Perfecting The Joint Rolling Mix

Half the battle to rolling the perfect joint is getting your marijuana mix right. Most people don’t use a mix, but it’s a good way to save your money, bud, and add different types of buzzes as well as a variety of strengths to your joints. Some people prefer quantity over quality, but if you have good quality then you simply won’t need as much, period.

The best part of the marijuana plant to use is the female flower tops, they are by far the most potent part of the marijuana plant. Thanks to years of marijuana growing and strain cultivation there have been many breakthroughs in different marijuana strains that determine the strength, quality and nature of the high that can vary enormously from strain to strain.

If you use imported bud you can simply break it up and crumble it into your joint rolling mix, because it is mostly forced-dried, and compressed to be transported and stored. When using better quality marijuana, make sure you handle it with care to protect the THC glands. Much of the crystals and trichomes are lost when the bud is ground up or handled roughly. Preferably use a grinder with a kief catcher, a razor blade, or sharp scissors to break up the marijuana. Store the rest of your good quality bud in a cool, dark place, mason jars work best since they are air tight. Get rid of any seeds or stems, unless you’re really desperate to use up as much weed as you can without wasting any. The seeds or stems usually have very little THC and are harsh on the throat to smoke. If you store your fresh marijuana incorrectly, mold can develop, if you encounter any mold on your marijuana, throw it away, if you smoke it you can develop infections and damage your lungs.

To get a good marijuana mix combine weed with tobacco, marijuana leaves, or a good quality herbal smoking mix to let it ‘breath’ in the joint. When using high quality marijuana strains to smoke, you should use caution until you’re familiar with the weed you’re smoking, and you may only need a little bit to achieve the effects you’re used to or want.

In commercial weed, one can find many marijuana leaves, which can be surprisingly potent, but the taste is a little off. Make sure to use only well-cured leaves and get rid of your stems before adding them to your joint rolling mix. Don’t use the larger fan leaves from the bottom of the plant because they are too harsh for joints, and would be best smoked in a water pipe.

Hashish can be found in many different parts of the world and come in very different forms and qualities. Hash is usually heated with a flame, crumbled into a power then added to the rolling mix. Good hashish should light very easily and crumble easily too. If you have soft hash you can roll it into a long thin cylinder to be placed along the length of the joint. Don’t over-fill your joints with hash or use large chunks, it will cause the joint to burn badly and most of it will be wasted.

It’s hard to find genuine marijuana resin oil, but if you can get it, it is extremely potent and often comes in the form of a brown, black or transparent oily fluid that can be smeared across the rolling papers or added to the mix.

In Europe, mostly everyone uses tobacco in their joints. Europe has easier access to high quality weed and hashish so it is often used to add taste and fill out the joint, because you don’t need that much weed for your joints if it’s really high quality, but be careful since it’s really addictive and can cause lung cancer and respiratory diseases.

Last, but not least there are many herbal smoking blends available online and in head shops. Some like, K2/K3 and the Spice products are known for having an effect like marijuana. You can greatly enhance your joints by adding these herbal blends to your marijuana mix to get a buzz of two different kinds. There are also several herbal smoking blends that have some signs of mood change, and effects, but not nearly as much as K2/K3 or marijuana by itself, but can make great additions to any joint mix.

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