How to roll a Blunt
What are "blunts?" The name, "Blunts," is a street
name used to describe a marijuana and tobacco cigar. Other street names
include "el-pees" (LP's), According to one source, blunts originated
among Jamaicans in New York City in the early 1980's (1). Blunts take
their name from "Phillies Blunt" brand cigars, although other
brands of similar make (such as El Producto, White Owl, and Dutch Masters)
are also used for this purpose(1). Tobacco is removed from the inside
of the cigar, and replaced with marijuana. Blunts vs. Joints Smoking marijuana
inside the leaf or paper wrapper of a cigar offers several advantages
to the user:
The tobacco wrapper slows down the burning rate of the joint. This allows
a greater number of users to share the same joint.(1)
A blunt holds more marijuana than a joint, and is convenient to use and
store. A single user can smoke it, extinguish it, and easily relight it.
"That's what's so cool about a blunt. Just put it out. It fits nicely
in the top pocket."(1)
It looks like a legal drug. Even though it is illegal for adolescents
to use tobacco products, blunts appear to be commercial tobacco cigars.
Policemen, teachers, and parents who ignore cigarette possession in minors
are likely to ignore blunts as well.
Nicotine from the tobacco content may add to the effects of the marijuana
in a blunt. Nicotine is a stimulant, and marijuana is a minor hallucinogen
with some depressant properties. Other stimulant and depressant combinations
include cocaine and heroin, cocaine and alcohol, amphetamines and alcohol.
At this writing, there appears to be no medical literature evaluating
the psychoactive effects of using marijuana and tobacco together vs. individually.
However, some of the comments made in one magazine interview are intriguing
and may indicate synergistic effects: "The blunt is more effective
=FC than smoking marijuana alone..." "When you smoke a blunt,
you get twice as high..." "At first, I didn't like it, 'cause
it made me dizzy. . . (1)
Why are Phillies Blunt cigars used?
Many other cigar brands are still being used to make blunts. Users say
that the Phillies Blunt brand produces less harsh- tasting or sweeter
smoke.(1) The leaf wrapper of a Phillies Blunt=FC is strong enough to
hold together through the manipulations of making a blunt. Other brands
fall apart.
Now, how to roll a blunt:
The first thing you have to know to roll a blunt, is Practice, Practice,
and Practice. It takes several tries before you can get it right. Go to
your corner store and buy a pack of Phillies Blunt Gars. Take a razor
blade, and cut it open like this: Take all the tobacco out. Lick the back
of the paper, that is, the outside of the gar, thoroughly. You really
need to make love to these things with your tounge. Next, place a healthy
portion of weed in the gar. Roll it up, and lick the edge thoroughly.
It takes a lot of saliva to make these things stick. When you have it
closed up, pop it in the microwave for about ten seconds, this makes it
stick better. The light it up, and smoke it. Get ready for a hell of a
smoke!
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