DNA - Not Just For Fingering Perps

The ever-remarkable DNAInfo provides a detailed police blotter, and boy howdy does this one start with a barn burner. In a scene reminiscent of the cult film Reefer Madness, "crack" journalist Rachel Holiday Smith recounts the detail of a canabismal confrontation:

A man slashed his female companion in the neck with a machete after the pair’s pot-smoking session went sour.
The 45-year-old woman and the man were smoking pot at an apartment at 580 Flatbush Ave. inProspect-Lefferts Gardens in the early morning hours of July 4, police said. When the man told her to leave around 6:30 a.m., the pair got into an argument.
A short time later, the man took out the machete and slashed the woman multiple times in the neck, police said.
The woman suffered minor injuries and fled the apartment.

The last line leaves me stunned. "The woman suffered minor injuries..."

All I can say is this baked bully used remarkable restraint and precision to take a machete (my neighbor from Guyana calls it a cutlass) and slash a neck multiple times without serious injury. In my extensive experience, machete slashings tend to end badly. Real badly.

The more important question for me is whether this 6:30 am attack took place at the END of a long night, or was this is more of a wake and bake kind of thing?

Glad no one was hurt too terribly. Counseling, both anger and drug, might be indicated. 

An related advertisement caught my eye. First off, who needs a ten-piece machete set? Secondly, shouldn't a machete ALWAYS be sold with a sheath?