What country are you referring to? I know that in the UK it's often mixed, but in (Midwestern) America almost no one I've known has mixed tobacco with their cannabis.
See spliff (mixed with tobacco) or blunt (wrapped in tobacco leaf). Though the US is one of the smallest countries for the practice. I didn't realize how severe the differences were until I looked it up based on your comment. In Italy, 94% of marijuana smokers mix with tobacco!
We call it "full flavour" in Canada when there's no tobacco (or just "full"). Joint/spliff/doobie/etc are all synonyms of the final product, regardless of ingredients. There's a certain stigma associated with mixing tobacco in nowadays; unless you're a smoker, nobody wants that shit.
Ah yes, that's true - many people here in the states do smoke from blunts. I've never been a fan so I didn't even make the connection that it's like a joint wrapped in tobacco. Personally I'm a fan of slow, controlled burns and as little smell (excess smoke) as possible.
Sometimes if they are both smokers and cannabis users you'll see spliffs (blunts of half tobacco half weed) generally to get a head change, a buzz, a high, and to save on costs.
But spliff smokers are in the minority in the US. Was more prevalent in the past when more people smoked tobacco.
Nowadays most people use carts / pens for cannabis use anyway.
> Nowadays most people use carts / pens for cannabis use anyway.
I wonder if that's true or selection bias. Certainly we see more people with carts / pens, but I wonder if that's actually true of overall usage. Pens allow it to be less conspicuous and smelly which leads to more conspicuous usage, but flower smokers are still toking in basements and garages.
Yeah I assume it's very regional and even group specific. I don't think I was ever around a group that was at the level of smoke enough and constantly enough to need to cut to afford it.
Plenty of my friends will roll a blunt in a swisher sweets paper leaving some tobacco behind. It's very common in some communities in the US. We're a big culture :)
> In my experience most stoners mix their cannabis.
This is such an interesting observation. It may be true that worldwide it is MORE common to mix cannabis with tobacco than to not. But we wouldn't think that in the United States, because it is much more rare here.
Older cannabis users are more familiar with spliffs, and there are some sub-cultures where it is common, but it is not the norm here.
You are supposed to puff a tobacco pipe, as in you don't inhale just hold it in your mouth. Same with cigars. Treating either like cigarettes or marijuana is a sickening experience even for many nicotine addicts.
Ah, yeah I know that cigs you inhale, and pipes you let be in just the mouth.
Either way, there were brain pops that were happening around inside my head that I did absolutely not like. Not sure how others describe the nicotine phenomenon. I just know I didn't like that one bit.
> Do you mean head change? Basically a dizzy/foggy/rolling feeling mainly in the head.
Yah I never got a gentle dizzy rolling feeling.
Instead it felt like my brain was guitar strings and they were being plucked and vibrating. Then another. And another. They were very sudden, pluck/vibrate, and sped up the longer I smoked tobacco.
I did that pipe for about 20m. They sped up to about 3/second around the 10m mark. They finally quit at the 30m mark (10m after stopping).
I'm sure they slow down with tolerance. I just know I didn't like the feeling even starting.
Stoners, in the US at least, view tobacco as disgusting and look down on other stoners who use it, which is really ironic given the stigma that surrounded (surrounds?) smoking weed.
Though people still roll “spliffs” which is a mix of tobacco and weed, but the people that do that are few and far in between. Though people do roll “blunts” and “Woods”, which is basically a gas station cigarillo (swisher, Blackwood, etc) that’s opened up to let out the tobacco and weed is put in there instead, but the wrapper itself is either tobacco leaf or very close it—and this is a much more popular option, but the quantity of the tobacco smoked is as thin as the wrapper itself and it’s also more extravagant than a joint or using a bong.
This is a stretch. People that smoke weed are much more open to other substances, including tobacco, than the general population. Your social circle might be that way, but it doesnt represent weed smokers as a whole
