My Daily Nugget: What's Burning??

So the Cardinals are meeting to decide the new Pope and after each vote they burn the ballots and create either white smoke or black smoke depending on whether or not a new Pope has been found. I wanna know exactly what they are burning to create this white and black smoke. Sure they say it's the ballots and quite possibly they throw something on the fire to make it a certain color, but really it could be anything. How do we know these old freaks aren't tucked away for 3 weeks getting blazed and watching Cheech and Chong movies?? White smoke, black smoke, kine bud, northern lights....it's all the same thing. Smoke the KB if we got a new Pope, burn the schwag if we don't. I think it would be great if after every vote they don't come up with a decision they throw one of the Cardinals on the fire. Red smoke means no Pope yet, and the field just got smaller! Either way I hope they're drunk and I'm putting my money on the Italian guy!!