Stoner MacGyver marijuana product review: The Kashtray

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? The Kashtray

The Kashtray
"When your bowl is kashed, it's got your ash"
Retail price: $19.99 for a single Kashtray, discounts with wholesale orders.
Where to find them: www.kashtray.com

Creator Jason Delickta said the idea for the Kashtray came to him one day back in the early 2000s when he was living in Boulder with his girlfriend, who at the time was taking a pottery class at CU. A true Stoner MacGyver, Delickta figured there had to be a better way to cash out his pipes without having a sticky, resin-covered piece of coat hanger wire in his ashtray all the time. He also wanted something less abusive on a glass piece than the champagne corks glued into ashtrays that his friends were using.

the original Kashtray

He says he went with his girlfriend to the studio one night, and the first Kashtray was born from a lump of ceramic. He says he originally drilled into the dried ashtray with a masonry bit and glued a finish nail upright to complete the piece. He says he has used his prototype steady for ten years without ever drawing blood or breaking a pipe until he put it away in storage four years ago around the time of a move to Taiwan.

Then, last summer, Delickta says he was cleaning out his storage unit and found his invention and had a flash of stoner brilliance. There's a big ceramics industry in Taiwan and marijuana is a huge industry in the states. Putting the two together was simple math. He says he made his way back to Taiwan, went to a do-it-yourself pottery studio to make a new prototype and sent it off to a factory to be replicated.