IS it me or is dispensary cannabis not the same as home grown cannabis?

[notsmokeymcpot42088]

Perfumery vendors -- got ya, would not be the first place I woulda checked by a long shot!! Grazi

I am smoking these terps right? I mean I am using them for odor....but in practice humans smoke them right?

 

[Allylbenzene]

I am smoking these terps right? I mean I am using them for odor....but in practice humans smoke them right?

Just make sure the actual product is pure and free from adulteration eg carrier oils. When someone smokes, eats or vapes flower, dabs or hash they're smoking, ingesting or vaping terpenes alongside the cannabinoids.

The terpenes work just fine without cannabinoids also, alternatively alongside a coffee or nicotine or hot chocolate etc

 

[Cream Gravy?]

I guess the upside is most people aren't smoking Mexican pee anymore (you do not want to know what they did to that stuff before they bricked it up to be sent over the border).

I remember the first time I reached into a bag of Mexi-brick and a fuckin centipede came crawling onto my hand. Good times lol

Used to buy pounds of the stuff for pennies on the dollar compared to that 'dro'. Wish I'd kept all the seeds.

 

[Rabbit]

I remember the first time I reached into a bag of Mexi-brick and a fuckin centipede came crawling onto my hand. Good times lol

Used to buy pounds of the stuff for pennies on the dollar compared to that 'dro'. Wish I'd kept all the seeds.

Found so much crap in Mexican brick weed over the years. Human hair, dog hair (I hope), pubes, bits of wood/bark, bits of plastic, bits of glass, a human tooth one time and many other random things.

My friend (RIP) grew up in Mexico before immigrating illegally over the border with his mother in the mid-90s. His mom got in trouble for running cocaine but he was just a clueless kid at the time so they let him stay in the country. Got married to a local girl. Anyway, he told me when he was very young he used to watch the men throw huge parties to celebrate the harvest before bricking it up to be sent North over the border. He said they'd stay up all night drinking beer and piss on the crop for good luck (and to stick it to the Americans) before they'd brick it up. Partly to cover the smell I guess. Explains why moldy bricks were so common and that God awful smell.

We used to get some really terrible stuff here. Like not even worth smoking terrible. Like 2 ounces of shake in every QP terrible. But you could buy pounds of it for pennies.

 

[jasonmiller1]

That’s rough. The centipede would’ve been enough for me, but a tooth is on another level.It’s crazy how much random stuff people accepted back then just because it was cheap and easy to get. Did any of those seeds ever actually produce anything decent, or were they mostly a gamble too?

 

[General alcazar]

I remember that pressed Mexican weed in the 1980s. It all tasted rank, but there was nothing else to buy. Potency varied wildly, and mostly it had lots of seeds, which were often crushed and hard to separate from the weed. Never did find a tooth or a centipede though.

 

[Electrum1]

I got some with little pebbles in it. Not sure if it was just in there anyway or if it was a scam to make it weigh more

 

[paranoid android]

That’s rough. The centipede would’ve been enough for me, but a tooth is on another level.

It’s crazy how much random stuff people accepted back then just because it was cheap and easy to get. Did any of those seeds ever actually produce anything decent, or were they mostly a gamble too?

If i found a centipede in my weed i would cover it in gas and set it on fire. Fuck that shit

I bought a ounce of weed one tme back in the 90's that had a shitton of seeds. Lost about 3 or 4 grams picking it out. I dont miss the days of getting seeds or stems in your weed. Not to mention most of the weed you got back then had already been through a grinder and most of the keif was removed. So much shitty weed back in the day and dont even get me started on the hash quality

People who say weed was so much better back in the day just have a higher tolerance now. I mean how often did we buy a ounce to ourselves back in the 90's? A ounce back then was $300 in 90's money that was a fuck ton. Noone ad ounces back then unless you where a dealer

 

[General alcazar]

Cannabis is far stronger now than anything available in the 90s, though some was close. A friend consistently grew northern lights, and it was probably around 15% THC, and very skunky. Cannabis now is ridiculously strong. I’m guessing the Mexican pressed stuff was maybe 5% with a generous serving of headache.

 

[brokedownpalace10]

The Mexican from the 80's was schwag. That's what you called it. It was cheap, commercial pot for people who were getting drunk anyway. It was often pressed in trash compactors and the worst was when they overpressed it and the seeds burst. The pot was then full of seed oil and tasted nasty.

The Mexican from the early 70's, before Columbian became king, was mostly a commercial product which was still better than the Mexican schwag of the 80's. But, you had your occasional Michoacan or Oaxacan (Acapulco is in Oaxaca... Acapulco Gold) or other fine pot which was quite decent. A lot of the domestic, outdoor sinse that started up when Reagan dried up the Columbian has that quality, Mexican heritage and I'm sure it's genetics are still in pot today.

 

[General alcazar]

When I lived in Western Europe in 1980s, I was blown away by all the hash, and, meanwhile, all my European friends wanted was for me to bring weed from the states. As far as I was concerned, I was happy to never smoke the plant again. It’s too bad good quality Moroccan, Afghani, Lebanese and other endemic hashish are so hard to find. Nonexistant for me where I live. Dispensary hash is just not the same.

 

[notsmokeymcpot42088]

They have like many different kinds of non solvent hash at dispos--- lemme check the tin real quick Yea thiis black afghani 2 grams. Was a little overpriced compared to say live resin but you pay for solventless

You hit the nail on the head with "Generous serving of headache" -- That is the main thing I remember going from good hydro to mexi-brick......and now back again (Huzzah) and I gotta say IME it is better than ever

 

[PtahTek]

i feel that disp wood is bred for thc content mostly and homegrown is a more complete experience with the herbal med

just my take

 

[brokedownpalace10]

i feel that disp wood is bred for thc content mostly and homegrown is a more complete experience with the herbal med

just my take

Dispensary pot is bred for strength and one way to achieve that is to let the Indica buzz predominate. You can have a plant which is 90% Sativa and still have the Indica buzz predominate. Genetics.
Don't get me wrong. A nice, sleepy high which does still have a decent amount of Sativa in there is very nice and I sure wouldn't turn it down. A little variety would be nice, though.

 

[PtahTek]

i did some research a while back that indicated that farms raise crops for cash and the stronger the better for $. thats the demand.
they breed certain genes and breed out others. cbd? fuck that we wanna be spaced out, man! lol

i dont know not a farmer. but it does seem like providing what is in demand is a great business model or part of one at least.

inbred weed
what could go wrong...?

 

[brokedownpalace10]

inbred weed

Nicely put, actually.

 

[notsmokeymcpot42088]

i feel that disp wood is bred for thc content mostly and homegrown is a more complete experience with the herbal med

just my take

This cannot be argued with honestly. Alot of strains are being bred out. Most pure sativa's are rare if not gone...

my argument is just in general it is for the better (for most people) --- You happen to be a CBN CBD guy more than a THC guy you may be onto something, or like the effect of a certain terpene in a rare strain idk ..... There are exceptions I am quite sure.

Objectively fair take though.

 

[brokedownpalace10]

This cannot be argued with honestly. Alot of strains are being bred out. Most pure sativa's are rare if not gone...

my argument is just in general it is for the better (for most people) --- You happen to be a CBN CBD guy more than a THC guy you may be onto something, or like the effect of a certain terpene in a rare strain idk ..... There are exceptions I am quite sure.

Objectively fair take though.

No doubt. It's nice to always be able to get good pot without spending a lot of time building connections and clipping coupons.

 

[BourbonMac]

i feel that disp wood is bred for thc content mostly and homegrown is a more complete experience with the herbal med

just my take

That really depends where you're located, honestly. In my area, people don't rave about high THC, it's about high terps, so most strains are like, 18-22% on average. When I grabbed some 26% last month, that was really high for me, but most people in my area know THC% doesn't matter that much. I have some Purple Venom at 20% that hits me just as heavy as that 26% Cartoons & Cereal. For me, it really is all about the terps.

Dispo weed just varies too much depending on your location, if you know how to properly shop cannabis in the rec/med market, etc. It took me awhile to dial in to all the shady brands and now I pretty much stick to the locally grown, never remediate, high terp flower. Haven't had a disappointing purchase in over a year as a result. How long it's been legal in an area I think definitely matters too.

All I really know is that when I've been out to Cali, all their flower is so ridiculously high in THC. Almost nothing I could find in some areas was even under 30%, but the terps were still high too. But I knew they were totally full of shit when they sold GMO at 42.8% THC, because that's straight up not even possible. I've never run into faked numbers anywhere else really, so it's surprising coming from Cali.

 

[PtahTek]

42.8% THC

I had someone say 90% thc and I was like wtf...? nah; iirc thc is topping at around 30% maybe a bit higher.

a lot of people want the thc and i feel the marketed thc isolates on the market are filling that void fairly well. not a fan but thats me. to each.

i am not sure where the balance is for me yet but aroma and flavor is important to me as well as some for of cbd and the rest of whats inside the flower.

if i dont like the "feel" of a bag i just toast it up and eat it. no worries.

def not a weed connoisseur just some observation thrown around maybe theres something there maybe not.

im gettin eat up by skeeters gotta run peace