Blunt Review

I think that the two cleanest, or most beneficial to your health ways of ingesting cannabis is either eating it in the form of "edibles" ranging from using the plant as an herb in savory recipe applications, or baked using a cannabutter method; also using a aromatic herb vaporizer to heat cannabis into a "Volcano bag" or using something like the "whip" attachment on HerbalAir, and like products. Using a vaporizer only releases the wanted cannabinoids and can be inhaled with out damaging your lungs with smoke or any other potentially harmful substance. When smoking the herb the "cleanest' hit would come from a "water-pipe" type apparatus. Using cold water and ice in these cools the smoke for a refreshing blast to your favorite green happy place. Also regular glass pipes, hookahs, "gravity bongs", metal pipes, chillums, and many other homemade smoking apparatus can be used to smoke cannabis. One of the "stoner-esque super high powers" from this magical herb are coming up with new and interesting ways to get a great blast off.

Though sometimes viewed as "ghetto" or something that thug gang member drug types might use to smoke made most famous by African-American rappers and celebrities would be the "blunt", flavored cigar or cigarillo, or wrap. Sometimes bought as a tobacco filled cigar and sometimes even smoked in a custom mix of tobacco and cannabis  in a "spliff" this is typically showed being smoked by rappers like Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Cyprus Hill, Method Man and Redman along with many others.

 This is a tobacco filled cigarillo, my personal favoite brand and flavor of White Grape. They are easy to break down by hand are sturdy for lower grade cannabis, and are easy for beginner rollers.

This is another more complicated cigar, with cusomizable qualities like leafed or unleafed rolling options. Also this particular type has another option I found especially interesting; two indented places to tear open the stay fresh packaging. One at the top with a zipper to reclose pouch and a notch just below the zipper for "emergency access" perhaps so that if you are too high to open the zipper you can still access your cigar at a moments notice!

 Lil Wayne has his own brand of "Bogey Blunts" in 3 styles:Bogey Trees, Bogey Woods, and Bogey Maters. These are classed in a non veined cigarillo version in the purple packaging labeled "Trees". These were the first of the Bogey Blunts that I had discovered at a local country store while I lived isolated in part of the rural south. I happily found that these were actually slightly perferated lengthwise for easy opening without a blade or need for good nails. The Bogey Woods and Master each has increasing amount of veiny, leafy structure that can be harder to master rolling but sometimes favored by certain smokers who also like the "Dutch Master" type cigars. 

Most smokers who are aficionadoes in this type of smoke usually have their own style to rolling a cannabis cigar. A perferred wrap to use, and method to extracting the tobacco and even how much cannabis or how to prepare the cannabis for rolling. The more complex rollers go as far as coating rolled cigars in other substances like honey to provide a very SLOW smoke with a sweeter hit. Some rollers perfer to use a grinder to uniformilly break down their ganja and some like Snoop Dogg and I perfer to break it down by hand. I feel that it is that level of THC that makes my rolling unique.

Sometimes while rolling tragic incidents occur like accepting a stale cigar or having a rip, tear, or hole occur while breaking down or rolling up. Sometimes cigar can become so damaged they are almost impossible to be rolled into a smokeable cannabis cigar, and sometimes talented rollers need to use engenuity to patch holes, and repair tears. Joint papers as well as small pieces of the cigar can be used to patch holes or cover areas where smoke could escape during a big drag.

Even more sophisticated smokers like to roll a "filter" or some other cardboard like rolled stopper into the end that will come to your lips while smoking to prevent cannabis from getting sucked into your mouth, and to ensure that you can smoke your cigar without wasting any cannabis by smoking your cigar down into a "roach". It also makes it easier to hold between your fingers for longer without a burning sensation or having to use "roach clips" or as any Stoner Bitch knows the bobby pin is the stoners best friend. The bobby pin can be used to gently pinch a roach with out cutting off air flow completely and gives you an easy length to hold the roach closly to your lips. Other bobby pin uses include stirring bowl, scrapping resin, poking in edges of cigars and joints during rolling or smoking.

I do wonder, what traditions, or geographical/ethnic customs do you include in your smoking habits? Do you plays games with your cannabis? Have you experimented and found an new adn interesting way to toke up? I have quite a few interesting memories of great tokes and smooth smokes, I am always looking for new ways to get my ganja on and new friends to chare the experience with. I invite whoever may be interested to share their favorite ways to get in touch with their ganja god.

For High Times article featuring Snoop Dogg, "Bluntology 101" enjoy this link:http://hightimes.com/entertainment/ht_admin/6806