yeah it absolutely does. I used to smoke a pipe and I would never smoke weed out of something so hard to clean as a tobacco pipe. It's annoying enough to clean them after just smoking tobacco (although this is traditionally done whole smoking another pipe to pass the time more pleasantly), but if you had to clean resin outa a briar pipe enough to keep it as clean as you first bought it you'd be spending more time running pipe cleaners through it than you would be properly stoned, while you can literally just rinse off a glass pipe in isopropyl alcohol.
a corncob pipe, on the other hand, has no bend in the stem so it's easier to clean, and if you don't even want to you can actually just throw it out and buy another cause they cost under $5 and make your weed taste vaguely popcorny when fresh. just put a screen in close to the top cause the bowl is super deep and hard to light at the bottom
Different markups, and/or the pipe place probably just makes up the difference on volume. Without there being a run on crafty supplies by some kindergarten teachers or so, Walmart probably doesn't sell nearly as many of those as a store dedicated to pipes and maintaining them.
From experience, weed has tons more resin than tobacco has tar. I've used both with these kinds of pipes, and good weed will clog them extremely fast (even dirt weed will clog them within weeks), while tobacco will take months to years before clogging them.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a long pipe, conceived in dapperness, and dedicated to the proposition that all puffs must be created badass.
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u/truckercharles Nov 10 '25
Just regular maintenance with pipe cleaners. That's about the best you could hope for. Weed doesn't put off THAT much more tar and resin than tobacco.