Hemp flower (AKA CBD flower) is another term for dried and cured hemp buds, which is where you’ll find the highest concentration of CBD, minor cannabinoids, terpenes, and other phytochemicals. 

Hemp flowers look and smell like marijuana because they’re technically the same Cannabis sativa plant — The main distinction between the two is the THC content, which is the main psychotropic cannabinoid in marijuana. 

According to the 2018 US Farm Bill, legal hemp crops cannot contain more than 0.3% THC, or it’s considered marijuana. Hemp crops are usually bred to contain higher levels of CBD, but they can come in similar terpene profiles for the same aroma and flavor profiles of popular marijuana strains. 

Hemp flowers used in pre-rolls and hemp cigarettes are treated differently than those used for extracts. Only the best buds are selected and cured to leverage the full flavor for an enjoyable smoking experience. 

CBD hemp cigarettes must contain less than 0.3% THC, which means most people don’t experience a high from smoking it.

The most common effect of smoking hemp cigarettes is a sense of relaxation and pain relief.

CBD Hemp cigarettes are technically pre-rolls — but they have semantic differences that make them two separate categories.

You’re buying a product that contains a hemp flower that’s conveniently rolled for you to smoke right out of the package. When most people think of “pre-rolls,” a cone-shaped joint with a paper filter comes to mind.

Pre-rolled joints look like your traditional plain jane marijuana smokes, whereas these CBD cigarettes look like tobacco cigarettes—minus the tobacco and other nasty chemicals.

Another distinction is that pre-rolled joints are typically hand-rolled, and CBD cigarettes are machine rolled. You’ll notice that when you smoke a CBD cigarette, it burns evenly and is much less prone to “canoeing,” where one side of the cigarette cylinder is burning faster than everything else.

There are a few pros and cons to using smokable forms of hemp as opposed to edibles, concentrates, or other forms of CBD.

Smoking hemp flowers is the fastest method of feeling the effects of CBD, and it’s one of the oldest applications of the plant’s use for medicine and ceremony. Most edible CBD products like oils and gummies can take upwards of an hour before you begin to feel it, unless you get a company that has “fast acting technology”, which can then speed up the affect to less than 15 minutes. 

When you smoke the dried herb, you deliver the active cannabinoids and terpenes into the bloodstream via the lungs within minutes, bypassing the digestive system and liver metabolism where many of the compounds are destroyed before entering the bloodstream. 

For many smokers, the act of lighting up a stick is often more difficult to break than the chemical dependence itself.

CBD has a calming effect that can help people who tend to smoke when feeling anxious, curb the habit of addictive nicotine cigarettes. Not only are hemp cigarettes less conspicuous as a rolled hemp joint, but they also feel closer to a cigarette. 

One study found that CBD helped to curb the cravings for nicotine cigarettes compared to the group who abstained from smoking.

Hemp cigarettes should only contain one ingredient, high-quality hemp flower. When vaping first hit the scene, many people believed it was a healthier alternative to smoking.

However, this theory has been debunked after a spike in vaping injuries and illnesses from bad vape juice formulas and devices. Some ingredients found in vape juices like vitamin E acetate are linked with lipoid pneumonia, which can be a fatal condition.