“This is the weapon of a true OG. Not as clumsy or random as a spliff; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.”
― Obi Wan Kenobi

The blunt is the lightsaber of cannabis smoking. To master blunts is to master two herbs, cannabis and also tobacco, and therefore to have developed a fine taste for the mixing of two broad and subtle palates that overlap only in strange places. This is not to say one must be a master to enjoy the art of the blunt, only to frame for those of us who may be considering the art as a discipline for the first time.

In an age of grappling hooks and supercomputers and body armor and trick arrows on every corner, the crafting of a blunt is somehow entering into an era of obscurity, which is a shame. The principal drawback of blunt smoking is that blunts kind of take a lot of weed, and there is a fixed cost in terms of lost material associated with each session on a blunt, due to the large surface area presented for

"The x day of July...ther ded in London mony marchants and grett ryche men and women, and yonge men and old, of the new swett."

- From the diary of English merchant Henry Machyn,
recording the arrival of the English Sweating Sickness in London, July 1551.

"Both victor and vanquished
are but drops of dew -
but bolts of lightning –
thus should we view the world.

if only
i could confess my sins
but
they catch in my throat,
choking me.

i beg god to forgive me
though i doubt he hears me
over my gasping breaths,
spittle finding its way down my chin.

title from America's Suitehearts by Fall Out Boy.