yeah, I coughed a lot and didn't get very high the first time.
Also, in the states where I'm located we classify our qualities basically in the following manner:
a) dirt weed - (inexpensive, poor quality stringy, dark in color [often brown] and tastes like utter shit)
b) middies - (your standard, average weed, usually always green)
c) nuggets, nugs, dank, etc - (potent, pretty to look at, rarely has seeds, tastes nice)
^^^^^^^^this is just generally speaking^^^^^^
Also the device you smoke with affects the flavor.
Some people roll joints with very little weed in them and the taste of the rolling paper overwhelms everything else and tastes just plain nasty.
Some use metal bowls with screens. It works well and is fairly common but dirty screens and metal affect the flavor as well
Glass pipes... ahhhhhhh yes!!!! The wAy to go to enjoy a nice nuggets flavor. Clean, glass bowls are so nice to smoke from
Oh, I forgot about blunts which are cigar wraps that have the tobacco dumped out and re-rolled with weed. I always thought that this method (and joints) is a waste of weed.
Also IMO, putting nugs in a blunt is like putting ketchup on a really good steak. The cigar paper overwhelms the flavor of the quality weed
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