about your questions with rolling materials, nothing is better than just staright, normal rolling papers. I started smoking about a month and a half ago, and i remmeber aving these same questions. if you're REALLY desperate for papers, use something thick so it won't burn quickly. but what i did was just beg someone to let me use their pipe. if this is your first time, and you smoke a J, you probably won't even come close to getting high because you probably didn't roll/smoke it correctly. Snatch someones pipe, and use that, then you can judge for yourself later on which you feel more comfortable using