[vexvelour]

It's probably a mix of #'s 1 & 3.

Bongs get the job done better and faster, plus the water filters out some of the resinous crap that gets stuck in your lungs.

Do you know if you're smoking Cryp or Regs? Regs is the cheapie stuff that tastes really bad- a lot of times regs can vary greatly in strength. Cryp is the buds... these vary even more (a la High Times) in that there are thousands of different strands of it.

Also when you first start smoking a number of things come into play- who you smoke with, what you're doing when you're smoking, etc. that can change what you're feeling from the high.

Hope this helps.