The following is the text portion of the March 1992 HIGH TIMES centerfold! HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT by B-REAL Muggs taught us how to get blunted. It's an east coast thing-one of his friends introduced him to it. All you need to roll a blunt is a Phillies blunt cigar and a decent quantity of the buddha (about an eight of an oz.) 1) Bite off the tip of the blunt. 2) Make a good slice down the middle of the blunt (length-wise). Either do it by hand or with a razor blade. 3) Pell the outside layer of tobacco off the blunt. If you leave the outside layer on, it tends to have a nasty taste. The single layer doesn't override the nice buddha flavor. Lick the ends of the blunt paper. Wave it in the air, so it'll dry. 4) Break up the buddha. Word up. Throw away the tobacco. We don't put that in there, we're not in Europe. 5) Roll it up, dude! One blunt is equivelent to about five joints. If you've got a good-sized blunt and you've got good weed, definitely five joints or more. The size is variable. You can roll it like a cigar blunt or like a cigarillo. It depends on how much buddha you have handy. 6) Smoke it up, dude! A blunt gets you a little higher because of the tobacco paper. It also burns slower and goes around more times. Word up. That's the only reason I'm with it. HOW TO ROLL A BLUNT by REDMAN (What follows are exerpts from the ROLLING with REDMAN interview in the March 93 HIGH TIMES dealing with the art of Blunt Rolling) "I split it down the middle with my fingernails, you know, real simple,"he says. "Sometimes I leave the ass on, sometimes I take it off, it depends on how I'm rolling." Redman's referring to the curved end of the cigar. As he undressed the Phillie, he stops short of peeling away the blunt's outer leaf, as advised by Cypress Hill's B-Real in HIGH TIMES a year ago. "I don't separate the paper," Redman relates, "cause I roll my shit thick. I dont roll, like, little thin ones. Peace to B-Real and to all them Cypress Hill niggas 'cause they're dedicated reeferheads. That's what we need, muthafuckas who's for real." Redman rolls it up, licks the whole blunt and then dries it with his lighter. "This looks like some good shit," he smiles. "Let's burn it" How to ROLL A BLUNT part free (What follows are exerpts from the March 1993 HIGH TIMES... STORY of the BLUNT...... again just dealing with rolling blunts. Check out the whole article for stuff like...RASTA ROOTS, FIRST BLUNTS, WHAT'S UP with the blunt and FROM WHITE OWLS TO PHILLIES) GURU: "The recipe, basically, is break it with your fingers-that's the rudeboy way. Don't use a knife or scissors, break it with your fingertips straight down the middle. Hold it with the sweet end toward the bottom and break it from the open end. It takes a nickel bag's worth on the New York scale-in other words, if you buy a dime, you get two blunts.(*) You don't have to smoke it all at once. That's what's so cool about a blunt. Just put it out. It fits nicely in the top pocket." BOSCO MONEY: "Take your cigar, slice it open, dump the tobacco out and then just put your cheeba in it and roll it and lick it. Thats it. Some brothers say that if you don't have a razor blade you can use a key. You can use your fingernails if you don't clip 'em. Where there's a will there's a way." Well, thats just a little sample, something for the blunted! In my travels I've found people in the so-called inner-city seem to favor the Redman method. Having tried them all from El-P's thru Owls into Phillies I would place my reputation on the Cypress Hill method! If you smoke shitweed, then its ok to hide it in an owl or a double paper phillie, but if you only smoke quality why hide it! Lastly, I lick both ends of the blunt paper BEFORE rolling, sometimes I even lick the whole paper (DO NOT SATURATE!!!) After drying the paper is a LOT more supple and rolling is easier! I have also found that if you start on one end of the cigar and roll/twist it comes out somewhat more uniform than if you roll it like a joint! Now fire it up, and crank up some Cypress Hill, Dr. Dre's The Chronic, and Loc's Cheeba Cheeba just for the Hip Hop Flavor of the Blunt! All subsequent blunts can be smoked to the Dead, the dolls, sex pistols, even the fuckin beatles! -Peace- Hempster Handtyped from referenced HIGH TIMES by Hempster for HempLine. Please support NORML, C.A.N., H.E.M.P., B.A.C.H., A.C.T.,etc.. Read The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Marijuana Reconsidered, Marijuana:The Forbidden Medicine etc. I can be left a msg on Wizards Vale BBS 5168267866