The One Unhealthy Fact Blunt Smokers Won’t Admit

Ben Owens
3 min readApr 7, 2021

Blunts are not a safe alternative to cigarettes.

I’ve been a blunt smoker since my first puff of pot more than a decade ago.

I love blunts.

But blunts aren’t healthy.

It pains me to say that.

Blunts aren’t healthy.

But we knew this, right?

Even as an avid blunt smoker and past cigarette smoker, I’m among the first to say something like,

“Well, that’s why I gut the blunt, I’m only using the outside wrapper.”

…Or…

“Well that’s why you have to put a whole eighth in a wood; gotta overpower the tobacco.”

The fact of the matter is: all tobacco consumption carries an inherent risk.

So does driving a car. Drinking alcohol. Consuming caffeine. You know, things we do every day.

Yes, there’s at least one calculated health risk we all take each day, but we do so with all of the information available.

How does the risk of blunts compare to commonly-demonized tobacco products like cigarettes?

There’s an argument out there that five blunts is the equivalent of one cigarette (it’s why I adjusted my weekly blunt balance to a…

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