me as a buyer tbh. green is green
Thats why i hate going to dispensaries. I have never noticed any difference between indica or sativa, and i hate asking for an ounce of Rainbow Unicorn Spoof and half of Banana Creampie. I’m a grown man and i just want some weed to smoke and make edibles with. Normally i get around this by just buying shake, but they didn’t even have any at the place i went to a few months ago.
You can do what I did most recently.
I said “you have a special going on, so I want flower up to the limit for the special, good fun stuff, nice variety, preferably heavy on couch-lock weed. You can mix and match and I’ll just pay for it.”
Works out really well. I didn’t have to pretend to give a shit about their claims of how it tasted or what it would do (“smoke” and “high” respectively, per usual), didn’t have to pretend I cared what the names or blends were, like just give me weed please and thanks. Like my dealer never gave me options?? Just give weed, here’s money. I don’t want to talk to you about the weed just sell it to me before this is uncomfortable.
one thing you should care about is THC %, there’s a big difference between say 5% and 20%
5% THC weed will give you a nice relaxing high, the same amount of 20% THC weed will send you so far into space you can basically call it a psychodelic experience
You just don’t need to use as much with the higher % kinds. If the price is the same, it’s a better value because it can last longer.
FYI smoking is wasteful. Blunts are the most wasteful way to waste your money on that. Vaping with convection and/or conduction heat source is the absolute best way to use those flowers.
seeing as weed is still illegal where i currently live i’d rather trust an unaltered flower than a murky liquid of vague origin
Seriously have my doubts about the accuracy of said percentage. I’ve had 10-15% knock me on my ass compared to 20-23%
This is pretty much how it is buying weed anywhere. Everything has been crossbred with everything else so much to the point where it’s hard to even know the actual genealogy of a strain. Something listed as an indica can give you crack head energy, while something that claims to be sativa will put you in da ground, much less in da couch. If they’re even accurately tested to begin with. I’ve seen one brand labeling what was supposedly Grand Daddy Purple as a sativa dominant hybrid. It’s either not that, or not GDP.
Further, actual research has shown a persons individual biology combined with the individual biology of each individual strain has much more impact on how the strains effect a person than whether they are “sativa” or “indica.”
So your relationship with Grand Daddy Purple is your relationship and someone else’s may be different, but you can generally be sure you’ll get the same kind of high from the same strain each time.
Sure, but GDP is supposed to be the original strain (hence the “Grand Daddy” part of the name, much like OG is supposed to indicate it’s the original incarnation of that strain) and the original strain was indica. It doesn’t give me much confidence in the lab testing when the lab sticker says it’s something it shouldn’t be based on the strain it claims to be. Either the grower is lying to me or not actually having it tested correctly.
It’s all about the terpenes in it, and knowing if it was indica or sativa used to be a fairly good indicator of the type of high you would experience. Now you really have to experiment with shit or have very knowledgeable budtenders. Especially with concentrates because they often add terpenes to it that may not have been in the strain they made the concentrate from, which affects the high.
While you’re not wrong about how things have been crossbred, you need to be re-assessing if old wives tales from the 70’s are as accurate as scientific research. “Indica” and “Sativa” were never meaningful terms for the kind of high they gave you, and we never had any evidence to support it except anecdotal evidence.
Since legalization in my area, I feel like strains have all melded into a same-y collection. So few places sell the old strains that actually have distinctive qualities. Give me less Banana Brainlet Glue #69 and more Super Lemon Haze. Less Smack Daddy OG Citrus and more Cherry Pie.
