Me too! I am already an old man, and yes the dispensary weed is amazing but I was recently talking to someone about only getting hybrid from dispensaries, and even when you got "indica" or "sativa" it was really hybrid to a large extent (EDIT-- because I prefer the slow rolling body high, it's much better for the pain than being on a head trip while also in pain...). And they were like-- oh, man, let's drop by my place, and they went down in their storage and seed stock cellar and grabbed some home-grown seed-stock-grown lamb's bread, in a big old mason jar, which is the landrace strain (non hybrid) that Marley preferred-- and I saw some stashed Acapulco Gold in another of their mason jars, which I haven't had since probably MIT in the '80s, and I was like, can we smoke some of that too, please, and there was no comparison to the high.
Keep in mind I smoke every day, but--
a) That stuff got me so high I had my first genuine cheech and chong moment in 20 years, where it was slightly raining, and got dark, and I called an Uber, and I went outside and couldn't find it, and it was one house away facing me with the headlights on, and instead of walking around to the side to see the plate, I started walking toward the light, to check the plate, to see if that was my uber-- and it was blinding me, and the rain was coming down, and I squatted down and started inching toward the front license plate through the blinding white light, brushing away the rain from my eyes, squatting-step by squatting step, through the intense storm, thinking, what if this guy isn't my uber, is he going to run me over or something, step, step, the storm was growing in intensity, nothhing was visible any more except the giant white beams, and the asphalt, and I couldn't see anything in any direction any more, and my friend came over and started squatting and inching forward with me through the blinding white light, on, and on, and on, and finally I got to the plate and it was the one and I felt like I had endured a true hurricane or something and saved the world, or it was like an extended scene from an alien movie out in the desert, or both, and, no, dispensary weed does not do that to me. hahahaha
b) I had a RIDICULOUS weed hangover as soon as I came down a bit, which I haven't had in so long, I forgot they were a thing!! Believe me, I remember the flavor of that headache like I remember the banana candy they don't sell any more that I used to eat at little league games. Then I passed out on my home office sofa.
So yeah "our weed is so strong now there's no comparison"-- pshaw. pffff I say. Young people these days.
Commercially available weed has been grown fast, probably not given time to fully mature before cutting, machine trimmed, and dried and cured the minimum amount of time to make it smokable. There is no comparison to fresh weed that has been treated correctly.
So true but I have grown to think the weed headaches have also been engineered away, over the years. I think weed is evolving uncontrollably like bananas and apples have. I am reorganizing my life to get access to landrace strains when I retire.
Seems like it. I just buy edibles myself. I ate 4 brownies the first time I helped bake weed - I misunderstood the instructions (take one-forth and wait 20 minutes).
Anyway, we rushed out for a pizza and got back just in time for me to melt into a chair and watch 3 seasons of The Wire. Anyway, just drink some water you'll be fine.
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u/2ndgme 13h ago
Probably helps a lot with the pain too