Shotgun cannabis: Encyclopedia II - Shotgun cannabis - Form of blowback

Shotgun cannabis - Form of blowback

The blowing of a "shotgun" or "super" is another name for kind of blowback. When smoking a cannabis cigarette of some sort, most typically a hollowed-out cigar called a "blunt", two people can participate in the blowing of a shotgun. When the cigarette is nearly burned all the way through, the lit end is placed in one person's mouth, with his lips clenched tightly on the unburning end. Another person (or both) forms a tube with his or their hands, and the person with the cigarette in his mouth exhales forcefully, forcing the smoke into the other person's mouth. A shotgun is best "blown" not with a very short blunt, but with a longer one as there is less heat build up in the "blower's" mouth. The blunt must, however, be short enough that its lit end does not burn the back of the "blower's" throat.

This practice is sometimes regarded as intimate, and to be performed only between friends or lovers. Sometimes in this situation, the person receiving the shotgun puts their mouth directly onto the cigarette in the other person's mouth, so that their lips may touch in a sort of kiss. In other contexts, there is little notion of intimacy involved, and a shotgun may be performed between and amongst complete strangers.

The term is said to have originated in the Vietnam War after U.S. soldiers adopted the method of smoking cannabis through the barrel of unloaded shotguns.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Form of blowback", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki