burning sugar is not very nice to smoke
you could try using maple extract
its an alcohol based flavoring so the liquid will eventually evaporate leaving just the flavor and slightly moistened leaves that will burn slowly
and my vote goes for
vaporizer
bong
joint
had a b/f sit me down with a # and i learned how to roll in one night
had a friend tell me that my way of 'scrabbling' my buds was awesome -- i put them in a small strainer and first shake then sort of stir the green around -- makes for perfect tobacco flakes and you get to use all you paid for