for Pipes

Pipe smokers are sometimes fond of claiming that tobacco is less harmful to the body when smoked from a pipe compared to cigarettes or chewing tobacco. Unfortunately, this is something of an urban legend, but the good news is that there are many tobacco alternatives for pipes now available, including [...]

Dangers of Smoking

The dangers of smoking are far too many to list here, partially because this list includes more diseases and harmful effects on the body that most would believe. We have provided some links to the most useful pages of information we have found, and encourage you to look to these [...]

Herbal Smoking Blends

It is well known that smoking tobacco causes a host of illnesses and that nicotine is incredibly addictive. With corporatized tobacco, you never know exactly it is you’re smoking. But there are alternatives. Herbal smoking blends, while not free from all the dangers of smoking, offer you a choice of [...]

Klip Dagga Effects

Klip dagga (Leonotis neptifolia) is a species of wild dagga plant that contains the highest concentration of active leonurine, making klip dagga effects the most reliable and potent of any wild dagga species. Klip dagga is related to wild dagga (Leonotis leonurus), often called lion’s tail for the shape of [...]

Blue Lotus Resin

Blue lotus resin is a heavily concentrated form of the blue lotus flower the ancient Egyptians used both ritually and recreationally to induce states of trance and ecstasy. Blue lotus resin is so concentrated that one gram of this black, slightly sweet resin is equivalent in potency and effects to [...]

Illness Caused by Smoking

Smoking has more than 50 ways of making life a misery through illness and more than 20 ways of killing you. In general, smokers endure poorer health than non-smokers. It has been estimated that, in England, 364,000 patients are admitted to NHS hospitals each year due to diseases caused by [...]

Herbal Smokes

We are proud to offer our complete line of six herbal smokes for your enjoyment. Here at Sweet Smoke Herbs, a small company that is passionate about offering the highest quality herbal smoking products at the lowest prices; we start with only the best ingredients Mother Nature has to offer. [...]

Smoking Galangal

You may know galangal as a popular cooking spice that is heavily used in Thailand, Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia. However the smoking galangal we’re going to talk about is not the cooking spice, but a related variant with a history of use in Southeast Asia and the [...]

Nicotine

At Sweet Smoke Herbs, we strive to provide you with plentiful information about the non-addictive herbal alternatives to tobacco and its active ingredient, nicotine. If you’re trying to quit smoking, or even if you’ve never smoked tobacco due to the negative press about the risk to your health and [...]

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Help Quit Smoking

Many are looking for ways to help quit smoking. Tobacco smoking is an addiction which, despite endless research documenting the hundreds of negative health effects smoking causes, still plagues quite a large portion of the population. Not only does smoking tobacco itself produce a multitude of undesirable effects on the [...]

K2 Spice Blend

K2 is often sold as an herbal incense, natural smoking blend, or natural high.  However, although the plants that are used as a base for the JWH-018 spray are natural, the active chemical itself is completely synthetic.  We are not into anything synthetic in any of our all-natural smoking blends [...]

Can You Smoke Catnip?

At Sweet Smoke Herbs we give our customers a reliable list of the ingredients in our smoking blends, and sometimes this means discerning customers encounter ingredients for human consumption that they didn’t expect. Take catnip: you might encounter this herb in different calming blends and think, “Wait--- can you smoke [...]

Smoking Thyme

You probably know thyme as a common kitchen spice often used to flavor Mediterranean cuisine alongside rosemary, oregano, and other fragrant and flavorful herbs. What you might not know is that thyme also has documented medicinal effects: smoking thyme can grant feelings of calm and mental clarity to users, and[...]

Do Legal Buds Work?

In recent years it has become very common to see products known as "legal buds" being sold in specialty stores and online shops.  These legal buds are often attractively packaged and promise a satisfying and relaxing smoke with potent effects. However, one of the first question that any curious consumer [...]

Legal Hydro Buds

Be careful of the term "hydro" when used to describe legal hydro buds. All too often, companies will simply include the word on packaging without any basis for actually using it. Anxious to sell whatever they can, however they can, and to whomever they can, these companies dress inferior product  [...]

Do Legal Buds Get You High?

Depending on the kind of bud, or the herbs used in an herbal blend, the effects of smoking Legal Buds have included reports of relaxation, euphoria, a sense of heightened awareness, an increase in imagination and inducement of hallucinations.  We certainly cannot speak for any of the legal buds you  [...]

Effects Of Legal Buds

The effects of legal buds, depending on the strain and blend, have been reported to include deep relaxation, heightened spiritual awareness, mental clarity and acuity, intensified imagination, refined abilities to focus, feelings of euphoria, dream enhancement and intensification, and the potential for vision induction.  [...]

Wild Dagga 50x Experience

Wild dagga is a herbal smoke that offers a light, clear-headed but undeniably potent effect. We sell this smoking herb in a 50x enhanced extract form. If you’re interested in what a wild dagga 50x experience might be like, we’ve collected a summary below of what other dagga explorers have [...]

Native American Smoking Herbs

The medicinal pharmacopoeia of the Americas introduced many previously unknown healing herbs into Western medicine, including black cohosh, sarsaparilla, capsicum, and goldenseal. Native American smoking herbs and herbal teas have seen thousands of years of use as remedies for ailments of the body, mind and spirit. All of these aspects [...]

Legal Exotic Buds

Ah, the allure of the exotic! Those of us in the West have a long history of fantasizing about the exotic customs, colors, foods, dress, and customs of our neighbors abroad. So it should come as little surprise that when looking for legal smoking alternatives, savvy customers set their sights [...]

Legal Herbal Smoking Blends

Today, more and more people are putting their addictive, profit-motivated cigarettes down in favor of alternative smoking blends. Likewise, there are more legal, herbal smoking alternatives available today than ever before. Why herbal? This answer finds a fascinating illustration in the common (and, if you ask us, despicable) practices [...]

Alternatives to Chewing Tobacco

As the health risks associated with using chewing tobacco (also called “smokeless tobacco”) have emerged into the public eye, more and more people are searching out alternatives to chewing tobacco. Even if you don’t smoke it, consuming tobacco in the form of a plug, quid, or any of the designed [...]

Mugwort Smoking

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a plant species endemic to Northern Europe, Asia and Alaska and naturalized in North America and has long been used for treating gastric and skin disorders, as a nerve tonic, and as a popular cooking additive. Mugwort smoking used to be popular among sailors looking for [...]

Baybean

Baybean is the common name for Canavalia maritima, a legume endemic to many tropical and subtropical regions of the Western Hemisphere. The Canavalia genus contains about 70 to 75 species of tropical flowering vines which produce large light green beans. Peoples indigenous to Mexico and the Hawaiian Islands have grown  [...]

Blue Lotus

The common name blue lotus can refer to any of several water lily species found in Africa, Australia and Mesoamerica, including Nymphaea caerula, Nymphaea nouchali, and Nelumbo nucifera. Blue lotus may also be called blue lily, white lotus, or--- perhaps most telling, as far as its historical use goes--- sacred [...]

Blue Lotus Full Spectrum

When you look at the line of enhanced smoking herbs on our site, you may notice that we offer a blue lotus full spectrum extract among them. As a discerning customer, you may be asking yourself, “What is a full spectrum extract, anyway?” In herbal medicine, the term full spectrum [...]

Smokable Herbs

Almost any of the edible plants we use in dried form are also smokable herbs. Do a modest search online and you’ll come up with folk recipes for smoking blends involving kitchen spices like cinnamon and oregano, and tea herbs like chamomile and valerian. However, not all of the herbs [...]

Marihuanilla

Marihuanilla (Leonurus sibericus) is a flowering shrub in the Leonurus genus and is related to two other more well-known smoking herbs, wild dagga (Leonotis leonurus) and klip dagga (Leonotis neptifolia). The marihuanilla shrub can reach 2 meters (~7 feet) in height, and commonly grows to more than a meter [...]

Shaman Herbal Smoke

You may notice as you peruse our site that one of our herbal blends is a shaman herbal smoke sourced from a shaman in Nepal. The practice of shamanism runs deep in Nepal, where it has probably been practiced longer than either Hinduism or Buddhism. While the other two philosophies [...]

Euphoric Herbs

Well-heeled connoisseurs of herbal alternatives to tobacco will be quite familiar with high-profile euphoric herbs like wild dagga, blue lotus, and damiana.  Euphoric herbs like these, often sourced from exotic locales and with centuries of documented use behind them, are well-respected in the herbal alternative community for [...]

Smoking Damiana

Damiana (Turnera diffusa) is a flowering shrub with small yellow flowers and a woody stem that grows wild in Mexico, Central America, and highland South America. Traditionally used as a nerve tonic, aphrodisiac and reproductive herb, smoking damiana has also become popular among the North American herbal smoke community. Its [...]

What to Smoke Instead of Tobacco

If you’re a newcomer to Sweet Smoke Herbs, chances are you were drawn to our site because you’re wondering what to smoke instead of tobacco as part of a desire to quit or smoke less tobacco. While the medical community is quick to cast nicotine replacement therapy as the main [...]

 Gotu Kola

Gotu kola (Centella asiatica) is one of many herbal supplements coming out of Asia that are gaining in popular use for their ability to clear the mind, improve concentration, and boost overall energy levels. As well as having broad-spectrum anti-inflammatory action, gotu kola is of especial interest to [...]

Jasmine Flowers

The jasmine plant is a climbing vine that grows in subtropical regions of Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Africa. Jasmine flowers have a long history of use throughout Europe and Asia, where people have prized the large white flower for its beautiful appearance, sweet scent, and wide-ranging medicinal properties. Today [...]

Alternatives to Smoking

The rate of tobacco consumption in North America has been steadily decreasing as more people learn about the dangers of smoking and start to seek out alternatives to smoking that are better for their health. Smoking alternatives have become a growth industry driven by people who want to quit using [...]

California Poppy Smoke

The California poppy (Eschscholtzia californica) is a perennial flowering plant with cup-like orange blossoms. Though it belongs to the family Papaveraceae alongside the classic Asian poppy, California poppy smoke contains no habit-forming opiates, and the plant itself is entirely legal to grow and possess. In fact, the California [...]

Blue Lotus Extract Effects

Nowadays you can buy the celebrated blue lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) in almost any form, including as a whole flower, a concentrated absolute oil, or an enhanced extract. Blue lotus extract effects are similar to those produced by smoking or orally consuming the flower. However, because you’re absorbing the plant’s active [...]

Damiana Leaf Smoking

Damiana is a small shrub with yellow flowers that is native to parts of Mexico, Central and South America. Though damiana is most famous for its use as an aphrodisiac tea and relaxation aid, damiana leaf smoking is also emerging in the herbal smoke community as an excellent way to [...]

Indian Tobacco

Those of us who aren’t botanists usually refer to plants by their common names; however, relying on common names can be a pesky hindrance when you’re trying to figure out the provenance of different ingredients in a smoking blend. Take Indian tobacco, a name that comes up on more than [...]

Smoking Lavender Effects

Fresh lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) has long been in high demand in the perfume and food industries for its unique scent and its therapeutic effects on the human mind and spirit. Smoking lavender effects tend to be calming and anxiolytic,  and lavender is a frequent component of smoking and aromatherapy blends [...]

Legal Plants That Get You High

With so many well-known psychoactive plants outlawed or highly restricted, many folks are waging an increasingly desperate search for legal plants that get you high. Seeking out altered states of consciousness may be a very old part of human nature, as evidenced by the ancient use of visionary herbs [...]

Tobacco Alternative Herbs

At Sweet Smoke Herbs, we specialize in providing our customers with a wide range of single herbs and blends that they can smoke as alternatives to tobacco. Tobacco alternative herbs are smokable herbs or herbal blends that contain no tobacco or nicotine and are designed for people looking for a [...]

Marshmallow Leaf Smoke

The marshmallow plant (Althea officinalis) is a flowering perennial shrub, probably native to Mediterranean Europe, which is now grown commercially in central European countries such as Germany, Poland, and Bulgaria. Marshmallow leaf smoke tends to have a calming effect and smooth flavor, which makes it a popular base for use [...]

Herbal High

The herbal high business is an expanding one these days, with literally dozens of websites hawking tinctures, pills, and herbal smokes that they promise will rev you up and get you ready to party. For the discerning customer, it can be hard to determine which sites are on the level [...]

Lotus Flower

When you think of the lotus flower, you might picture ornamental blossoms floating in someone’s garden pond for a touch of color; or if you’re familiar with the broad world of legal psychoactive plants, you think of the famed Egyptian blue lotus flower, which thousands of people around the world [...]

Kanna

Kanna (Sceletium tortuosum) is a succulent groundcover plant that grows in southern regions of Africa. Belonging to the Mesembryanthemaceae family, kanna has been used probably since prehistoric times by African indigenous peoples as a stimulant, mood elevator, and appetite suppressant. Today, kanna is growing in popularity in the herbal health [...]

Herbal Smoking Blends Recipe

If you’re really into the world of smoking blends, you may be one of those bold people who’ve experimented with creating their own herbal smoking blends recipe, either inspired from a site like ours or out of native curiosity. If you’ve never thought about making your own herbal blends, the [...]

Wild Dagga Tea

Although we market our products as smoking herbs, at Sweet Smoke Herbs we’re also attuned to those customers who may be interested in experimenting with alternative methods of preparing and consuming some of our most popular psychoactive herbs. Take wild dagga: if you’ve never tried it before, drinking a wild [...]

Sinicuichi

Sinicuichi is the colloquial name for two species of flowering bush in the loosestrife family, Heimia salicifolia and Heima myrtifolia. Both plants are native to South America, Central America, and Mexico. Also called Shrubby Yellowcrest (due to the plant’s small yellow flowers), Sini, Elixir of the Sun, and Sun-Opener [...]