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Cannabis cigarettes. Perhaps still the most common form that cannabis is used despite the serious effects of tobacco on health. Joints are seen as a sociable way of sharing cannabis and a produce a more gradual high than some other methods. The ability to craft a well formed joint is very important to many pot heads and is viewed as an art - a master craftsman can roll many forms of joint such as cones, tulips, swallow's tails and even novelty animals! All without spilling any tobacco. There are many ways of sticking cigarette papers together to roll a joint, so we'll limit ourselves to describing a basic method. It employs the use of 3 normal size papers or skins Step 1. Take 2 of the papers and overlap them width-ways by about 1.5cm to form one large skin. Moistened the glue where they overlap and stick them together, to form one new long skin. Step 2. Take your new one long skin and place it face down on a flat surface, take the third skin and lick right along the gummed edge. Then stick this along the crease of the single large skin so that the rest of the third skin folds over the edge of the long skin that has no glue on it and supports the other skins. It should look something like this (where horizontal dashed lines are creases and horizontal solid lines are edges) |
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Step 3. Turn over and fold the single loose flap over and you should have one long re-inforced skin. You can then add either the cannabis first, the tobacco first or a pre-prepared mix, just as long as both make it in! Then gently lift and roll the tobacco into a cylinder, do it slowly back and forth and it will gradually pack down nicely. Once satisfied that you have a good shape ,lick along the gummed edge and roll the skin into tube. Step 4. Twist one end of the papers closed and then raising the still open end up take a match, or the like, and gently push down the tobacco at this end. If the joint is looking loose then shake tobacco down towards the sealed end. Take a strip of cardboard about 1.5 X 3cm and roll tightly into cylinder and push into the open end of the joint to form the 'roach' . A small insect often found in student flats and nearly impossible to kill, er I mean a device to stop people from dribbling all over the end and making it impossible to inhale any smoke. (Hey maybe that was Bill Clinton's problem?). Step 5. Spark It! |
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