Blunt (cannabis)
A blunt is a tobacco or hemp leaf mostly filled with marijuana . In contrast to joints , until the early 2000s, blunts were mostly not rolled with special cigarette paper , but instead a cigar was broken or cut open and the tobacco filler was replaced with marijuana.
Blunts get their name from the Phillies Blunt brand cigars , which, because of their low cost, were widely used in North America to make blunts. The sale of Phillies cigars was stopped in Germany.
In the meantime, however, “empty” tobacco leaves (blunt casings) are used to fill them with marijuana and twist them together. These blunt casings can be flavored with different flavors such as cherry, strawberry, apple and many more. "Empty" blunts made of hemp are now also being offered so that blunts can be made and smoked completely without tobacco.
An empirical study of US youth by Golub, Johnson and Dunlap found u. a. that more than half of these marijuana users prefer blunts. This is considered a particularly noble type of smoke, which is often practiced on special occasions because of the complex production and the higher costs compared to a conventional joint.
literature
- R. Prince: How to Roll a Blunt for Dummies! Subversive Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-59971-758-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrew Golub: The Cultural / subcultural Contexts of Marijuana Use at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century . Haworth Press, 2006, ISBN 0-7890-3204-X ( limited preview in Google Book Search).