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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.

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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!

https://www.inverse.com/article/32064-america-europe-tobacco...

In Europe the terms are reversed a joint is mixed with tobacco and a spliff is pure. Threw me off when I visited the US for the first time.

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.

isn't "spliff" from "split"?

It seems. But it refers to the paper or wrap, not splitting between tobacco and weed, apparently.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spliff

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.

Anecdotally I've never encountered someone mixing in the US.

Mixing is very common in nyc. See grabba/fronto

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.

> 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.

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 :)

Even if you don't leave some tobacco behind, the wrap is usually made from tobacco pulp or leaves. So everyone smoking blunts is smoking tobacco.

UK, Europe, South America and Australia. I haven't had the chance to smoke with any Midwesterners, maybe one day.

German here. WTF, you smoke your high potency pot pure?!

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