Rolling Papers Vs. Blunt Wraps - A Win-Win

It’s the ultimate showdown, a battle of pre-roll titans where EVERYBODY WINS: Rolling Papers Vs. Blunt Wraps!

Who will take home the belt? What wrap will reign supreme? Which pre-roll gets GOATED?

It’s Rolling Paper vs. Blunt Wraps for all the marbles!

Let’s meet the contenders!

Your Tale of the Tape

Made of wood pulp and weighing in at 12 gsm - or grams per square meter - we have the originator, the OG, always refined never maligned, clean and flavor-free but always in good taste, it’s ROLLING PAPER.

And in this corner, with a richer flavor and slower burning style, made from 100% European Hemp and weighing in at 60gsm, please welcome BLUNT WRAPS!

But seriously (and clearly we’re very serious people), these are two very different ways to pack up a pre-roll, so let’s get into the science a little bit to see how each of these are made, what they are made from and why they both make a great pre-roll.

Rolling Papers

The history of rolling papers begins way back in 16th century Spain when smoking was a luxury and people used pages from old books or newspapers to roll up tobacco. Then, in the mid-18th century, one Spanish company began making papers specifically for rolling.

Like any paper, rolling papers are made with wood pulp (though there are hemp, flax and other varieties, we’re going to keep it simple here today...). The wood pulp is refined to remove what is called lignan, a cellular polymer that helps give plants their structure. The more it is refined, the lighter the rolling paper’s color, though to get to bright white, the paper has to go through a “bleaching” process that, here at DaySavers, is done using hydrogen peroxide and NEVER chlorine bleach.

The rolling paper booklet as we know it today was invented in France in 1894 by Zig-Zag allowing people to use one paper at a time. By the time the 20th century rolled around, the rolling paper had become a common commodity, moving easily from cigarettes to joints.

In the modern era, as legal cannabis began to spread across the landscape, rolling papers broke free of the booklet and began to be made into pre-rolled cones, allowing the pre-roll to become the most-sold cannabis product by units in 2025 and simplifying the whole shebang for home-rollers and packers, to pack their own pre-rolls with ease.

Blunt Wraps

If a joint is a cannabis cigarette, then a blunt is a cannabis cigar. It’s the joint’s bigger, bolder cousin, traditionally made by wrapping cannabis in a tobacco leaf taken off a machine-made “blunt” cigar, which use a single leaf as outer wrap.

Now, humans have been wrapping tobacco in tobacco leaves for as long as we’ve known about the plant, but the “blunt wrap” as we know it didn’t develop until the late 20th century, as hip hop pushed blunt culture into the mainstream and companies began to respond with pre-packaged wraps.

Most tobacco blunt wraps, including those used to make the cigarillos commonly split to make blunts, are usually made from what is called “homogenized tobacco leaf.” It’s a mix of (mostly) tobacco and other ingredients used to help roll it into a sheet.

But as the dangers of tobacco and nicotine became better understood, many blunt smokers began to move away from tobacco wraps, looking for a less dangerous alternative to wrap their reefer.

Enter the hemp wrap, an outer wrap made in the same basic fashion and to the same basic proportions as homogenized tobacco leaf, but using hemp as its plant base. The practice continued to grow as states legalized cannabis, but regulators made it illegal to sell cannabis products combined with tobacco, effectively ending the pre-rolled tobacco leaf blunt before it even started.

But the hemp wrap brings the blunt fully back around to origins as the cannabis cigar because hemp and cannabis are literally the same plant with a legal, chemical distinction. So now, like an actual cigar, you can wrap your cannabis in what is essentially cannabis leaves with a hemp wrap. The result is a smooth, slow smoke that looks and feels like a classic blunt.

And though it is the most popular, hemp is not the only non-tobacco alternative blunt wrap. In fact, it’s not the only blunt wrap that uses hemp. There are also hybrid blunt wraps, which are made using more hemp fibers and don’t rely on water bonds like traditional hemp wrap so they don’t dry out and get brittle the same way.

There are also blunt wraps made from tea leaves and other botanical options like lemongrass, lavender, chamomile and goji berry, as well as wraps made from natural materials like palm leaves (though we don’t recommend palm leaves as they are hard to find consistent clean, sources).

Let's Go to the Judges

So here’s the thing: both rolling papers and blunt wraps are great. Paper burns a little lighter, but blunt wraps burn a little slower. Rolling papers are flavor-free, while blunt wraps have an earthier taste that usually compliments the flower. Rolling papers come in booklets of dozens of leaves, and blunt wraps usually come in packs of one, three or four.

There are rolling papers in multiple sizes and widths, each able to hold different amounts of flower, as well as different-sized pre-rolled cones or tubes, providing a near endless array of options.

Blunt wraps on the other hand usually come in one main size and width, meaning that if you want anything other than a classic cigarillo-sized blunt, you have to do some trimming.

So it's always trade off.

And in our Main Event, with each contender going the distance, we’re going to have to go to the judge’s scorecards.

The joint smoker has scored in favor of rolling papers!

The blunt judge has blunt wraps ahead!

And our tiebreaker judge ... appears to be off getting some munchies. COME ON MAN YOU HAD ONE JOB.

Anyway, the real winner is you, the pre-roll smoker. Because both rolling papers and blunt wraps are a great way to Enjoy Your Day.

Find your favorite today.