A chalice, also known as a wisdom chalice or chillum chalice, is a type of cannabis smoking pipe used most often by members of the Jamaican

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. It is a sort of

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with a hose, or drawtube, for inhaling; the water cools and filters the smoke and the hose provides additional airspace for cooling. A screen embedded in the crater protects against drawing in burning particles to clog the interior. The word ''chalice'' (along other permutations such as ''chalwa'', ''chali'', etc.) is often used to refer to

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itself, which certain Rastafari consider to be of specific religious importance as they believe it is a gift from Jah. The term "lick the chalice" refers to Rasta communing with Jah. A group of practitioners gather, a prayer is said, and the chalice lit and passed counter-clockwise among the group. A

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-like chillum equipped with a water filtration chamber is sometimes referred to as a chalice, based on a quote from the

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book of

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. Thanks and praises are offered to Jah before

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the chillum.The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett 1988
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