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

Many years of smoking pot and going through endless connects has led me to only know dealers that sell really good shit, so that's what I get 95% of the time. I; however, would not hesitate to smoke schwag if I had to. I don't know a single stoner who would straight up turn it down and opt for smoking nothing over smoking lows, or schwag and really, I don't want to know anyone like that.
 
Well I'm from Alaska so I've never seen schwag or low grade marijuana.....haha....I mean I've smoked more potent then others, but the last 3 or so years I've ran into some awesome bud...but if someone offered me low grade or "schwag" to smoke I would have to decline because I feel I would have to smoke more to get high, wouldn't enjoy the taste, etc.
 
I prefer lower potency smoke. TBH, I'm not a massive fan of weed. I like to mong for a day on it or finish a night out with it, in which case I don't want something which is gonna retard me. That's why I prefer a bit of peppery squidgy hash - it's not too potent and the CBDs seem to balance out THC's 'edginess' for a nice, mellow high.
 
If were talking like mexican brick weed, shit like that. I'd smoke a joint of it if someone offered but I wouldnt go out buying it, I guess it probably depends where u live alot too, here theres so many people all growing that theres always good weed/hash around so I greatly prefer that. As far as looking down on/making fun of people who smoke or even prefer it, I would like to think only loser 13 year olds do that, but im probably wrong.
 
Living in the Netherlands I constantly get to choose between a fairly wide price scale, from outdoor bud grown locally or imported from Thailand or Jamaica to long-flowering indoor sativas that may cost 3-4 times more per gram.

I'm a bit of a bud snob, and I come across as a huge pothead as I'm constantly sitting on a hefty stockpile of weed, but it's just that I don't like to smoke the same thing all day in every situation, and I enjoy having a selection of buds to choose from when toking at home. I also almost exclusively buy the most expensive strain available at a coffeeshop (except when it happens to be a sativa, which is often, and I am looking for an indica), and pretty much never buy the budget or mid-range stuff - even the cheaper Dutch indoor stuff.

Then again, this might have to do with the way almost all coffeeshops here operate - you have fixed bag sizes, you pay a certain amount and for that X bucks you can get a bag of decent weed or a smaller bag of good weed. I'm shit with handling money and calculating things in the long term, so it's easiest for me to consider how much I (can afford to) spend per day on bud. In this case, if the amount of money I'm spending doesn't change, I'd rather get a smaller quantity of higher quality herb. If I actually had to pay more money every time to get a bag of the better weed, I might not end up getting the top one every time.

I find the question about feelings on users of low-grade marijuana funny though. Why should I give a shit what someone else wants to smoke? If they want to save money, get less stoned and remain functional, keep their tolerance down, whatever - all my friends smoke cheaper weed than I do, and I never once thought of looking down at them for it. I would actually quite like to be a bit less of a pothead so I wouldn't feel like I have to smoke the dankest shit all day every day.:\
 
depends what state i'm in. If i'm in my home state Arizona they have cheap-ass reggies that are pretty good quality...but the fire shit is expensive as hell....

If i'm in Oregon where I am now there ARE NO reggies...seriously....just fire dank that is cheap. So i obviously would only smoke fire here.....
 
^ for me it's not about snobbery or looking down on people that smoke it. If people want to smoke shitty weed then that's their choice and I'm sure they have their reasons. However, since I like to be the equivalent of a wine connoisseure with smoking, I would turn down shitty brickweed/'shwag' in favour of something better I've grown myself. For some people smoking the best is more important, not only for the high but for the taste.

At the end of the day I like to know what strain I'm smoking and to know that it's been grown with loving care and attention. With crappy weed that's just not the case so I can't imagine myself ever wanting to smoke that stuff by choice.
 
we dont really have schwag here in the UK, never seen brown bud or brick, in 5 years of smoking only had seeds in my bud once or twice. Here we seem to have "home grown" just a term for average bud, usually has orange hairs but may not be best cuts or not many trichs,some home grown can be quite poor though, then "high grade" or "skunk" wich also has varying grades within itself, but usually is stinking and covered in trichs.

I guess our schwag would be the "thai" weed that i think is actually African, but is very uncommon in my circles. I like to mix and match between high grade and home grown but i only usually smoke the better home grown, as its better value as the skunk can be silly expensive sometimes.
 
Oh, and I might have failed to point out that I'm not a total snob - when it's my money I'm spending I like to invest in the higher end of the spectrum, but I'll smoke lower-grade marijuana if it just happens to be that someone else bought lower-grade marijuana or there's no amazing dank available at that moment or whatever. When given the choice, I will almost always buy something within the top 15% price-wise. When given no choice, I will smoke your grandma's socks if you tell me you spilled bongwater over them the other week.
 
Psychonauticunt said:
Oh, and I might have failed to point out that I'm not a total snob - when it's my money I'm spending I like to invest in the higher end of the spectrum, but I'll smoke lower-grade marijuana if it just happens to be that someone else bought lower-grade marijuana or there's no amazing dank available at that moment or whatever. When given the choice, I will almost always buy something within the top 15% price-wise. When given no choice, I will smoke your grandma's socks if you tell me you spilled bongwater over them the other week.
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That's what I like to hear haha :) Obviously, given the choice, I'd never choose lower over higher but shit, when nothing else is available I'll take whatever I can get.
 
If they're from a medical marijuana state that's totally understandable, I know several people that exclusively smoke concentrates. Even now when I don't have a card I know at least ten people that will go to a clinic for me if I smoked a few bowls with them.


But when I can't get a hold of anyone I'll smoke regs if it's priced like regs. I won't smoke super shwaggy weed though, if all I can get is absolute garbage I just won't smoke, I can hit resin and get higher than shwagg gets me.
 
I've been lurking hard in PD for probably the past year but I always try to get back over to my roots in CD every once in a while. From what I remembered, this was always a place where some of the best cannabis discussion on the internet was going on on a daily basis. What's going on with all the dick-sizing? Be nice. Pot is pot.
 
Smoking schwag is a good way to support cartels I would imagine. Support your local economy. To each their own though
 
raver2008 said:
Thats one of the dumbest things i've ever heard..
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Not really - I know a lot of stoners who are proper junkies.

I'm not saying that smoking anything that comes along is a good idea, but smoking ridiculously strong weed all the time is fucking retarded. It's good to smoke stuff that isn't so strong sometimes, as long as it has a good flavour and effect.
 
B1tO'RoughJack said:
I'm not saying that smoking anything that comes along is a good idea, but smoking ridiculously strong weed all the time is fucking retarded. It's good to smoke stuff that isn't so strong sometimes, as long as it has a good flavour and effect.
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It's hard to find schwag in CA dispensaries, but I occasionally smoke street weed if my friends have it. I smoked some $5/g stuff in a blunt and the high that it gave was so dirty and so different from dank that I got kind of freaked out. I asked him, having never smoked JWH, "hey man, you sure we didn't smoke any JWH-laced weed?" He reassured me that he saw the dealer pull them out of the ziploc.

So, don't hate on low grade smokers, but don't hate on high grade smokers as well. I mean, they like the clean, non-burned out effect dank gives them, so if they can afford it, why is it "fucking retarded?"
 
B1tO'RoughJack said:
Not really - I know a lot of stoners who are proper junkies.

I'm not saying that smoking anything that comes along is a good idea, but smoking ridiculously strong weed all the time is fucking retarded. It's good to smoke stuff that isn't so strong sometimes, as long as it has a good flavour and effect.
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Not necessarily. You're being very judgmental and also quite narrow-minded.

Why does only smoking high-grade make you a junkie? What if you smoke one or two bowls a day (or not even every day) and the guy next door blazes schwag all day long? Also, it is possible to smoke (or vaporize) small amounts of strong weed! I can, and frequently do, take pretty tiny hits from a bong that get me just a little buzzed - the same way taking two to four drags off a joint would.
If I drink alcohol moderately, but I don't drink beer, only wine and liquor, am I an alcoholic? If instead of drinking a couple of cans of beer I drink a small glass of Scotch on the rocks, is that fucking retarded?

Of course if you're smoking the dank like you're smoking the schwag, it may have some detrimental psychological effects, although the schwag may be worse for your lungs and throat, at least. Either way, the point is that you don't have to smoke the same amount of weed, no matter what kind it is.
 
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