The weird world of creative cannabis rolling

To the uninitiated, rolling a joint can be a challenge. It’s a serious skill – a craft so complex that machines can now actually do the job for you. There are YouTube tutorials, how-to guides, and a 243-page book dedicated to the subject. Even Waka Flocka Flame, a seasoned smoker, is willing to shell out $50,000 a year for his own full-time blunt roller. It is an art form. But what happens when the art goes too far?

Thanks to Instagram, we now have a pretty good idea. Over the last few months, a trend for competitive “creative” joint rolling has smoked out the site; filling it with hundreds of smokeable weed sculptures. There are scorpions, Spidermen, dinosaurs, Eiffel Towers, and Pokémon. One particularly prominent member of the movement, the “professional joint roller” Tony Greenhand, took the skill to the next level with a 4.2-pound creation that was...

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