Cone or straight joint? You’ve got a side. Everybody’s got a side. Nobody’s ever had proof. So a research team packed a dozen of them with the exact same weed, smoked every one on a machine programmed to puff more like a cannabis consumer than a cigarette smoker, and weighed what came out the other end. Here’s the kicker: you were both right.
You know how this goes. One guy loves a pre-rolled cone. The next guy swears by a straight cylindrical joint and won’t hear otherwise. And it never gets settled, because the only thing anybody’s ever brought to the fight is how sure they sound. It’s a two-in-the-morning debate that’s dead by lunch.
Not anymore. There’s finally data. A research team led by Drs. Riley Kirk, Miyabe Shields and Allison Justice, with Twinkle Paryani, took one jar of flower and split it between seven pre-rolled cones and five cylinder joints. Then they burned every single one on a lab machine set to a cannabis-specific puffing profile instead of the old cigarette settings, caught the smoke on a filter, weighed it, counted the pulls, and clocked how hot each one ran. And the big result is almost too fair: the machine detected no significant difference in the total THC or terpenes captured from either format. The difference was in how that material got divided across each puff.
The Cambustion machine. Source: HBI Innovations Smoke Study, Kirk and Shields LLC.
Similar totals. What changes is how they arrive. The cone loads more into every puff and finishes in fewer pulls. The straight joint takes that same weed and stretches it out, thinner, over more pulls. Neither one gave up a bigger total. They’re just two different speeds for smoking the …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
