09 avril 2009
Rolling a cigarette with tobacco
A rolling machine is a machine that is designed to roll either tobacco
or cannabis into individual cigarettes or spliffs for the operator. To
roll a spliff with cannabis you must break up your smoking material as
well as remove any stems so they won't puncture the paper.
Rolling a
cigarette with tobacco does not require prep work because the leaf is
already shredded. Once the material is ready you open up the rolling
machine by sliding one of the rollers up and over; this exposes a
channel where the material is loaded. Care must be taken to place a
uniform amount of product in the channel or the burn rate will change
as the cigarette is smoked. When ready the roller is slid back into
position and locks into place. The product is cradled and confined in a
round space and gets rolled when the user begins to turn one of the
rollers. After a few turns a single sheet of rolling paper is fed into
the back of the channel with the side missing the glue going in first.
When rolled carefully the paper will make a complete revolution in the
channel and will wrap around and under itself. At this point the user
licks the glue on the rolling paper and continues to roll the rest of
the paper in. When the roller is moved out of position once again a
perfectly rolled cigarette is exposed. This process is considerably
easier than rolling by hand.