How to roll a joint! Quick and easy guide.

Hello Steemians,

People have often told me I'm pretty great at rolling joints, so I figured why not share my technique with the friendly people of Steemit!

What do we need?

• Rolling papers: available at your average smoke shop - I like the Smoking brand, but Rizla or others will do fine!
• Filter tips (optional): also available at most smoke shops
• Some legally purchased cannabis! ;-) I'm using Gorilla Glue #4 by Elevate in this guide. (Check out my review of this delicious strain here!)
• A grinder (optional).

I noted that the filter tips are optional:
These seem to be way more popular on the European side of the globe, but I'd like to see this trend grow in the US... I find it a much cleaner way to smoke and you never have to deal with little weednuggets rolling into your mouth etc.

Getting started

If you don't have specific filtertips, you can usually use a thick kind of paper and cut off a tiny piece that's about the length/width of your thumb.
Make a couple folds on one edge (I tend to get an M-shape as you can see in the pictures) and roll it up into a tiny cylinder:

This should do just fine as a filter, so now it's time to grab some rolling paper!

Make sure the paper has the sticky edge at the top and that it's pointing upwards, so it's easy to lick when ready. I tend to place the filter on the left side, but left handed people might find it easier to put it on the right end, it's all preference.

Next up, you're going to grab a decently sized nug of your favorite flower! I always avoid smoking the stems (red circle), so I tend to pluck these a bit! If you have a grinder, this is where you're going to use it, but you can perfectly break up your weed manually. It'll just take a little longer and might make your fingers a bit sticky... :-)

Now put the result into the joint evenly.
To make it a cone shaped joint, put more material to the front (not the filter side).

Now comes the tricky part!
Hold the joint on both sides and fold it in half.

Proceed to roll it up in an upwards motion until all the weed is sealed in nice and tight.

This will require lots of practice, but I find it much easier when I never let go of the filter-side of the joint.

Avoid making kinks like these if you want to guarantee a nice, solid shape!

Once the joint has a good shape, lick the sticky part of the paper and close that baby up!

To avoid having weed fall out from the top, you can twist the little paper end.
While holding the filter end like a pencil, softly tap the joint on a hard surface to compress everything. Don't overdo it though, or it might get harder to hit your joint!

Enjoy the result!

I might make a Dtube-video as a demonstration, cause I can imagine it's not too easy to learn this through pictures... We'll see! :-)

Let me know if you have any questions and don't hesitate to share your creations!