Relearning to roll with Flower by Edie Parker papers

Full disclosure: The joint pictured above was not hand-rolled.

I found this lovely pack of Flower by Edie Parker papers lurking in the far recesses of my stash drawer a couple weeks back, mindlessly discarded like so many before it. Sad truth is, I’ve amassed a stack of unused rolling papers over the past decade as a result of arrested development. My joint rolling skills haven’t progressed much from my early teens, either out of a lack of necessity or just sheer laziness. Some 20-plus years since I started smoking, I’ve decided it’s time for a change. This year, I’m taking matters, and papers, into my own hands. Spurred on by the memory of a friend’s 60-something mother sitting shirtless in her living room rolling an impeccable, smokable cylinder one-handed, I’ve made it my goal to roll the perfect joint in 2020. 

Things got off to a bumpy start. My joints were bulbous, uneven sticks, smokable but not particularly pretty. But over the past few days, they’ve grown more even, and the precious little flowers printed on these papers no longer look mangled and distorted. Not perfect but, hey, they smoke, and who knows, with enough practice, maybe one day I’ll be that topless grandma rolling one-handed joints for an audience of awestruck 20-somethings.

Rolling Papers: Flower by Edie Parker
Photo and Styling: The Grass Agency