I live very close to NYC on Long Island, should I be looking out?
YES! Please keep in mind NYC & all other cities where this was reported are huge places & will never only have one variety to choose from. No need to get scared just keep an eye out for the funk.
after smoking for a while & then not smoking for a day trying to get to sleep will be a pain in the ass. I feel this can be attributed to melatonin depletion & the all natural over the counter sleep aid melatonin 30mins before bed should enable you to sleep without waking up a few hours later with intense dreams & cold sweats when sustaining from use. Weirdly enough i have seen one other person vomit after smoking that for a while & then stopping.
What do you mean by "bite/steam" when smoked from a bong?
Initially aside form a funky smell this was my first tell tale sign. Im spoiled & always prefer water filtration, i smoked some of that through a 3 chamber water filtrating device & it produced smoke along with a vapor which had a distinct painful sting/bite on inhale after passing through the water(Hence why i believe the contaminant is non water soluble & not THC), this was not present in blunts etc. Only hold a hit for a second & then your coughing murder in a non Thc lung expansive way. look for a gray mucus being produced from the smoking after a few days.
I was under the impression of "grit weed" as mainly a UK phenomenon & didnt think any samples had been obtained in the USA.. Unfortunately, i have to reevaluate my school of thought on that, it is clearly gritty yes but wasnt the grit sand & glass pieces? If so this is different since the contaminant seems active.
also very distinctly sticky in a non usual THC sorta way, very odd indeed.
One hit will leave you with the classic "head between temples expands" feeling & even leads to seeing colors with no tolerance. I've smoked many a marijuana sample with over 20% THC & as long as it has this chemical smell/taint its distinctly different. The best i guess to describe it would be "NON-ORGANIC" but not in the fertilizer sense.
When i came across some of this crap the smell was getting to me so i water cured a few grams & the water became a dirty yellow in minutes, i switched the water out & replaced it about 20 times through out a week & the buds that came out were much different! I literally washed them out but still they contained a wee bit of taint but i did succeed in most of the off white sketchy grain things .. Their is also specs(very tiny) that shine very bright like glass or something but again is clearly different from your average trich which towers over these things with a mushroom like head as oppose to being stationary up close & on the leaf.
Thanks for reading & not trying to give down the "never can anything be laced" speech-I usually give that one myself!
Im working on obtaining pictures from specific locations - if you come across something similar please take a pic preferably in macro & submit.
May be corrosive, feels a little like it causes irritation to the mucus membranes in your skin.. To my knowledge their has been no hospital visits. The fact of the matter is this has made its way to medical patients who do not deserve such treatment from dumb ass commercial growers in it for the money putting good people's health in harms way for the wrap of having a potent product(which they clearly do not know how to produce naturally).