In your opinion do you think medical marijuana still gives a good HIGH as street weed

In your opinion do you think medical marijuana still gives a good HIGH as street weed?...i've been a patient for about a week...and my experience is that it does,but more in a relaxation standpoint than a recreational standpoint...it feels like a slightly tapered version of some street stuff..but still just as good and maybe better overall,cleaner if you will

 

tbh, I like me some aged weed over this medical fresh stuff..

 

Some medical versions can come with less THC.

 

In my experience it has overall been better quality and more consistent for sure. But it really comes down to strain, freshness, and curing/storage as for what can impact quality/effects.
If I am getting the same strain from the same place, more often than not it is the same quality and effect.
I like that much better than the roll o' the dice every time with "street weed".

One thing that has been lost is the technique of allowing the plant to die/dry in the ground and then harvest the buds.
When done that way the chlorophyll/sugars are naturally used up and you end up with the reds, browns and golds with that spicy smell and aroma and the "plant yur' ass on da coach for four hours watching re-runs of "The Little Rascals" kinda stoney buzzzzz.
It ends up with a higher ratio of CBD/CBN to THC and thus the extra stony effects, there was just something about a nice Colombian or actual Thai stick that made it unique.

I agree Orison, I miss those nice "aged" stoney varieties that you just do not see any more......*sigh*

 

thanks guys,i just had one more follow up question


just got my recommendation certificate letter from a med doctor a few days ago...and at the end i specifically asked the person up front if the records go out to my regular physician who's name i listed on the paper(per their requirements) but without a location,and he said NO everything is CONFIDENTIAL....is this usually the case...sometimes i get paranoid about the records getting out.The fellow at the front said that 80 percent of people that walk in have the same question,anyway he said confidenti

 

Old school bud I call it.

 

sometimes the mids are pretty good. outdoorsy weed ..
Im not going to complain as the medical is like NG said rather consistent.

 

yes the medical shit can trip you out I know first hand. my dad saw god one time off the medical Marijuana and I was doing some praying one time too bring my out of a bad trip

 

....th' fuck?

You can go ask for whatever kind you want. Get sativa, indica, or inbetween, get a specific strain you like, whatever.... it's all just higher quality.

Ask them for the kind of effects you want. If it's too strong, smoke less - a fraction of a gram will get you the same place as a fat bowl of schwag.

Orison, try curing it a while. It's not like people who grow great pot aren't serious about their curing, or like it won't end up just as well - it comes from individuals who love weed and love growing good weed, who cure their own stashes.

 

No, it's not that dude, it is exactly what I said in my previous post, the techniques of harvesting have radically changed. When the plant is allowed to die in ground, as was the practice in all of South America and Asia for eons, it yields a much, much different smoke in terms of appearance, taste and effect.
Not saying the stuff available to day isn't as good, just different.

Quite frankly I doubt that any of you who started smoking after about 1990 really know what I am/was referring to in my previous post, but us old stoners certainly know the difference.

I would love to some real gold Colombian or real Thai stick circa 1978 again...

 

I would say there's probably little real difference in the chemicals, other than strain.

But I'm pretty sure I know what you mean - that's how our mexican schwag is, when you can still find it here. Without being a pothead, you'd hardly know it's more than a distantly related species. And I rather like the effects of it, which TEND to be quite different from most of the good stuff we get, but again, I'm pretty sure it's just their strain, sometimes the good stuff gives that feeling - IF you only smoke a tiny bit - maybe some things decay more quickly, I don't know, but I can't see it being hard to replicate. Or, you know, just grow a plant...

Many people smoke so much, even with no tolerance, that while you notice different things about the effects (not bad things, to be sure), you totally miss some very nice feelings - including being calm and not feeling like your brain's on a roller coaster. I'm often good with one single hit, even with schwag.


I was looking for a clip of chong saying "hey this is great man", but couldn't find it, so you'll have to settle for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_EDN7K2Kc

 

Well yes and no.
By allowing the plant to die in ground, it uses the sugars and chlorophyll and that affords a completely different flavor and color.
Then the natural degradation of the chemical constituents that provide the effects is different than what you get nowadays. I get indica that gets me stoned, but in all honesty it isn't the same.
I don't know the entire chemistry behind it but I do know that it makes a big difference in the ratios of the different cannabinoids as many of them are the product of degradation of THC and other cannabinoids.
It is the very basic difference of picking the plant while it is still green and actively growing or after it has already completed it's life cycle.

I really prefer the flavor and mellow spicy flavor of old school Thai or Colombian, Acapulco, etc over the chlorophyll laden, often harsh and "green" tasting stuff that seems to be the only way anyone knows how to cure their weed.

I think I'm gonna let the few little girls I have going live out their lives naturally this season and see what I end up with.

 

If you're able to find it, you might just be happy with imported schwag or mids - though you've got to find the less bricked stuff, to enjoy it.

You mean a taste that has something more in common with mild tobacco, but still distinctly weed (and none of the toxic feel or anything)? An overall much more mellow kind of stuff, that begs to be rolled? I'd never figured out what it was that did it, but now that you mention it, that absolutely seems like it.

 

Who can afford dro? I gotta smoke schwag for a few more years. Actually i vape, but its still only schwag because i am poor.

 

I definatly find weed fromm a dispensery has a milder high. where as the stuff I get on the street gets me nice and stoned.