Rolling Papers were invented in Spain, not France. The French didn't trade tobacco with the new world until a lifetime after the Spanish already were. In 1660, the Lacroix family began producing the papers; in 1736 they obtained a mill and founded the Lacroix Rolling Paper company. The first recorded use of a joint was in Mexico. Though cannabis had been used as a medicine for a long time, it seems that the joint was first used for recreational purposes. It was a pharmacist at University of Guadalajara who first mentioned that laborers were mixing cannabis with tobacco in their cigarettes.Memphis 2022