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paranoid android

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I was bitching about this in the lounge and it got me thinking. But what even is craft Cannabis? A strain is a strain pretty much right? I mean northern lights grown in one place should be the same as northern lights grown in another place right? I looked up the strains that they had and they where nothing spectacular. Certainly not worth the fortune they where charging. I got a ounce of weed from a online source i always use for not much more then then are charging for 7 fucking grams
 
paranoid android said:
I mean northern lights grown in one place should be the same as northern lights grown in another place right?
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fwiw there can be a pretty big difference between two plants of the same strain due to phenotypic variation, but i'd wager what they call craft cannabis is probably more about the grow technique and care taken to yield top quality
 
thujone said:
fwiw there can be a pretty big difference between two plants of the same strain due to phenotypic variation, but i'd wager what they call craft cannabis is probably more about the grow technique and care taken to yield top quality
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Very true. I doubt their cannabis is much different from the cheap stuff that i buy untaxed online or the somewhat cheaper stuff at the dispensary even really
 
Speaking of premium, would people agree that high CBDV strains are a sure bet if you want quality? I've never tried them, but I have tried CBDV and found it to be in a whole other ballgame than CBD.

Any recommendations for a strain or whatever that is akin to downers like opioids and benzos, i.e., not head stoning, but body focused (and not necessarily euphoric).
 
yeah, i found the online contraband stuff to be better quality than legal market overall... the legal market is operated in by corporations run by MBAs and unsavoury opportunistic politickers so they don't really give a shit about quality and the customer isn't really even a factor in their marketshare.
 
thujone said:
yeah, i found the online contraband stuff to be better quality than legal market overall... the legal market is operated in by corporations run by MBAs and unsavoury opportunistic politickers so they don't really give a shit about quality and the customer isn't really even a factor in their marketshare.
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Yup i get better quality and better strains on the online contraband vendors then i do at the legal store vendors. The stuff at the store always seems so dried out and stuff compared to the contraband stuff. The buds are also smaller in the store then online. I got a bud in a bag of faygo red pop that i got from a online vendor last week that was a good 1/8th of a ounce for sure. Cant find any buds like that in the legal stuff you get.
 
i think it's because the legal stuff is expected to just sit on shelves for a while so they need to be low humidity to keep from molding... i remember there were rumours about legal herb being irradiated to prevent mold... who knows, nothing would surprise me. if it's legal or not specifically regulated they will do it for profit.
 
Is there anything special about the natural moisture? Because you can always rehydrate cracker dry weed. The cannabis that was supplied by the rarified Federal cannabis program of 1978 was cracker dry. There's a video where Irv Rosenfeld states this and then states that he places some of it in a container with a piece of lettuce so as to rehydrate it.


Some info about the program, for anyone interested:

• 1978–early 1980s: The program was small and low-profile. A handful of patients like Robert Randall (glaucoma) and later Irvin Rosenfeld (bone disorder), Barbara Douglass (MS), George McMahon, and a few others were quietly enrolled.

 • Late 1980s: The AIDS crisis brought huge attention. Hundreds of HIV/AIDS patients started applying for Compassionate IND cannabis access, since it helped with wasting syndrome, appetite, and nausea.

 • 1991: With applications skyrocketing, the George H.W. Bush administration decided the program was unsustainable and politically risky. Officials cited concerns about “sending the wrong message” and about the government seeming to endorse medical marijuana.

 • March 1992: The federal government officially closed the program to new applicants. All pending applications (hundreds from AIDS patients) were denied. However, they allowed the existing enrollees to keep receiving cannabis for life.

 • After 1992: Only about a dozen patients remained, and over the years that number dwindled as patients passed away. Today, just a couple are still alive and receiving federal cannabis (including Irvin Rosenfeld).

[…]

Do you want me to list all the original surviving Compassionate IND patients and when they entered the program?
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paranoid android said:
I was bitching about this in the lounge and it got me thinking. But what even is craft Cannabis? A strain is a strain pretty much right? I mean northern lights grown in one place should be the same as northern lights grown in another place right? I looked up the strains that they had and they where nothing spectacular. Certainly not worth the fortune they where charging. I got a ounce of weed from a online source i always use for not much more then then are charging for 7 fucking grams
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when i hear craft cannabis i think of small batches grown, dried, trimmed, and cured with extreme care amd love compared to large commercial productions. this can help ensure a higher quality of flower as the grower can pay closer attention to individual plants and their needs throughout the process

sometimes theyre great but sometimes its marketing
 
Idk about elsewhere but in ny, on the legal market, craft is a protected term referring to a canopy size 3.5k sq ft or less (I believe)

Honestly though, craft gets thrown on anything these days.....but should refer to small batch/hand trimmed/organic flower. I consider small batch anything 2k 1/8th units or less (roughly 15lb)
 
IMO the dryness serves more than one goal on top of storage, starting with accelerated decarboxylation. Now that it's "legal" why does the industry perpetuate vilification vectors of a remote past, such as THC-centric genetics (that used to "fidelize" vulnerable individuals), now complemented with buzz-denying CBD ones as some blatant lie supposed to convince that's "balanced" with an abysmal void around the 2THC:1CBD zone?! Ah and the « Legal=Safe » slogan, oh please spare me!! Never before clandestinity caused a talented grower to keep such large catalogs of "sanitary products" on the premise, which is a hint of cheaters trying to pass lab testing with a cocktail effect where individual peeks remain below analysis horizon while its stinch won't go unnoticed by sensitive critter antennas, hence the legislator's motivation to allow unrestricted combinatorial C(n, r) numbers merged with a concept of « non-detection »... So it's all a bad dream and reality emerges under my 40 $ USB microscope again and again, showing all too often what a lack of respect for the plant and its consumers can look like, e.g. through a vision blurred as hell so you can't recognize what you see anymore. And yet an absence of the familiar sense of touch from true cannabis crumbling under the finger ain't lying, the mix of crunchy/screeching salt & sugar is now gone for the most part, implying a boosted exposure to vegetal tissue infused with money-fueled contaminants, for a quick profit that pleases politi¢al agenda$ reflecting bigot prohibitionism forever.

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Fair enough. Move to a green state or province where to grow your own as that's the only sure way. Then get a microscope with all the cash saved, because it multiplies the satisfaction quite a bunch!! :cool:

And here's a bonus i can also provide for guidance with the other aspects:

Egzoset said:
#1) Neuro-plasticity;
#2) Contaminants;
#3) Consumption Method & Ritual;
#4) Socio-toxic 3rd-party interference
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