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In North America, a blunt is a cigar filled with marijuana.
There exist several techniques for accomplishing this. In one techinique, commonly known as "leafing", the outer leaf of the cigar is moistened and removed whole, leaving the inner leaf which is then folded and filled with the ground marijuana (the finer the better). The innerleaf is closed and wrapped by the outer leaf (which must remain moist). Leafing makes for a tightly rolled and durable blunt, also providing an even burn though no blunt will burn well if the weed is packed too tight or too thin.
Another technique, known as "spliffing," requires splitting the cigar down the middle, and emptying the original tobbacco out, replacing it with marijuana and sealing it back up.
Blunts became popular around 1995 and now is the prefered way to smoke marijuana in some crowds. Urban youths are stereotypically depicted smoking blunts, although its unclear if blunt smoking is more common in urban settings or not. The availability of inexpensive, lower-quality marijuana in urban settings may lead to increased use of blunts.
The added effect of the tobbacco in a blunt in negligible for a tobbaco consumer who has built nicotine tolerance, but can be noticable for people who are not regularly exposed to nicotine.
Blunts are typically not made from expensive cigars because they are rolled leafs around each other. More commonly, cheap cigars such Swisher Sweets, Garcia Vega, Philly Blunts, White Owls, or Dutchmasters are used.
There are other types you can use, but that list is the most popular. Blunt smoking in North America has even changed the tobbacco industry, they now offer flavored blunts for rollings, with no fillers. They also now make flavored cigars with all differnt types of flavors, like chocolate, strawberry, and peach. A good rule is to make sure that a blunt is no smaller around than a cigarette and as larger then you can possibly make it. Blunts have a ritualistic enthusiam associated with them, often allowing group participations in activities like "shotgunning" a practice named so for the practice of placing the mouth portion of the pipe into the barrel of an empty shotgun and having one person forcing air over a lit pipe into the chamber of the gun, and forcing the smoke into the recievers lungs. shotgunning now refers to the general practice of forcing smoke through the blunt into anothers lungs alloing for a direct and deep hit (not for light weights).
Blunt were an grindcore band from the City of Durham in England. Band members were Simon Edwards (drums), Eric Saunders (guitar), Nick Barker (vocals) and Andrew Barnes (bass). Their final live performance was at "Jam Night On Tour 2002".
Blunt is also a Bluetooth protocol stack for Newton OS 2.1 devices.[1] (http://www.40hz.org/Blunt/)
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