Who loves rolling joiints?

[Taylorz]

I've been buying prerolls a lot lately and at $5 apiece for about .75 grams, I figure I need to start learning how to roll my own.

With the 4/20 specials out there tomorrow, I'll have some opportunity to roll some top-shelf weed.

I bought RAW hemp plastic cigarette and plenty of weed, but it somehow ends up looking like toothpicks, when I try to roll...

The budtenders make it look so easy.. I don't know how amazing they do these...

Might have to find a decent step-by-step video or instructions.....

[tech3149]

1. It ain't that hard but if you heeda hand try this

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Metallic-Automatic-Cigarette-Rolling/dp/B005NIBZ58/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1429497933&sr=8-6&keywords=roll+your+own

You can also find cheaper rollers at a local tobacco shop but the belts are heat bonded vinyl that fail pretty quickly.
As a tobacco smoker I've been rolling my own for decades. I can't do the old cowboy movie one handed roll but I have all the other options covered.
Just wish cannabis was an option here.

[Taylorz]

3. Hmm.. interesting idea

I'll look into investing into a nice roller. In fact, I have $30 in credit at Amazon..

[Taylorz]

7. To follow up on this

Decided to order one.. the above link is for a 70mm, I was looking for 79mm which is what the paper sizes are I find...

Found one, and ordered it. Thanks bud!

[PeaceNikki]

22. I have that one. I find it tricky. I use the cheap Zig Zag one now.

Let us know how you like it!

[B Calm]

2. I use to back in 1973 when it was 15 dollars an ounce. Too much waste going up in smoke,

so only a one hitter for tight ass me!

[Adsos Letter]

8. I remember $10.00 lids. Four finger bags.

Weighing was a later development.

[pipoman]

12. Do you remember the tray under the couch with 6 Oz of seeds and stems?

That's sort of a thing of the past too...

[Adsos Letter]

14. LOL

Ah, yeah, using the flap of the Zig-Zag packet to separate seeds and stems from the good stuff. I remember breaking up a pound that had about a tree branch sized "stem" buried in the middle of it. The days of Mexican brown weed.

I quit smoking over 30 years ago, just when Sinsemilla was really replacing the Mexican brown stuff around here. Thai stick was the closest thing I'd had prior to that. Then, about 10 years ago, a guy I worked with gave me a thumb-sized bud of some orange-hair Mendocino grown stuff.

Went home, made a beer can carburetor, and took about five hits...

Thought I was gonna' have a heart attack.

[pipoman]

15. it's a different world

I do miss the taste of the brown, haven't tasted that for decades. Being in Denver the week after recreational became law was surreal...years of smoking and possessing illegally and suddenly it is legal. Going to a party at a glass bong shop with 150 people smoking pot out back, cops wandering through checking id's of young lookers joking around with everyone before heading on their way...surreal...

[Adsos Letter]

16. It will be interesting to see it finally happen here in California

although it has been practically legal here for quite awhile.

Back in the day you could really get in trouble for it though, depending on the cop and the judge.

I smoked regularly for about 10 years before I quit, and for quite some time afterwards if I was driving and saw a cop, my first thought would be to what was in my ash tray.

[Gregorian]

18. I live in Mendocino. And the story is the same here.

I smoked from the late 60's until ten years ago. Then got my card. While leaving the local cooperative for my first purchase recently, I saw a tiny bud on the floor. I picked it up, and when I got home smoked only half a bong hit. I was literally laying on the floor for a half hour wondering if I could hold it all together. It was like going back in time to the days when we really smoked too much.

I heard a customer telling his story the other day while downtown. He grew up in Mendocino, and thought he was pretty experienced. When he went to Thailand, someone rolled him an actual "pinner". He chuckled, and smoked part of it before realizing he was wasted to the point where he thought he was going to have to go to the hospital. Haha.

[Gregorian]

17. And using double album covers for deseeding.

Oh man, those were the days.

And then Bob Marley's album came out, and we all couldn't believe it.

[waddirum]

33. My memories of the album deseeding

ELO - "Out of the Blue"
Wings - "Wings Over America"

[pipoman]

4. start by using Randy's papers...firm even pressure all the way across

Not too much pressure...just right...there are other methoda..the dollar bill method is easy, just be careful not to use too much pressure...

[Adsos Letter]

6. I used to place a bit more on the left and right side of the paper

and leave a bit less in the middle...always rolled out a nice even joint. And I always used white Zig-Zag's.

[pipoman]

9. I learned 30 years ago with zigzag

Randy's has a fine wire in the ungummed end..it is there to eliminate need for a clip, but it evens out the roll too...they'd just be easier to learn with than thinner papers imo

[Adsos Letter]

11. Oh, I agree. Zig-Zag used to make that yellow, wheat paper. Much stiffer, as I recall...

...but harsh.

This thread just has me reflecting on old times.

[pipoman]

10. reminded me

When i was in college the neighborhood bar where we always bought beer was also the watering hole for a bunch of old timers..one of the old guys was rolling his own cigarettes, I was an 18 year old kid watching...he said I'll buy you a 6 pack if you can do that....he misread my dumb look, I picked up his bugle papers and tobacco and rolled a pretty good cigarette...he was shocked, but bought my beer...

[Adsos Letter]

13. Oh, yeah, Bugle tobacco and papers

Back in my Army days, when I was a smoker, Bugle was the go-to if the Marlboro's ran out before payday. I actually learned to roll an even-burning smoke with those.

[Adsos Letter]

5. It's like teaching someone to cut a straight line with a paintbrush

Much easier to demonstrate in person than to explain.

[NBachers]

19. I guess the Esterilla Bambu rollers aren't available any more. Too bad

"The cigarette is ready to give you a pleasant smoke!"

[pnwest]

20. Ah, back in the day I used to be able to

roll a doob while driving! A stick shift! But I, too, have gone to one-hitters for frugality.

[tridim]

21. I love rolling with a $3.00 rolling machine

They make PERFECT tubes of herb.



I can roll without one, but why bother?

[PeaceNikki]

23. This is my preference as well.

[Arwinnick]

24. Smoking for 48 years

I gave up on papers and joints about 15 years ago.I just use 1/4 gram pipes or one hitters.My stash tends to last months this way,with no waste.

[B Calm]

25. Lay your rolling paper on a flat surface (glue side up),

sprinkle the amount of weed you want to roll onto the paper in a straight line, leave everything on the flat hard surface and using both hands roll the paper into a tight joint. Lick the glue and your done.

[brewens]

26. You can use a dollar bill to simulate one of those e-z roller machines.

I little practice and you can roll a nice fatty effortlessly. I got so I could roll almost a perfect regular cigarette width joint. That was how I learned and it worked so well that I never did bother to learn to roll well freehand. This guy wets the paper before he puts it in there. I never did that. Once rolled you can pull it from the bill and do that easily.

[frylock]

31. yep

[jomin41]

27. rollin' is just like smokin'

Practice, practice, practice...

[Go Vols]

28. Who else remembers smoking a joint

that said Tampax on it?

Then they changed them to silky plastic and no go any more in emergencies.

[Buzz cook]

29. Zig Zag Extra wide ing the orange pack

Are easier to roll with. The extra paper is more forgiving for a beginner. What you roll is also important, its much easier to roll leaves and large flakes.
As was mentioned above place most of the dope toward the ends with less in the middle. If not you end up with a snake that ate the rabbit look with a big lump in the center.

Given enough practice you can roll monster joints with multiple papers.

[eridani]

30. No more joints for me--my nephew gave me a vape pipe for Christmas n/t

[Oilwellian]

32. Use 1.5 sized papers

Fold the paper across about a quarter of the way up, put pot evenly across the paper and roll it from the middle. The ends will always take care of themselves. After you've rolled it from the middle to the glue, lick across and gently use your whole finger to pat down all the way across. The less pressure used on the ends, the more even the joint will be.

I practiced this years ago for about thirty minutes and got it down pat. The only problem being, all of your friends will appoint you the official roller.

[OnionPatch]

34. I do.

I've always preferred joints to any other way of smoking so I've gotten pretty good at rolling them. My latest thing is using rolling tips. The pre-rolls at the dispensaries always have them so I decided to try them. They keep the marijuana in the joint so you don't get it in your mouth when you draw on it, and also, they make it possible to smoke the whole thing down with no waste. I hate accumulating stinky "roaches". Once you get the hang of rolling, try using rolling tips. You can find videos on YouTube showing how. IMO, you can't roll a perfect joint without a rolling tip.

That said, I only roll a joint once in awhile these days, usually only when I have company or am at a party, because joints are hard on my lungs. I try to keep to the vaporizer these days.

[madokie]

35. Drop by sometime

with papers and herb in hand and be willing to share a toke or two and I'm happily show you how easy it is.
Back story: Started rolling cigarettes before the first grade so I have been rolling joints/cigarettes for a long time and its relatively easy.
By the time I started smoking weed everyone thought I was an old pot head because of my rolling prowess. LOL
Once at a robin trower concert someone hollered out anyone here roll a joint, I rose my hand and the zigzags and baggies started coming my way. I must have rolled a hundred maybe two hundred when for whatever reason I look to my left and see the jeans with the strip down the side like cops wear and I look up at him and he's looking down at me, I smile, he smiles and we both went back to enjoying the music. I'll never forget that look and smile I got from the cop. Best concert I ever went too and I've been to a bunch of them. when I say best I mean me getting into the music like I did. It just carried me away.

[shanti]

36. only if traveling

otherwise, just a glass pipe. like others above have said, waste not, want not!