No we’re not talking about football?!? This is HOWIQUITWEED.COM and we’re only talking about passing on a joint packed with luxurious cannabis, cos that’s what we do here!! YEAP this month’s article we’re looking at spliff passing etiquettes! We’ve discussed in the past HE WHO HOLDS ONTO THE SPLIFF JUST THAT BIT TOO LONG! where we reminised over the times (we’ve all been there) when “that guy” just doesn’t pass the spliff. but today we shall be examining different attitudes around the world to smoking weed.
Spliff Cultures & Customs
In Europe generally one rolls a spliff for themselves and sits around others and smokes it themselves, very much like lighting a cigarette or pouring themselves a drink. Perfect example was what I observed in the coffeeshops in Amsterdam where most of the people either seemed to be smoking their own joints or had a joint resting in the ash tray. Now the origins of the “PUFF PUFF PASS” phrase from general googling seem to come from America with many attributing this to them rolling a joint with pure weed no tobacco. It’s like passing around a hit which makes sense to pass it on before you find yourself knocked out on the ground. Strangely in the UK, I find a mix between both cultures with some choosing to roll one joint for the group and others rolling individually.
Practicality
If you’ve all picked up a stash of green, it does make more sense to roll up a joint and pass it around and share the experience. This in reality is more practical and makes more sense then using some scales to divide the weed and then proceed to make your individual joints. However if you’re already in the position where everybody has their own weed supplies and is in a position to make their own, then it’s far more practical to do that.
Pros & Cons
Skinning up one group dubee is like everybody drinking from the same well, everybody sharing the same concentration of the spliff , getting high at the same level at the same time, i.e GETTING HIGH TOGETHER!! Nobody can turn around and say “I’m smoked more than you!!” This sharing experience is why many feel that smoking weed bonds people together and why drinking doesn’t always. The advantage is however you get problems as discussed in the article SO HOW MUCH WEED SHOULD GO INTO A SPLIFF. You don’t suffer from the “dude who puts in too much into a spliff” or “the dude who has a stupidly high tolerance”, or the guy who is always sprinkling and putting hardly anything into the spliff, or have you been a victim of a toploader, the guy who can’t roll a joint and worse of all, the spliff licker, who licks the spliff 3 or 4 times in every direction to ceil the joint. The problem here being hygiene, a person with a cough, or cold will share his germs with everybody in the group. The added bonuses of rolling your own is that you will find that you smoke less overall, as when always being passed a spliff the tendacy would be to smoke it. Now that this is your own spliff, you can regular how much goes in, determine how much tobacco you’ll smoke and generally be the maker of your own destiny.