Joint

A joint is a hand-rolled or machine-rolled cannabis cigarette consisting of ground flower wrapped in a thin rolling paper, typically finished with a crutch at the mouth end and containing no tobacco. A standard joint holds about 0.5–1 gram of flower and burns for roughly ten minutes. Common paper sizes run from single-wide through king-size; papers may be made from rice, hemp, wood pulp, or flax. The user moistens the adhesive gum strip to seal the cylinder or cone, lights one end, and draws through the other. The term entered English in the late nineteenth century (from the French joint, meaning "joined") and was first documented as slang for a marijuana cigarette in 1938. Regional synonyms include J, jay, doobie, and pinner (a thin joint). Joints are distinguished from blunts (tobacco-leaf wraps), spliffs (contain tobacco filler), and commercially produced pre-rolls (same form, dispensary origin). → See also: Flower (Part 3), Papers, Crutch. ---