How do I roll a marijuana joint?

Smoking a joint is a common way of consuming cannabis. Rolling joints is a skill all medical cannabis patients should have. This wikiHow will show you how to prepare and roll a marijuana joint. This is a certified hood classic. Choose your rolling paper. Choose thin rice or wheat straw paper in standard or king size. Plan to tear your paper down to size--wide and square is a good starting shape that offers versatility. Prepare and grind the marijuana.

Handle the flower heads with care to protect the delicate THC glands and use a weed grinder or sharp scissors to break up the bud. Remove any seeds, stems, and leaves, and grind up the buds into smaller pieces. Make your mix. This is optional, but some people add tobacco, leaf or another herbal smoking mixture to the bud so it can "breathe" in the joint. Whatever you use, be sure the consistency is even and that you've broken up or removed any lumps or woody bits. Make the filter tip.

This is a piece of index card that's inserted into the end of a marijuana cigarette. It prevents a marijuana cigarette from clogging up, keeps pieces of marijuana from falling out, allows the smoke to flow through, filters out a little tar and stops a marijuana cigarette from dissolving in your mouth when it burns down to the end. Roll the joint. There are several ways to roll a basic joint; the method depicted below is a freestyle roll. Rolling inside out.

Some people prefer to roll the joint 'inside out', where the paper is held upside down with the glued edge held towards you, sticky side down. This technique is generally harder to perform, but will get rid of most of the stingy smoke caused by the burning of excess paper. To roll a joint inside out, simply follow the steps as you would with a normal joint, but when all rolled up, lick the non-gummed rim of paper where you can see the glued edge slightly shine through. Carefully put some pressure on the area where you can see the gummed edge to make the two layers stick. Finally, tear off the excess paper when the paper has dried and twist the end to prevent your contents from falling out.