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Your feelings on low-grade MJ and its users? (And my essay on SCHWAG)

this is pretty simply really.
obviously i want the best possible cannabis i can get, but of course if i can only get mids then of course im gunna smoke that, i smoke the best of whatever is available at the given time.

i dont think anyone hates mids per say, it's just that what idiot is going to want less potent weed and have to smoke more of it. Inhaling and exhaling smoke isnt that much fun honestly lol. It's fun when you're a teenager and you just learnt, but come on, inhaling and exhaling smoke, like taking a breath i dont see whats so fun about it. If i got the same high from rubbing buds on my skin id do that lol, fuck smoking, dirty shit it is.(maybe time to buy a vape?)
 
Lots of people enjoy smoking. The taste, the smell, the ritual of packing a bowl or rolling a joint, those are important to some people. Some of my friends in their 30's and 40's love the act of smoking more than the actual high.

I'm like you, though. I never liked smoking, but I love the effects. I mostly quit smoking years ago, opting for edibles and drinkables instead. I got my Extreme Q vaporizer earlier this year, and I love it. It tastes better, feels better, and doesn't seem "dirty" like smoking always did. Once you get the hang of it, it's more efficient too. A gram will get me high for much longer with the vaporizer compared to smoking. Afterwards, I get high again when I eat the vaporized buds. I keep the vaped buds in a little jar for use in various recipes. Opening the jar smells like delicious weed toast, nothing like the nasty ash I'd get if I had smoked it.
 
Pegasus said:
While we're on this topic, there are plenty of high-grade strains that just have an unpleasant high (IMO). Blue Dream is the one that always jumps to mind when I have this discussion.
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I didn't understand this concept at first, but it's definitely true. I was surprised the first time I had bud that got me wasted but wasn't fun. I think some breeders select plants for maximum potency without considering the quality of the high. For me, the type of high is the most important attribute I use when selecting plants to keep for the long term.

Some of this is subjective, too. Cinderella 99 is my favorite strain of all time, but some people hate it. It makes them anxious and paranoid, while it makes me energetic and happy. The same plant can have different effects depending on individual perception.
 
i've grown lots of schwag seeds in my time,...from weed that I really liked. More often than not, the grow seemed to be dominated by hermaphroditic tendencies...rarely have I grown "mutt" seeds into anything worth writing home about..
 
m314 said:
If you think the schwag you're buying has a special type of high, you should save any seeds you find. If they're dried and stored right, at least some of them could stay good for years. Maybe you'll have the opportunity to grow them out at some point in the future. If you grow them right and cure the buds properly, you should get buds with a similar high with better taste and potency.

I think some of the potency and taste is lost through the mass production and packaging techniques used by the Mexican outdoor growers. They have some good genetics, but if they're harvesting hundreds of pounds they don't have time to treat the buds the way they need to be treated to maximize their potential.
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For sure, I actually know some folks who get the same schwag as me and use the seeds to grow a few plants for personal use. Schwag seeds grow into very nice strong mind fucking sativa, and the plants are huge, often up to 1/2 lb per plant. I've heard the ones in Mexico are often allowed to grow 20 or 30 ft high, and I believe it. The genetics the schwag growers use are quite good, but like you said it gets very damaged in transit and during packing.

Schwag just gives me this fucked up, cloudy headed high that no other weed provides. Strong couch lock indica is nice but still doesn't provide exactly the high I want. Schwag does.

If I had the money 80% of my smoke would be dank, but I'd still want some schwag.

Does anyone know where the term schwag comes from, out of curiosity?
 
I think you guys can be a little preoccupied with these 'schwag', 'mids' and 'dank' classifications you give weed. If I want to describe some weed I'll be more specific and say for example that it's resinous and covered in trichomes with a pungent skunky odour which gives a couchlock stone rather than a soaring high.

I don't know much about Mexican weed beyond the old landraces, but I would imagine some of those possibly still exist and so growing the seeds would give a good representation of the strain, if done indoors properly or in the right climate where they don't turn to a mouldy, soggy mess. Otherwise growing seed from any other weed, even 'dank' will probably be from nanas and so give you mostly hermaphrodite plants (like pap's experiences prove).

But anyway the phenotype of a plant is influenced by many genetic traits, so you can have a dense nugget that's highly resinous and smells great but gives a horrible high, just like you can get a straggly, whispy twiggy bit of shitty looking weed that blows your mind and is more potent and enjoyable than most 'dank' strains. Breeders have been breeding for 'bag appeal' for too long and ignoring the most important traits that we all enjoy and want, creating a lot of great looking strains that sell well but smoke poorly. I think this puts a spanner in the works really for that rudimentary and limited grading sytem.
 
I smoke shwag once in awhile. Its more shake then anything else, meaning trimmings from dank home grown. ridiculously cheap, great for joints/blunts, and even making hash. Herb is herb no matter what the quality
 
The last time I smoked schwag or shake was when I was fifteen.... Haven't since. It just doesn't make any sense if you can get better weed than the above. Also if I'm broke and the only money I have for weed is to buy some low grade marijuana then I'm not going to. Yeah I may smoke a lot of weed but its not like I'm addicted to it like I was to opiates... Shit if I don't have the money for good weed ill wait until I do. And not once have I smoked some dank looking stuff and the high ended up being not that great.
 
Where I am people would laugh if i asked about shwag. Thats just the way it is and plus around here the best quality buds I can get for the same price and quantity for price that i could get shwag elsewhere that ive lived. I prefer to smoke joints or spliffs and I do so with the dankest shit i can find. But i also have major back and hip pain so thats probably part of it for me. I personally cant stand shwag anymore because it tastes terrible hurts my throat and puts me to sleep and makes me munch out everytime.
 
used to love to buy schwag/(lower mids) by the 1/4 oz or more - then after stocking up i'd love to smoke out all my friends constantly; where ever we went or what ever party we were at i'd roll spliffs or some joints to share and never ask anything in return.

I've always liked to share the wealth - so when i was broke and could only afford the schwag-mids then that's what i bought - no one ever complained when i was offering them joints or spliffs - we all had the common goal.

i've since moved a great distance and my financial situataion is a bit better - but i still just love rolling joints and sharing.
 
I actually smoked a couple joints of shitty mids with a guy at work yesterday, although I don't usually smoke anything but dank. I always tell people I don't smoke shwag because it makes me tired and feel shitty, but that wasn't the case at all. It was just a complete waste, and it made me feel bad that this guy was wasting his weed smoking it with me because I have a tolerance (although he just wanted to get me back for smoking with him, albeit something good). So, I'm going back to my shwag-free ways, but now I realize it's because it's a waste of other people's weed, not because I'm a weed-snob.

~CTdopeLove
 
i dont hate mids or its users. i definitely dislike mids though haha. but i attribute this to my G+ a day habit with dank. when you have a tolerance for good weed mids just doesnt do anything for you, like CTdope was saying.
 
schwag is to heads as ritalin is to coke. all they do is make me wish i had the real thing. not saying this to be a snob or a jerk or look down on anyone, but i would rather be sober than smoke schwag.
 
Now my question: What are your feelings on low-grade marijuana, also known as schwag and reggies? I think it's GROSS lol. It doesn't smell good, it feels gross when you break it up with your fingers, usually like 30% of your bag is just seeds and stems loll. I honestly don't know anyone who smokes that poopy stuff anymore..

Do you look down on people who smoke this type of weed, and what is your general impression of them? They either are poor and don't work, or they haven't been smoking long enough to have good connections. Good weed is everywhere you go.. you just have to find it.

Do you absolutely refuse to smoke schwag? I'd turn it down ANYTIME. It doesn't EVER taste good.. it's like burnt lawn clippings and it straight up burns your eyes and nose. You're then high for 30 minutes and need a nap... headies doesn't make me tired but people say the opposite... I also think part of the fun is getting new pretty nuggets, looking at them, and getting a different variety of stuff that actually tastes good... I mean as far as I remember all mids taste the same... nasty...
 
Mexibrickz

Brick- I used to love buying bricked bud when I was in high school, I could get an oz rather cheaply. The mexibrick was a nice addition to my outlandish strains I had very little of (cuz i couldn't stop smoking em all!) Having a brick of schwag to supplement my dwindling stash of northern lights and ak47, I was quite content. The last time I smoked schwag was at a friends birthday party, his brother got him a half pound of schwag that he bought in mexico and then smuggled via )something rather( we were all super excited to smoke so much weed, until we split it like thick sheets of particle board. The closer we got to the middle of the brick, the more contaminants we saw. Y'kno your brick's really from mexico when you find cocoons,chunks of dirt, rocks, bits of plastic, but worst of all...a decayed lizard.....somehow it got into the brick, probably during the bricking process. everyone else wasnt phased by the dead lizard, but since then I haven't smoked schwag. if i ever buy schwag again I'm inspecting it first.
 
I see marijuana as quantity not quality as when you got no money but want to smoke a lot of weed, what the fuck else are you meant to smoke? Seriously I hate this shit over I got 'dank' or 'heads', who cares? If its grass, its grass and it should be smoked. I used to think the opposite of this but nowadays I smoke mainly out of small addiction then for the actual high, just having bongs calms me down, not the actual effects of the weed.
 
spaceyourbass said:
Now my question: What are your feelings on low-grade marijuana, also known as schwag and reggies? Do you look down on people who smoke this type of weed, and what is your general impression of them? Do you absolutely refuse to smoke schwag?
-Please read my entire post if you have the time and tell me what you think. You don't have to necessarily agree with me; these are my opinions, now please give yours.
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Okay so here are my thoughts: As far as low grade weed goes, I just don't ever mess with it, I enjoy stronger and better weed much more. middies/regs give me a headache when I smoke them (just the way it is) whether its out of a pipe or bong or blunt or whatever, I just don't like low quality weed. I would rather not be high at all than smoke schwag. I don't care if other people smoke it, but I don't like to. Most people can't get weed as good as mine so I don't really think much of it if their weed isn't as good. And yes, I do refuse to smoke schwag, but ONLY because it is harsh and doesn't taste that good and gives me a headache (mostly because of the headache).

I enjoy that super dank shit, not the dro or reggie or schwag. Ever since I first started smoking I just always wanted to have the best of the best. not because thats cool or makes me better than other people but because THATS WHAT I LIKE. lol. I enjoy kind herbs.
I also enjoy hash oil--right now :)

But even the dankest of the dank around here and for me isnt any more than 45/eighth so I'm not too worried about money.
 
Man all these pricks and their opinions about weed can just fuck OFF!

I smoke REG! godddamnit! and some good reg too..
You can say what you want, but weed is weed IS WEED!
Ive smoked the Great, the good, the bad and the ugly..and i will tell you that you will get stoned more times off a sack of reg than the equal price worth of dank...

All these little kids nowadays running around with their parents money are the only ones actually smoking good during these hard times..we afford what we can around here..dont get me wrong, i love some good dank, but its for special occasions when i got money, which is not right now, cuz im smokin reg..the everyday shit....like bud-light compared to champeigne..
They'll both get you there only people pay more for quality of taste, smell etc...i just WANT TO GET HIGH BITCH...IF you pass on the reg youra Pussy ass
 
Most people don't have a choice and smoke what's available. Not everyone has a summer home in Amsterdam or access to High Times lookin' weed. It's like fast food, you hope the guy preparing your meal doesn't spit in it and you hope the bag of weed you smoked to change your mood won't give you a respitory infection.
 
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