Be Healthy Y’all Killer Blunts: Don’t Get It Twisted By: Stic.Man of Dead Prez And Afya Mafuane Everybody smokes weed, or damn near. You can’t go to any hood right now and the smell of ganja ain’t thick in the air.

The pressures of living in this bullshit system have almost everyone of us rolling up something to get high. Out of the many things that can be used to get blazed, by far smoking blunts is as popular as it gets. Brothers and sisters alike start and finish our days with blunt after blunt, like it was water. With so much use of blunts it’s important to be hip to what it is we are enjoying so much. The more we know and understand about what it is we are doing, the better we can defend our rights to do it or avoid any dangers.

Have you ever been about to smoke some weed and didn’t have no "l" to roll it up in? Some body might have some rolling papers but you were like "naw, dog i need a back wood or a dutch or worst come to worst at least a white owl or swisher sweet! What is it about that blunt that makes us crave it just as strong as we crave the weed?

Nicotine is a chemical found naturally in tobacco. When tobacco is smoked, the amount of nicotine is increased. Once you smoke so many blunts, your body begins to crave the nicotine in the blunts. This is because when nicotine hits the system it triggers the release of a chemical called Epinephrine that stimulates your nerves, raises your heart rate and pumps up your adrenaline…sounds like some good sex, huh? As a result, dopamine is released by your brain. Dopamine is the chemical that creates the sensation of pleasure in your brain. This chemical and mental effect of pleasure that nicotine has on the body is why so many people develop tobacco habits and use it to cope with the boredoms, stresses and anxieties of life.

So nicotine is what we are craving when we gotta have that blunt. But besides nicotine every blunt has over 4,ooo other harmful chemicals. Carbon monoxide and tar are two of the most gangsta. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that gets in the blood stream and decreases the flow of oxygen to the heart and the brain. This can cause diseases to develop in the heart and brain. Its presence in the blood stream also causes cholesterol build up which increases the risk of a heart attack. Tar is a toxic ingredient that sits in the lungs and contributes to the development of throat and lung infections. It blocks the lungs’ natural process of cleansing themselves, and leaves them raw and defenseless to all types of germs and diseases. Including everything from bronchitis all the way to cancer! In addition, smoking tobacco causes the bile salts in the intestines to move to the stomach. This intensifies the acids in the stomach and they begin to form ulcers in the stomach lining. If you smoke a lot of blunts, you get colds more often, you have more throat related illnesses and your immune system in general, is compromised.

So how do you get blazed without smoking blunts? There are many "highly-rated" alternatives. Making a tea instead of rolling a blunt will save you that backwood money. A water bong, a "cool" alternative. Dried corn husk. You can even carve out a narrow tunnel in an apple, and make a edible pipe. Seriously, it has been ,,,well, let’s just say …tested to perfection. If u have a little chef skills about you ,u can make just about any dish imaginable with a ganja spike. Cookies , pies, brownies, spaghetti sauce; you name it. And last but not least some good old hemp rolling papers (skirts-as we call them), They bring out the taste of the ganja that gets hidden by the overpowering tobacco flavor.
Or you could not smoke at all…
yeah right…