How this Guy Earns Up to $7,000 for Rolling Joints

Bet you now wish you said “rolling joints” when you were asked what you wanted to do when you grew up as a kid. And yes, Tony Greenhand did actually get paid 7 grand to roll some spectacular joints. You might ask, “Why $7000 for joints?”, but to be fair, Tony has, through the last decade, rolled some of the greatest and most artistic joints in the world!

Tony Greenhand has taken the cannabis world to new highs with his elaborate, smokeable art. He has turned his talent for rolling joints into an amazing source of income selling smokeable works of art. His art has now evolved into his personal brand which he has popularized across Instagram and Snapchat. It is so great that he gets to make big money doing something he enjoys. In an interview with Vocatic, Tony revealed that he charges thousands of dollars for commissioned joints. One of his largest commissions has been for a client who asked him to craft a bunch of joints that looked like weapons. He charged $7,000!

In another interview with Buzzfeed, Tony revealed that when he first started creative rolling, there weren’t many people out there who were doing it too. The people who did stuck to singular concepts and design styles. He admitted that each new joint he crafts is a challenge for him because he uses fresh concepts for each and he likes to try his hand at new things all the time. For instance, he has made some joints with working parts, or removable parts. He has also incorporated fuses, oils, or skewers in some of his joints to help guide the burn when they get lit up. He further asserted that he could totally make the same designs every day, but that really was not his style.

His art form has really been an evolving one for him. “Most of my days, I sit at home and I roll joints and I smoke them and it’s a good life,” Tony further told Vocativ. “Now it seems pretty basic when I say it like that. But I guess there’s more to it.” There genuinely is more to it than meets the eye because the smokable art that Tony makes takes a lot of time to complete. Tony can spend hours seated working on a particular commission because he constantly challenges himself to new imaginative heights. Plus, he’s also a perfectionist so that contributes to the time consumption of his artistic joints.

Tony has admitted that while he has always been an art guy, his joint rolling game hasn’t always been this great. Recalling the first joint he ever rolled, Tony confessed to being rather mortified at the memory. He was a teen smoker living in rural Washington state, and in his friend group, it was a friend of his—not him—that was the group’s designated roller. One day while hanging out in one of their parent’s garages, Tony got a sudden shot of courage and decided he wanted to try rolling himself.

His first-ever joint was a mess. Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. He had left too much saliva on the rolling paper and the shape of the joint turned out horribly deformed. While he had essentially been very embarrassed by the failure, he didn’t let it deter him. The following weekend, Tony got himself an ounce of weed and spent the entire couple of days practicing. He used up every last spot of the ounce to roll joint after joint until, by the end of the weekend, he had perfected rolling symmetrical, cone-shaped joints.

After bouncing back from that first humbling experience, Tony dropped out of high school and dabbled for a while in the underground weed market that spanned throughout the Pacific Northwest. He mostly grew marijuana and bred cannabis during that time. Plus, with his reputation for making perfect joints, he also became the go-to guy for joints among his grower peers.

Time went by and he started experimenting with more elaborate joint shapes. The first piece of smokable art he ever crafted was a rocket ship, which today, he’s not very impressed by when he thinks back on it. Afterward, he graduated to crude little joints shaped as alligators and dragons which he used to continue honing his skill.

In 2013, a friend urged him to post a photo of a Sherlock Holmes-style pipe he had made on Reddit, a site Tony had never even heard of before then. The reception of his work on the social media platform was astonishing for Tony to say the least. Many mutual weed enthusiasts were mind-blown by his artistry and it only ever went up for Tony from then on.

That was how a business was born for Tony. Sometimes, he finds himself juggling 5 or 6 commissions simultaneously. Some of his projects take less than an hour, and others can span over the course of a week. There are, however, a couple of tricky aspects to his trade. When he finishes working on a client’s order, he can’t exactly drop the joint in the mail or ship it through UPS. This means that clients either have to meet him in Oregon where he lives or pay to have him come to them. The other option is for him to send a hollowed-out sculpture, which the buyer fills later on.

If a client wants, they can provide their own weed to be used in their commissioned joint. If not, Tony procures the product from local growers of high-quality strains that cost between $150 and $175 an ounce. Tony’s standard labor rate is $50 an hour, although that can change depending on the size of the project, what it will involve, and how invested Tony finds himself in the concept for the commission. He normally only accepts cash, checks, or Bitcoin to avoid the snags of conducting cannabis transactions on regular payment platforms. He is also not opposed to collecting valuables like diamonds, exotic animal parts, fossils, jarred specimens, or anything precious like that.

Crafting extraordinary joints is now Tony’s full-time job and he mostly caters to weed royalty. Tony has declined to divulge how much he earns annually, but has admitted that it’s enough to “live comfortably”. His Instagram page now has 380,000 followers, and many more are subscribed to his Snapchat page. He recently began hosting a show called “Let’s Roll with Tony Greenhand” streaming on Roku Originals, where he designs and builds smokable creations specifically tailored for stoner celebrity clients.

Before creative pioneers like Tony Greenhand came onto the cannabis scene in the community, joint rolling was majorly conventional in terms of techniques and design. But now—owing also to the gradual legalization of cannabis and social media—art and innovation have found their way into the weed subculture, elevating smoking from being a basic experience to something fun and highly aesthetically pleasing. As Tony has now forged the way, many joint rollers are now following in his footsteps and incorporating creativity into the designs of the joints they roll.

Tony is truly a man with green hands. Here are some of the most incredible smokable weed sculptures he’s crafted over the years:

The Weapon Arsenal

One of Tony’s biggest commissions in the past in which the commissioner—a young and super-rich firearms enthusiast from Florida—paid $7,000 for a small arsenal of large marijuana blunts made to look like weapons including a grenade, a golden Glock, and an AK-47. This commission gained Tony tons of media recognition.

The Rose Joint

Out on his first date with his girlfriend, a weed photographer called Courtney, Tony showed up with a gift for her—a joint in the shape of a rose. The pair met at Colorado’s High Times Cannabis Cup in 2014 and were inseparable ever since. They are both proud members of the cannabis community and comfortable in their lines of work, something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Thankfully, a lot has changed over the years. As a result of the gradual widespread decriminalization of cannabis, recreational and medical marijuana is getting legalized in more and more US states, including Oregon where Tony lives. The marijuana industry in the US has been estimated to reach a value of $19.89 billion in 2021 and is projected to pull in $43 billion by 2025.

Ode to the High Priest of Weed, Tommy Chong

This was a portrait sculpture of Tommy Chong, a joint roll that was commissioned by the comedian and legendary head himself.

Other popular works done by Tony include:

Smokable pizza slices, Spiderman, Pikachu, T-Rex, a peacock, and so many more.

Rolling a joint is an art. Most groups of stoners have a designated roller that can usually make the perfect joint. However, Tony Greenhand has completely shattered the idea of “a perfect joint” with his professional and fascinating weed artistry. His story is one that teaches perseverance and to harness your gifts the most you can, no matter how huge the odds against you may seem.

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