Information about Joint (cannabis)

Joint is slang for a cigarette rolled with cannabis. Usually, rolling papers are used, while in the developing world (where these are scantily available), brown paper, cigarettes with the tobacco removed, or newspaper are used. Blunts are also used to roll marijuana, after the tobacco is removed. Papers made for rolling are usually made of rice. Some manufacturers use hemp as an alternative. The word spliff is used as slang for a marijuana cigarette rolled with tobacco mixed in.

The word "joint" probably comes from the past participle of the French word "joindre", meaning "combine", "enclose", "blend" or simply "join".

Tobacco mix

Mixing tobacco in with the cannabis is much more common in Europe, Northern Africa, Australia the Middle East and stretching down through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and into India, partly because the majority of cannabis is resin which cannot be smoked on its own in a joint. People who use tobacco claim it helps the joint burn, when loose tobacco acts as "kindling" to ignite the moister and denser cannabis, while some non-tobacco smokers claim that tobacco destroys the cannabis high. Some smokers also avoid mixing cannabis with tobacco for fear of becoming addicted to tobacco.

"Roach"

A roach can either refer to a filter made out of a rolled up piece of cardboard (like a matchbook cover) or similar material or can refer to what is described below. See "crutch" below.

The most distinct product of the joint is the roach, or unburnt unconsumed butt end. Roaches are typically either consumed with the aid of a roach clip which offers a narrow grip without the risk of burning one's fingers, or are saved to be combined with other roaches and rerolled into a composite or second generation roach joint. Roaches are also sometimes finished by being smoked in a pipe, or (in rare cases) consumed by eating. This is sometimes referred to as "eating the peanut", "popping the roach" or "Wu Tang-ing it".

Roaches are often seen as unpleasant, since the proximity of the lit end to the consumers face causes uncomfortable amounts of heat, and sometimes burns if it is not handled carefully. Also, when a paper filter tip as described above is not present, the saliva from the smoker's mouth often causes the paper at the mouth end of a joint to become saturated, making it even more unpleasant to smoke as-is. The fate of a roach is often dictated by geography. Cannabis users in each town or city typically have their own customs in regards to dealing with this.

A "crutch" less commonly referred to as a roach (above) is a small piece of cardboard placed in the end of a rolled joint. The purpose of a crutch is to aid the smoker in consuming all of the marijuana in a smoked joint, without burning their fingers in the process. While a common crutch is made using scissors to cut a small rectangle out of the cover on the book of rolling papers, a number of materials can be used. A crutch can be inserted at the beginning of the rolling process (see picture) or it can be placed into the end of the joint after it has been rolled.

See also

• Blunts
• Cannabis
• Hashish
• Hemp
• Legality of cannabis by country

External links

• How to roll a spliff or joint
• Another guide on how to roll a joint
• The Cannabis Encyclopedia
• BuyASpliff

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