Finally smoked some. Went with a bong since that's what my friends growing up had. Still trying to figure it out though since it's been something like 23 years.
My first go at it I think I packed too big of a bowl (red biscotti), and took one huge bong rip and coughed my fucking head off. Second time I switched it up with a much smaller bowl (koko puffs) and took several hits off it and that went much better.
Speaking of the smell, holy shit is it making everything reek. I basically just put everything in the garage for now cause there's no way I want my house to smell like shit all the time. Thinking about getting a waterproof hardcase, and then some mason jars for the actual weed itself (maybe throw the bowl in one too). The smell does really give me memberberries though. Especially of concerts from my youth. But I'm also now realizing my uncle smoked a ton of weed (in fairness, he also was a junkie and did heroin and got shot in the head in DC on a drug deal gone bad; he survived and later died from cancer pretty young).
It also made it apparent just how high my tolerance is for gummies though. They definitely help with the pain, but I basically don't get much of a high at all from them. Like, at all.
I was really surprised at my wife's reaction. I figured she was pretty much judging me and really disapproving of the whole thing, but she's expressed interest in taking a gummy. And she was surprisingly supportive of me smoking it. Although she's also out of town for the week, so we'll see how she feels when she smells it (if she does, hopefully storage works).