How To Roll A Joint

Here's how to roll your own joint:

What you will need:

• Good Rolling Surface
• Rolling Paper
• Weed
• Grinder (optional)
• Lighter

First get yourself a nice rolling surface. Make sure it is also comfortable for preparing your smoking mixture. The mix is perhaps the most important part of the joint. Shred it as much as possible, with your fingers or a grinder, making sure the consistency is even. Tear the buds aparts, and remove any woody and lumpy parts, as well as any stray seeds.

Take a sheet of rolling paper and place on your rolling surface. The paper can be white, colored or even flavored, whatever suits your taste.

Distribute your mix over the paper - evenly for a straight joint, and with more towards the end for a cone shaped joint, which are preferred by experienced smokers, but are a little harder to roll.

Prepare your "roach". It can be a simple rectangle of cardboard paper rolled up and it will be your filter so your lips dont get burned when you reach the end of the joint. Placing it in before you roll is easier for the novice.

Now for the 'tricky' bit. Pick everything up and start in the middle, rolling outwards. Let your thumbs do most of the work and give support and pressure with your forefingers. You should start to feel the mix firming inside the paper.

When you have an even consistency tuck down the facing paper edge with tips of your thumbs, wrap the excess paper around the joint, wet the and seal that baby!

The best joints are firm but so tight you have to bust a lung drawing smoke. Loose joints taste rough, burn too fast and have a nasty habit of setting light to clothing and furniture.

Here you have it - the perfect joint. Enjoy!