ROOR CBD Gum Ultra Thin King Size Papers, box of 50

The CBD is in the glue, not the paper

This is the single most important thing about the product and it is buried in every listing selling it.

A rolling paper has two parts: the leaf and the gum strip that seals it. ROOR's innovation, and the thing it holds an exclusive patent on, is putting CBD into the gum. The gum is a vegan acacia gum, which is the same natural adhesive used across quality rolling papers, and the CBD is integrated into it.

The leaf itself is ordinary ROOR paper. Whichever material you choose, hemp, rice or unbleached, the paper is the paper. What makes this line different from ROOR's standard papers is one narrow strip of adhesive.

The brand explains why that was hard to do. CBD is not soluble in water, and rolling paper gum is a water-based system, which is why several manufacturers reportedly tried and failed to make it work before ROOR did.

So the product name is doing something misleading, even if unintentionally. Read as written, CBD Infused Rolling Papers suggests you are buying an infused leaf. You are buying a normal leaf with an infused glue strip, and that changes what you should expect from it.

Nobody publishes how much CBD is in them

We looked at six retailer listings across the UK and Europe, plus our own distributor and the brand's own material. Not one states a CBD content.

There is no figure by weight, no percentage, nothing per booklet and nothing per leaf. There is also no certificate of analysis published anywhere for these papers, which is unusual for a product sold specifically on its cannabinoid.

The most any source states is that the gum contains CBD and no THC. That is a qualitative claim, not a quantity.

There is a second gap, and it is the more interesting one. The only claim the brand publishes about whether the CBD stays put concerns licking, specifically that CBD can remain in the paper even after it is licked to seal. That addresses saliva. It says nothing about heat.

A rolling paper is burned. What happens to a cannabinoid in a gum strip at the temperature of a burning paper is not something anyone selling these has published, and we are not going to invent it. If you are buying these for the CBD rather than for the paper, that is the question to ask, and at the time of writing nobody in the supply chain has answered it.

We have asked our distributor for a figure and a lab report. If either arrives, it goes on this page.

Three papers, and they are materials rather than flavours

The three options on this listing are not flavours, whatever the selector calls them. They are three different paper materials, all carrying the same CBD-infused gum, and the difference between them is how the leaf behaves and where it comes from.

Organic hemp is grown and produced in France and is the most robust of the three to handle. Rice is milled from rice cultivated in the Camargue in southern France and is guaranteed GMO free; rice papers are the thinnest and the slowest burning, and the least forgiving if you roll loosely. Unbleached is made from wood fibre from sustainably managed forests and is the light brown paper people usually mean when they say unbleached.

All three share the same construction. They are ultra thin to the point of being partially translucent, they contain no calcium carbonate, no dyes and no additives, and they carry ROOR's watermark pattern, which is a texture pressed into the leaf that makes it burn evenly and slowly rather than running down one side.

All three were available at the time of writing.

What ultra thin and watermarked actually mean

Two of the phrases on this pack are doing real work and are worth unpacking, because most paper listings use them as decoration.

Ultra thin is measurable in how the paper behaves rather than in a number anyone prints. A thinner leaf contributes less of its own taste and less ash, which is the entire point of buying a premium paper. The trade-off is that it tears more easily and punishes a heavy hand, which is why the hemp option exists.

The watermark is a pattern pressed into the paper during manufacture. It is not decorative. Varying the density of the leaf in a controlled pattern is what stops a paper running, which is when one side burns ahead of the other and you lose half of what you rolled. On a very thin paper that control matters more, not less.

No calcium carbonate is worth noting too. Chalk is used as a filler and a whitener in lower-grade papers and it adds to what you inhale without adding anything you want. Its absence here is a genuine specification rather than marketing.

The papers are made in France, which is where most of the world's quality rolling paper has been produced for well over a century.

The legal position, and the line retailers keep repeating

A rolling paper with CBD in its gum is not a food and is not sold as one. The FSA Novel Foods regime governs ingestible CBD such as oils, gummies and drinks, and no rolling paper appears on the public list. One trade listing puts it plainly and correctly: these are not to be consumed as a dietary supplement, are not a substitute for medication, and are not for use against any illness or medical condition. We agree with all of that.

Where the category goes wrong is on the cannabinoid limit. One UK retailer selling these states that they hold under a fifth of a per cent THC and are therefore within the UK legal limit. That is the wrong test, and it is the eleventh time this loop has found it on a UK page.

That percentage is a Home Office rule about growing a hemp crop. It describes a field, not a finished product. The consumer test is a limit of one milligram of controlled cannabinoids per container, which covers THC, THCV and CBN, and applies regardless of the container's size.

For a paper whose gum is stated to contain no THC, the question is straightforward. It is still worth stating the correct test rather than repeating a farming rule, because the same buyer will meet that claim again on a product where it matters enormously.

Supplied as a box of 50 booklets

This listing is the wholesale case rather than a single booklet. A box holds 50 booklets of 32 leaves in the paper you choose.

That is a lot of paper, and it is the right purchase only if you already know which of the three materials suits you. Rice, hemp and unbleached behave differently enough that picking wrong means a box you do not enjoy using.

Some retailers sell this line as papers and tips together and others as papers alone. We have not confirmed which our listing ships as, so if tips matter to you, ask us before ordering rather than assuming.

Storage is undemanding. Keep the box closed and somewhere dry. Rolling paper does not spoil in any meaningful way, but a gum strip that has absorbed damp will not seal properly, and that applies to a CBD-infused gum exactly as it does to a plain one.

How they compare with the other papers we stock

We carry several paper lines and this is the only one with anything in the gum, which is the whole reason to choose it. On every other measure it is competing on paper quality.

Monkey King's hemp papers are the straightforward everyday option and come in a 50-pack. Its ultra thin rolls are the continuous-roll format, which lets you tear whatever length you want rather than working to a fixed leaf. Juicy Jay's paper rolls do the same in a flavoured version. None of those has CBD in the gum.

Who should buy something else

If you are buying these for the CBD, think carefully. Nobody publishes how much is in the gum, nobody publishes what survives being burned, and the strip is a small fraction of the paper. Buy them because they are excellent French papers with an interesting gum, not because you expect a cannabinoid dose from them. If you want CBD, the oil and gummy aisles are linked below and they come with stated milligrams.

If you have never rolled with an ultra thin paper, do not start with the rice. It is the thinnest and least forgiving of the three, and the hemp option is the one that survives learning.

If you want a single booklet rather than 50, this is the wrong listing. Ask us before committing to a box.

And if you need tips supplied, we cannot confirm that this listing includes them, so either buy tips separately or choose one of the Monkey King listings that definitely has them.