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

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I never understood MJ smokers who huff and puff about (1) how schwag is so terrible, (2) how anyone who smokes low-grade weed is a n00b, a waste of space, or any number of insults, and (3) how they would never, ever smoke regs.

I will now challenge these widespread assumptions:

(1) Is any form of the good plant, even the low-grade stuff, inherently evil? You might not say it is evil but rather a complete waste of time and money. If low-grade weed is not absolutely riddled with seeds and contains no pesticides or otherwise harmful shit, is it possible for other folks to enjoy it without being subjected to mockery? Marijuana and its users should not encourage unnecessary ridicule. This is against the true nature of the effects of weed.

(2) Not everyone enjoys the strong high associated with dank. There are plenty of occasional users who can't handle it. Why can't they enjoy MJ in the form of schwag? Maybe certain users prefer a lower grade, because they are able to smoke more of it and thus enjoy the act of smoking more. For some people it is not always about having the best of the best. Many people enjoy the social aspect of passing a nice blunt and cannot afford to use their dank in this manner. What about old-school hippies and OGs who enjoy their joints of old-fashioned pot? Surely you should not bash those who have been smoking and chilling correctly since before the time of your conception.

(3) Consider this situation: A true pothead who smokes everyday and depends on weed for normalcy is unable to find any bud, and all she has ever smoked before is headies. She goes without for a few days and is still unable to acquire any. Stressed and irritable, she says a prayer to the MJ gods. They present her with a blunt, joint, or a fat bowl of her choice, but of schwag instead of headies. I guarantee that she would smoke that shit in a heartbeat and thank the gods for their generosity. I don't think it is a stretch to assume that she might even enjoy it quite a bit.

It must be explained that there is some weed out there which is absolutely terrible. It may be male or contain more stems and seeds than actual weed, or it could have nasty insecticides or mold. It could also be completely fake. One should not assume that schwag is any of these. Schwag/regs/reggie(s), which is all the same thing, is simply inexpensive marijuana that is low-grade when compared to beasters, headies, dank, KB, or even true mid-grade. True mid-grade contains very few seeds and stems, and is fairly dense, but has considerably less THC content than beasters or better. I also get the feeling that some people get the wrong idea of schwag if they got ripped-off by someone selling absolutely terrible weed. This can be especially true if they are ripped-off several times and find good weed later on, or if they are ripped-off once in between finding and smoking good weed. Some people also smoke schwag in a bowl or a bong when it is preferable to roll it in a joint or blunt.

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.

A bit about myself:
I'm known for rolling pretty good blunts. When I'm around smokers who only deal with headies but can't roll a fat blunt, blunts often come into conversation. Many a time we have taken trips to the hood (which is getting much better schwag on average compared to 5-10 years ago) and returned to roll a fat blunt of shwag for very little money. These blunts will usually burn for around 20-30 minutes and sometimes much more. It makes for a really easy and social session to just pass it around instead of constantly packing and cleaning bongs, bowls, or gravities. What is really nice is to get high on good bud ~30 minutes before you light up a fat blunt of that good ole Reggie Miller.

Thank you for reading, now comment you potheads!
 
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Of course I would refuse to smoke schwag(if its all I had and really wanted to get stoned but most times I don't have any desire to smoke schwag). Where i'm from and in most other places, schwag is literally the worst of the worst. It crumbles between your fingers, is possibly a disgusting brown, smells like spice or some other non marijuana like odor, and tastes like ass in your mouth/burns the fuck out of your lungs. Who would want to intentionally smoke that?!? Low grade weed/reggies are just less nice, sometimes slightly brown with a very weak odor nugs/shake atleast IMO. I would have totally gotten it if you replaced schwag with mids or good mids. I love smoking really solid mids over any heads since heads are ridiculously overpriced and all that. Also I don't look down on someone because of the type of marijuana they smoke...that makes no sense, actually it makes the same amount of sense as someone who only drinks liquor constantly berating anyone drinking beer.
 
Just think it depends on preference, when I was younger I always opted for the better quality weed, but there was always going to be times when I couldn't get high grade so I got schwag. I don't really look down on it , but I really wouldn't smoke it again if it came my way either, who knows, just depends on the time and place I guess.
 
When you're like me and can only get a half pound or so a year and when you run out early and want to get high after 4 months you will smoke almost anything
 
I'll smoke anything.
I'd rather good skunk, or hash. But when the chips are down I'll smoke cheap hash just to keep appetite up.
It's all down to tolerance levels.
If it ain't got plastic init it's smokeable :D
 
heh, dude, once you have had really good weed, you cann't go back. i would never touch schwag, mids, or dank. i only buy headies and exotics because i know people who grow their own weed, and if i am going to drop money for a quarter-pound, then it better damn well be the best fucking weed on the earth.
 
that's the same way I feel.. I smoked regular mexican brick weed for many years. then I started growing my own. what I used to pay for a quarter pound of weed, now I wouldn't give for a dump truck load of that stuff...
 
I don't look down on people who smoke schwag, thats just ridiculous. Giving that I smoke my weight in weed annualy and 99% of the time its headies, I wouldn't turn down a bowl of regs if I didn't have any smoke. Thats just effin retarded. I understand the mentality of the picky pot smoker though because I was once that person, right after I got introduced to kind bud and was able to afford it. But after being around it for so long you realize not everyone is the same. I know a lot of people that can't handle smoking chronic and would rather have schwag. I know a lot of people who would rather drink beer than having shots of whiskey. Its all personal preference and its just ignorant to look down on somebody for it.
 
I don't smoked that bricked horrible weed. The odds of containment are so much higher due to where it comes from and the methods it's smuggled. Sure, you can smoke more of it, but the high sucks in comparison - it's like preferring shitty coke because it's cheaper then fire. I can understand people smoking it, but personally, I will let it pass unless I'm impaired already.

Plus, if you got money, you can smoke as much headies as you want.

I'll leave this open for a few, but it's closer to blog material IMO.
 
Unless it's out of a water pipe I'll refuse low grade every time. However I don't look down upon people that smoke it,I just polite fully decline. But to be honest, I've seen reggies maybe twice in the past few years. I hardly get the concept of regs nowadays after being spoiled with medical grade, I just can't wrap my head around why someone would go through the trouble and danger of growing marijuana and not do things the right way.
 
^ schwag is generally mexi import, 100s of pounds at once. It's not usually local grown... that will be KB, mids, or great grown headies.
 
I've been growing my own for the past 11 years, so I haven't had to buy it since the 90s. If I had to choose, though, I'd always go for higher quality buds. I've spent the past year trying new strains from seed. Some plants turned out to be great, some less than great. I just use the weak plants to make edibles. The top quality buds are reserved for the vaporizer.

I understand how someone who loves smoking would want less potent buds. I hardly smoke at all anymore, but if I did I'd want the strongest buds I could find. If it's "too strong", I'd just smoke less. I'd much rather get high from one hit than have to smoke a whole joint for the same effect.
 
Weed for me is a great anti-depressant no matter how high or low the dosage but anyways I don't smoke schwag... Fuck that nasty shit...I barely even like smoking mids anymore. There is no way I'm going to smoke shitty weed. Its not even worth it. There's no reason to if you can get better shit, even if you can't its not worth spending your money on low-grade marijuana.
 
I like schwag, and it's almost all I smoke for a few reasons-

1) I'm poor and I have a large weed habit, and dank is ridiculously overpriced. The standard market price for good weed is a huge ripoff, considering that I smoke schwag and good weed at roughly the same rate when I have them. Usually if I have dank I'll smoke bout a gram or 2 a day, with schwag it'll be 1.5- 2.5 grams a day. Schwag is 10 or more times cheaper, dank isn't close to 10 times better then any 99% of schwag I've seen, even medical grade cali stuff.

2) Joints and blunts are how I prefer to smoke most of the time.

3) I like the schwag high. It's different, but often preferable to dank for me. Usually schwag is very CBD high and really chills me out nice, if it's late at night or I have nothing to do I like schwag. I think dank is better for smoking and then doing stuff whereas schwag is ideal for laying around listening to music and not doing shit. YMMV

4) Schwag is more convenient for me to get. Just swing by the gate or some hood dealer. People who sell schwag are usually drug dealers interested in business, I've only known a few schwag dealers that liked to get to know their customers. Most chronic dealers like to chill out and smoke with you and talk about weed and stuff, not just have you knock on the door, buy a bag and leave without talking to them. Most of the people I buy schwag from don't even know my name, nor I theirs.

Anyone who judges others based on the quality of weed they smoke is a complete idiot. On top of that, the only time I've heard of people refusing schwag is online. Every person I've ever smoked weed with, which is a ton of people, have been fine with smoking it. I'm sure there are people who straight up won't smoke schwag ever, but I've never met one.

Maybe it's cause I'm in Texas though, most people here smoke schwag or have smoked it. Plus the schwag we can get here in Texas and in other border states is far superior to the stuff ya'll get farther north. I've noticed that in the North schwag has a much worse rep then in the South.

All that being said, growing your own is the best option. Many of us can't do that though.
 
If you ever start growing, you'll see that you can find any type of high you're looking for with "dank". If you want to chill and relax, or talk to friends and be social, or if you want an introspective psychedelic high, or if you want energy to get stuff done, you can find top quality strains for each type of high. A top quality indica will put you on the couch watching tv all day, while a top quality sativa will motivate you to stay busy and get stuff done. I know it's hard finding variety like that when you go through a dealer, though. When you have that kind of selection available, I think the only reason to go with weaker stuff is if you want to smoke a lot without getting too high.

It's crazy that people judge others on their weed preference. I don't buy it at all anymore, but I'd only "refuse" weed because I know I have better stuff at home. I know exactly how mine was grown, in an all organic soil mix with no pesticides, fungicides, etc. I'll only eat or vaporize someone else's bud if I know them personally and I know how they grow it.
 
I highly prefer dank. I love the taste, the smell, the texture, and how it looks. It's very pretty. :) Around here I have a fairly steady supply of diesel strains. It's not always possible to get dank, though. If it's been a few days since the last time I smoked and there's no dank to be had in the city, I'll get schwag. I'd never look down on anyone for smoking low-grade pot. It seems like you're going out of your way to have a reason to dislike people for those who look down on people that smoke schwag.
 
^I prefer dank, but I like to have schwag around.

m314 said:
If you ever start growing, you'll see that you can find any type of high you're looking for with "dank". If you want to chill and relax, or talk to friends and be social, or if you want an introspective psychedelic high, or if you want energy to get stuff done, you can find top quality strains for each type of high. A top quality indica will put you on the couch watching tv all day, while a top quality sativa will motivate you to stay busy and get stuff done. I know it's hard finding variety like that when you go through a dealer, though. When you have that kind of selection available, I think the only reason to go with weaker stuff is if you want to smoke a lot without getting too high.

It's crazy that people judge others on their weed preference. I don't buy it at all anymore, but I'd only "refuse" weed because I know I have better stuff at home. I know exactly how mine was grown, in an all organic soil mix with no pesticides, fungicides, etc. I'll only eat or vaporize someone else's bud if I know them personally and I know how they grow it.
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I have grown in the past, it's definitely the best option. But I find schwag provides a high different then any chronic, even indica. I think schwag has a unique balance of cannabinoids or something, I dunno.

One other issue is that I find when I smoke dank all the time for a few weeks I start to feel tired and mentally burnt out even when sober, whereas schwag never impairs me in that way. A big part of it might be that I'm very used to schwag, it's what I've mostly smoked for all my years of daily smoking.

For me, schwag is like soul food, I know it's not very good for my health, I know there's better stuff out there, but I love it and it will always occupy a special place in my heart.
 
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.
 
Is a slab of brick that sparkles and smells fantastic still considered schwag? I can only get shit-grade brick or high-grade buds where I am now, but I always long for a nice bag of good brick.

If I roll a joint of high-grade and a joint of good brick, I'll probably roll the high-grade joint a bit skinnier, but other than that, I smoke the joint essentially the same way-- I'll smoke it half way before getting to where I want to be and then put it out for later.

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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