Hotboxing

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Hotboxing , also known as hot boxing , describes smoking cannabis in a closed, small room such as a car, a storage room, a telephone booth or a tent. It is said to cause a more intense intoxication by preventing the exhaled air containing THC from escaping. Under certain circumstances, hotboxing increases the risk of the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases, since the concentration of pathogens increases with a reduced air circulation.

The word comes from the United States .

Web links

• Urban Dictionary : Hotboxing .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tuberculosis Outbreak in Marijuana Users, Seattle, Washington, 2004 ( Memento from December 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 181 kB)