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 Here’s the deal: you will need to clear up after your cannabis dab every single time. I know it can be a pain to keep up with, but this is the only proven way to keep the chazz away.

 You should keep a soft and absorbent cleaning tool near your dab rig. After you finish your dab, grab a cleaning tool like a cotton swab and remove the excess melted concentrate from the bottom of your quartz banger.

 You will simply need to soak your rig, chazzed nail, and possibly the carb cab and dab tool entirely in the rubbing alcohol. You will want to keep them soaking for a few hours up to an entire day, depending on the level of chazzing that you are dealing with.

 But still, sometimes, the chazzed nail may not be able to completely dissolve away after soaking it in pure rubbing alcohol. Here are some additional items that you may want handy to help with spiffing up your rig setup:

 Taking a high-temperature dab can be a rush. The effects hit fast, and there may be some intense coughing, but you ultimately leave feeling pretty high. However, lighting up the banger until it glows red is not great for your dab extracts or lungs.

 Quartz bangers are known for their ability to retain longer than a titanium nail could. Low-temp dabs can reduce the risk of burning your hands or lungs and decrease the chances of the banger becoming chazzed because no one likes that!

 Attempt to keep your low-temperature dabs to around 500 to 650 degrees Fahrenheit. You can achieve this low temperature by using an electronic nail (eNail) or by timing your heat manually and experimenting with different cooldown times to find the perfect temperature for your needs.

 Not only does it look gross, but a chazzed nail or banger will degrade the flavor and significantly reduce the quality of the dabs. This can also lead to permanently damaging your banger in the long run.

 If you’re too comfortable with a chazzed-up banger, this is your sign to make a change. You will want to get it clean, keep it clean, and move forward with the understanding that a clean banger is a happy banger! It’s better for the quality of your high and the long-term impact on your lungs.

 A few different elements will help you prevent chazzed bangers. You will want to clean your banger routinely with a cotton swab after each use and before the banger can cool down and make the material sticky.

 Additional remedies that will help remove chazz include coarse salt, a scraper, and zip-lock bags. Use these for a deep soak lasting anywhere from 3 hours to a full day. If your banger is heavily chazzed, you might need to repeat the deep cleaning process a couple of times.

 If you are looking to keep your quartz bangers from turning black, be sure to develop a routine of taking a cotton swab (possibly dipped in rubbing alcohol) and swirling it around instead of your banger, collecting the leftover cannabis concentrate.

 You will want to do regular deep cleans if you are a regular dabber. These deep cleans should involve isopropyl alcohol, coarse salt, and a ziplock bag to soak the banger anywhere from three hours to a whole day.

 Isopropyl alcohol is one of the most common and popular liquids used to clean a banger properly. If you want to remove deep burns or chazzed material, cleaning a banger can take a few hours up to an entire day.

 It’s 4 pm. I just woke up from a nap on the couch. My neck is killing me, and my joints aren’t too happy either. I keep yawning, and I’m beyond grumpy. Between the grogginess, discomfort, and general feeling that something’s wrong, it’s time to smoke.

 But the experiment needs a control, so I put on my headphones and connect them to my phone before unfurling from beneath my blanket. To my surprise, I charged both my phone and headphones last night – they’re powered up and ready for action.

 An immediate smile crosses my face, even though the first song, Disease, has been out for a while at this point. I travel back in time to 2008’s The Fame, except now I’m a gay adult and not a gay kid.

 Oh wow. Garden of Eden is playing. Harmonies, heavy synth, late 2000s/early 2010s “c’mon”s in the background. I’m careful about not dabbing too much because it’s easy for me to skip the Buzzed step of the ladder accidentally.

 Perfect Celebrity is an interesting song to listen to while staying in the Buzzed territory. I feel a bit more connected to the music in this state, and I see why some people like to stay at this level of intoxication.

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 Vanish Into You starts and as much as I would love to relish in the subtle but enjoyable Buzzed state, the song lulls me to start thinking about the dab rig again. As I write this, I smile widely at the simple and comforting drum beat that appears in so many pop songs (and I mean that in a good way).

 I’m really nodding with the music for the first time, like not just because it’s good, but because I’m High. I look outside my window and see all the cars and pedestrians. My partner put on a cute jacket because I opened the window a few minutes ago, and I keep looking up and smiling at them.

 Right, my timing. LoveDrug is song 8 out of 14, and I’m on step 3 out of 7 of my ladder. Nearly perfect if you turn them into ratios (it took me a while to think of that word.) I hope this all makes sense later.

 Okay, now I’m putting my laptop down for real and getting Stoned. Finally. And this song is staying on repeat- I’m not ready to move on from it yet. At this point, I’ve turned the volume up at least four times even though I try to be careful about protecting my hearing. This is inner child healing and it gets a pass.

 It takes a bit of time to get stoned, mostly because I’m being careful to pause and evaluate how I’m feeling before taking more dabs. It’s a really important skill for cannabis users- and all drug users- to have. This scale is part of what helps me keep track of how I’m feeling.

 How Bad Do U Want Me is on its last chorus by the time I can power through my new Stoned state and finish this sentence. Anyway, it was really good and makes me excited for the youngins to experience Gaga at her prime. The song deserves more attention than I’m giving it. There’s a lot to be said about subtle sexual messaging in music, specifically the bad girl trope. I think this song is probably going to be one of the standouts of the album.

 Don’t Call Tonight is playing now, and I’m thinking about how empowering it feels to listen to. I feel like Gaga is singing at all my exes for me. (I’m pausing the music so I can flesh out this thought.)

 The power behind her voice when she sings the lyric “Don’t call tonight!” is so palpable. It’s not a woe-is-me breakup song, although those are much needed. She’s like, you messed up, you missed your chance, leave me alone because I have better things to do. Don’t call tonight!

 The next song is Shadow Of A Man, and I’m interested in seeing how it fits into the theme of the last two songs, specifically. Oh, this is a bop. “I can’t get enough.” OH, the chorus. Wow. This is going on repeat, and I’m getting Stoney Balogne. I hope I can better express how exciting this song is once I’m vibing even harder.

 Also, my pain went away a while ago. It’s almost like weed is both medicine and a drug. Really cool stuff. And I noticed that the last song features Bruno Mars. I have a visceral bodily reaction of doubt, but I trust Gaga.

 I switch from live resin to rosin this time when I load my dab rig, because now that we’re getting higher up the scale it’s a better bang for your buck. Also because, why not? I know I’ve reached Stoney Balogne pretty easily, because I started thinking to myself, “Wait, which level am I trying to reach right now?” and I feel like that’s indication enough.

 I spent a lot of time, Stoned listening to Shadow of a Man on repeat while reading the lyrics, and I’ve decided that Gaga may have accidentally written a transmasc anthem. At least as a trans man, the song speaks to me in that way. I mean, pretty much every verse has lyrics I could point to, but for ease, I’ll just direct you to the chorus:

 This is NOT to imply that trans men are the “shadow of a man”. In my interpretation, this song can be about a man realizing he’s trans and deciding he’s ready to start living as himself (“I’m about to be there, I’m about to be there/ Watch me, I swear.”)

 Coming into manhood can be incredibly complicated and confusing. We spend our whole lives receiving messages about gender, and in the process of stepping into yourself you have to learn how you personally experience…this is hard to explain while Stoney Balogne. I have to pause the music to focus.

 We spend our whole lives getting messages about what it means to be a man, so then when you’re first out it’s really easy to feel like you’re “in the shadow of a man” because you’re figuring out how the heck to be a man and how to fit in with those around you in this new way. Eventually, you realize it doesn’t matter and there’s no right way to be a man, and the shadow feeling goes away over time.

 I know that Gaga wrote the song as a commentary on power dynamics between genders, specifically how women are capable of doing amazing things regardless of the men who put them in the shadows. I think it’s beautiful that the wording unintentionally also lends itself to the transmasc experience, especially because Gaga has had the trans community’s back since day 1. (To be transparent, I added this paragraph after I sobered up a bit because I wanted to do the topic better justice.)